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Art Folder Lesson
Plan
1. Title
Art Folder and Two Point Perspective. The lesson is designed for an eighth grade Art Foundations course. This lesson takes approximately two 80 minute class sessions on a block system schedule.
2. Main Points
a) The art folder serves several purposes: it may be an art project on it own, it is a receptacle for storing other art work, and at the end of the course, it may serve as a portfolio for one's best work.
b) Form and function are both important in the creation of a functional art project. Form gives shape to creativity and intelligence supports the orderly function of the piece.
c) Graphic design is an art genre that may be used in the making of fine art and commercial art.
3. Objectives for Learning
By the end of this lesson, students will :
a) know how to create storage units for their art work
b) have basic graphic design skills
c) know how to create a 3-D effect on a flat surface
d) understand and be able to draw in two point perspective
e) have more knowledge and experience using the principles and elements of design
4. Materials
Main points chart, blackboard, straight edge, ruler, medium weight poster board, colored markers, printing stamp
5. Review
I will review one point perspective, including the concepts of horizon line and vanishing point with a visual demonstration on the blackboard. Ask students to describe other art folders they have made.
6. Introductory focus
Introduce Escher and his work as an artist for the week. His unique use of multiple perspectives is fascinating. Show Roy Lichtenstein's work as an example of commercial art techniques used to create fine art.
7. Wholeness for the Lesson
Making art involves a process often involves many steps. By themselves the separate steps have some value and purpose, but taken together, each step carried out during the making of an artwork becomes even more valuable and necessary because of their contribution to the whole piece. The completed project then takes on a life of its own. We can say that the whole becomes greater even than the sum of the parts.
8. Purpose
Making an art folder gives you a place for storing and organizing future work. The visual look to the folder gives you experience with graphic design, lettering styles, and using two point perspective.
9. Procedures
a) Part 1. 20 minutes - Present overview of the entire lesson. Introduce two artists, Escher and Lichtenstein and their work
b) 30 minutes - Review and do blackboard demonstration on one point perspective and relevant terms. Introduce the art folder project. Write out the project objectives to one side of the blackboard. Demonstrate two point perspective as it is to be used on the top side of the art folder. Last 5 minutes offer a water and restroom break
c) 25 minutes - Hand out poster board paper, rulers, pencils and erasers. Have the students fold poster board in half and put their names on the back side. Have the students make the necessary measurements and mark their folders using the illustration on the board as a reference. Have sketch out lettering styles they may want to use for their names and the word "Art". Once they come up with their lettering style, they may start lettering their folder
d) Finish the lesson with having one of the students speak out the main points that were covered. Have students put away materials and place their folders on the storage shelve for their period.
e) Part 2. 20 Review objectives listed from the day before. Present overview of what will be covered today. Give a lettering demonstration on the blackboard showing how to create a 3-D effect. Discuss the use of colored markers and adding other design elements such as pattern to the overall look.
f) 45 minutes - Individual studio time. Student may share and show each other work in progress. Offer a water and restroom break in the middle of this time period.
g) 10 minutes - Have students stop where they are, tape the sides of the folders closed. Students may walk around the classroom to the different work tables to look at each others folders. As students finish the project give them a self-evaluation handout to fill out and turn in.
h) 5 minutes - Speak out main points and put away materials
10. Fulfillment
Towards the end of the second class period, students will be finishing their folders. Taking a few minutes for students to look at each others work will allow them to make comments. I will emphasize the unique way in which everyone approaches the same project. If students have 2-D art work from other projects, they may now store them in their art folders.
11. Closure
At the end of each class session, main points will be read out. At the end of the second session, I will remind students to make sure their folders have all the required components for the project.
12. Homework
Students who have not finished their art folders by the end of the second session may work and finish it during study hall or at home. It needs to be finished by the next day's class.
13. Assessment strategies
This project will be assessed by the successful completion of all the requirements being included in the design of the folder: use of two point perspective, correct placement of the word "Art" and the student's name, use of color, use of a hand made stamp from a previous printing lesson to decorate the four corners, and turning in a completed self-evaluation form.