Washington Township Middle School
Lesson Plan Form
Teacher:
Jeffrey Hull
Content Area: NJCCCS/CCSS:
Talented Art 8 1.3.8.D.2
Type of Lesson
DQ2: Introducing New Knowledge
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Dom. Element(s):
Unit Goal(s):
Students will know portrait painting.
DQ3: Deepening or
Practicing
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Dom. Element(s):
Week of:
10/5/2015
DQ4: Generating & Testing Hypotheses
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Dom. Element(s):
Daily Objectives:
Monday: Students will know vocabulary and History of artist Horace Pippin. DQ2-E6
Tuesday: Students will know narrative. DQ2-E6
Wednesday: Students will know facial proportions. DQ2-E10
Thursday: Students will know characteristics of Acrylic painting. DQ2-E6
Friday: Students will know acrylic painting. DQ2-E8
Lesson Activities/Instructional Strategies
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Students will be shown PowerPoint of the work of
Horace Pippen.
Outsider Art,
Narrative, and portraiture will be discussed.
Classically trained portrait artist
(same time period)
John Singer
Class will discuss narrative in Pippin’s painting A Country
Doctor: A Night
Call.
Students will be asked to tell the story of the person who influenced and inspired their life in a special way.
Students will
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Students will be shown the use of facial guidelines via teacher demonstration.
Students will be given facial proportion wkst.
Class will discuss sketching facial proportions using guidelines on paper.
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Students will be shown set up of tools for acrylic painting. Class will be shown transferring sketched compositions onto canvas board with pencil. Light drawing and no value will be stressed. Simple shapes in
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Teacher demonstration for acrylic paint: students will be shown washes, painting alla prima (all at once), and glazing techniques.
Reasons for each technique

Sargent’s work will be compared and contrasted with that of the Pippin portraits.
Students will discuss major differences with work of similar time period artist work.
Vocabulary for portrait paintings will be discussed and documented on Vocabulary wkst.
***HW: Photo of person who greatly influences and inspires in student’s life.
Washington Township Middle School
Lesson Plan Form document the relationship and tell about the person’s life through writing.
Students may recall a moment, a day, or the personality of the chosen individual and document it.
Students will be required to write 3 paragraphs
(introductory, body, and closing paragraphs) and will use a thesis sentence in the introduction.
Thumbnail sketching will be shown and students will begin sketches for compositions individually.
Monitoring and check for understanding will take place.
Materials to begin portraits will be organized.
Using guidelines for proportions, students will begin drawing portraits of chosen person on paper.
Monitoring and check for understanding will take place. composition will be shown.
Teacher will stress minimal sketching as to not have cloudy canvas due to too much graphite.
Students will begin drawing individually.
Monitoring and check for understanding will take place. will be discussed.
Stylistic emphasis will be placed on
Pippin’s painting style based on simple shapes.
Starting the painting will be shown. Students will begin painting using washes on drawing so that later layers and color blocking can take palace.
Students will use order to paint:
1.Washes
2. Painting
Directly
3. Wet on wet
(in small amounts)
Students will begin painting individually.
Monitoring and check for understanding will take place.
Adaptations for Co-Teachers:
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Resources and Materials:
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Washington Township Middle School
Lesson Plan Form
Pippin PowerPoint, Pippen history and narrative wkst, Facial proportion Wkst, Pippin vocabulary, 3H pencils, canvas board, brushes, acrylic paint, palettes, Matte medium
Evaluation / Assessment:
Formal Critique
Homework / Assignment(s):
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