AR Lessons

I created this lesson for my grade 9's to simplify Formal Analysis using the Principles of Design. There are very specific ways to talk about art and this is it! It is very hard to teach this to grade 9's, therefore this booklet helps to do it in the most logical way! After each Principle, I show famous paintings and we critique them one by one using the Principle.

I use this for my grade 9's within the first few weeks of the semester. I have included the Elements of Art Booklet (that is printable so the students can write in the blanks and draw where necessary) as well as the Teacher Copy below it. This will only take 1.5 periods. Before I introduce the Elements, I play a game with them first. One partner has a simple object drawn on a page (I made these) and they have to describe it to their partner to draw, without pointing at or correcting the draw

I use this to introduce art pencils and pencil techniques to my grade 9's in the first week of school. After I teach the different parts of a sphere, I use a white ball & lamp to show how shadows move with light, and how reflected light works using different coloured paper placed underneath the ball.

This Grade 9 sketchbook assignment is used after introducing pencil rendering techniques in class.