Mrs. Edwards art class
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  • Elements and principles of design
    • The elements of design >
      • Line
      • Shape & Form
      • Value
      • Color
      • Space
      • Texture
    • Principles of design >
      • Contrast
      • Balance
      • Proportion
      • Repetition
      • Emphasis
      • Unity
  • composition how to
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Hands and collage
      • Scratchboard
      • Zentngle boxes
  • Painting
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Color Wheel
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor candy
      • Gridding farm animals >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Portrait grid in opposite colors >
        • Acrylic Lesson 6 mini assignments
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Dynamic Hands
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Children's' book illustrations
      • Independent study #1
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Drawing II, III, IV
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Gridding farm animals
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Distortion art glitch
      • Printmaking
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Replicated eyes
      • Draped fabric
      • Deconstruction project
  • Sculpture
    • How to set up your sketchbook >
      • Color Wheel
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Big heads
      • Plaster forms
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Deconstruction project
      • Ceramic shoes
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Writing an artist statement
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • Color Wheel
    • Calendar assignments >
      • Rodeo
    • 3D AP >
      • Contemporary museum of craft
      • 3 D criteria
      • 3D AP Calendar
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me

Watercolor abstraction

Supply list:
  • Watercolors
  • micron pen
  • watercolor paper
  • water bowl
  • watercolor brushes round and flat, various sizes
  • paper towels
  • salt 
Essential question: What elements and principles of design will you use to complete this assignment?
 How will we know if they’ve learned it? 
Students will have a painting that shows their understanding of abstract art and the arrangement of elements and principles of design. 
What will we do if they don’t learn it?
Students will be re-taught and can utilized videos to re-work missing elements of their assignment. 
 What will we do if they have / have already learned?
Students can always go above and beyond the instructions to create a more challenging experience. 
My students understand and can… by the end of the lesson
Working with blending, layering, wash, wet-on-wet watercolor and incorporating pen & ink.  
Teks: 117.C (Knowledge and skills) (B) identify and understand the elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, form, space, and value, as the fundamentals of art in personal artwork; (C) identify and understand the principles of design, including emphasis, repetition/pattern, movement/rhythm, contrast/variety, balance, proportion, and unity, in personal artwork; (B) identify and understand the elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, form, space, and value, as the fundamentals of art in personal artwork; (C) identify and understand the principles of design, including emphasis, repetition/pattern, movement/rhythm, contrast/variety, balance, proportion, and unity, in personal artwork,
Grading Rubric:
  • 20pts Picture is taken by you, not from the internet or a magazine
  • 20pts A flat wash is apparent
  • 20pts No streaks
  • 20pts watercolor is translucent and not applied thickly
  • 20pts Craftsmanship, work is not sloppy, complete and created with intent.  
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  • Home
  • Elements and principles of design
    • The elements of design >
      • Line
      • Shape & Form
      • Value
      • Color
      • Space
      • Texture
    • Principles of design >
      • Contrast
      • Balance
      • Proportion
      • Repetition
      • Emphasis
      • Unity
  • composition how to
  • Art 1
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Creating a sketchbook
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Day of the dead sugar skull >
        • intro to ceramics: Clay termanology
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Winter/Holiday card
      • Rodeo (optional)
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Self portrait with a twist >
        • Drawing the face and gridding
      • Printmaking
      • Oil pastel flowers >
        • Oil pastel Rubric
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Perspective assignment >
        • Perspective worksheet
      • Hands and collage
      • Scratchboard
      • Zentngle boxes
  • Painting
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • Color Wheel
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor mandala
      • Watercolor candy
      • Gridding farm animals >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Portrait grid in opposite colors >
        • Acrylic Lesson 6 mini assignments
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Watercolor intro >
        • Watercolor project
      • Anatomy, mixed media multi medium
      • Rodeo
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Painting techniques
      • Oil painting a pear >
        • Oil Painting color theory
      • Oil painting reflective surfaces
      • Draped fabric
      • Naturally occuring patterns
      • Dynamic Hands
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Children's' book illustrations
      • Independent study #1
      • Independent study
    • Syllabus
  • Drawing II, III, IV
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • Color Wheel
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • portfolio design >
        • Blending Color Pencil
      • Gridding farm animals
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Rodeo
      • foreshortening
      • Graphic Novel illustration
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • Distortion art glitch
      • Printmaking
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Replicated eyes
      • Draped fabric
      • Deconstruction project
  • Sculpture
    • How to set up your sketchbook >
      • Color Wheel
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • 1st 9 weeks >
      • Name design drawing
      • 3 pinch pots
      • Big coil pots sgraffito
    • 2nd 9 weeks >
      • Cardboard city
      • Paper Mache Animal/creature wall mount
    • 3rd 9 weeks >
      • whimsical storefront dioramas
      • Big heads
      • Plaster forms
      • Creature heads
    • 4th 9 weeks >
      • Deconstruction project
      • Ceramic shoes
      • Soft sculpture
    • Syllabus
  • AP
    • Writing an artist statement
    • Contemporary museum of craft
    • How to set up your sketchbook
    • AP Art and Design Selected Works Rubric Terminology
    • 2 D drawing and Design
    • Color Wheel
    • Calendar assignments >
      • Rodeo
    • 3D AP >
      • Contemporary museum of craft
      • 3 D criteria
      • 3D AP Calendar
    • How to page >
      • Blending Color Pencil
  • VASE artwork
    • 2D
    • 3D
  • About me