THIS LITTLE CLASS OF MINE
  • Home
  • Contact Me
  • Lesson Plans

Zentangle pumpkins

10/18/2016

2 Comments

 
Picture
At the end of last semester, I taught my classes about zentangling with a zentangled animal silhouette project.  It went really well and they LOVED using the pen and ink.

This semester, I knew I wanted to incorporate zentangling again. I ended up getting really sick and had to leave part of this project with a sub. Surprisingly, zentangles are pretty easy to leave with a sub---yay! But I did not have a chance to let them try out pen and ink. Boo. 

​Here is what I had posted on the board:

Picture
Here is what I left for my sub:
​
  1. Today students will be drawing pumpkins! I set up a pumpkin still life by the red bulletin board, you can point it out if students need help visualizing how to draw pumpkins. (Early finishers could also sit at the white table and create a contour line drawing of the still life. I put felt tip markers and white paper on the white table just in case…..)
  2. On a piece of white paper, students may choose a composition 2 or 3 pumpkins overlapping. You can demonstrate this on the board or point out my example. One of our vocabulary words is OVERLAP, so you might explain that it means that one object is in front of another object so that it is partially covering the one that is behind.
  3. After drawing the pumpkins, students should add contour lines that start at the pumpkin’s stem and follow the curve of the surface of the pumpkins. Students can draw the pumpkins with pencil, and then trace in sharpie. If they mess up, make them use the back to retry, before giving them a new paper.
  4. After drawing the outline, students can begin ZENTANGLING in each section of the surface of the pumpkin using SHARPIES. Students can use skinny sharpies for this step. A zentangle is a design made up of structured patterns. I have a packet for each student to look at for ideas and a couple of books with tons of zentangle ideas. If their designs are too simple, they can go in and add more CONTRAST or VARIETY to make them look more interesting. Students should work quietly, zen implies a quiet focus and should be calming and relaxing. (6th graders should not wander the room to talk to friends. I do let them get a pencil, ruler or a sharpie if they need those items, but they shouldn’t be at another table for no reason). 
  5. Make sure names are on their papers. Remind them not to use sharpie on the back for their names because this will show through to the front and mess up their drawing. 
  6. *Next time* we will color the background and attach to a frame. Students will also have a little more time to finish zentangling the pumpkins if they don’t finish today. 6th graders will probably do better with this because we did zentangling last year. I don’t want them to color the pumpkin, the plan is to leave it black and white, and only color the background so if you allow them to get out crayons/markers if they finish early, make sure they don’t color the pumpkin. I want to explain how to use secondary colors on the background.
  7. Paper is 8X11 if you need to cut more.
  8. Early finishers may either zentangle a bookmark or draw the still life at the white table.
 

Picture
When I got back from being sick, I explained how they could add more value to some of their mini optical illusions and to the edges of the pumpkins to make them look more round or 3-D. The ones that added the shading in pencil did a great job. I think I even spent a few minutes at the beginning of that class making a value scale in their sketchbooks and shading a sphere---just for practice!

I also stressed the importance of adding CONTRAST. I encouraged them to at least make a couple of their patterns BOLD like a checkerboard. 
​
After zentangling, they were to color the background with SECONDARY colors. They could use a monochoromatic color scheme or a pattern, but I took all of the reds, pinks, yellows, grays, browns and etc. out of the crayon basket. Its amazing how beautiful the secondary colors are! I told them that I would keep yellow green, golden rod, red violet, and red orange in there to give them a variety of 'purples' 'oranges' and 'greens'. They also had to plan out what color they would use to 'matt' their artwork and they had to select a different shade of green, purple, and orange for their frames. They painted a design on the frame with black at a special painting station. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
And a shoutout to the Tap and Glue caps I debuted on this project. It was the first time many of my students had used these caps. Some were elated! Some were perplexed. Regarless, I used half as much glue! And only a few mishaps for the ones who were absent the day I explained how to use them--who tried to take the top off and spilled glue EVERYWHERE. 

If students finished early, I had them work at a drawing station. I set up a STILL LIFE of pumpkins and gourds. Once again, I did not let them draw with pencil first, and I was really happy with the results!
Picture
Picture
Picture
2 Comments
    PictureWelcome!

    Mrs. Mitchell

    Art teacher from Missouri. 

    Instagram
    Add to Flipboard Magazine.

    Archives

    March 2021
    April 2020
    November 2019
    July 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    September 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013

    Categories

    All
    1st Day Of School
    1st Grade
    3d
    Abstract Art
    Alcohol Ink Tiles
    Alpacas
    Animal Art
    Animation
    Architecture
    Art Centers
    Art For Kids Hub
    Art History
    Art Hub For Kids
    Art Room
    Art Show
    Art Teacher Conference
    Bell Ringer
    Birds
    Blending
    Bunnies
    Cardboard
    Chalk Pastels
    Chalk Stencil
    Charcoal
    Choice Based
    Christmas
    Chuck Close
    Classroom
    Clay
    Club Day
    Collage
    Color Diffusing Paper
    Colored Pencil
    Colored Pencils
    Construction Paper Crayons
    Contest Art
    Creatures
    Crystal Bridges
    Design
    Dice Games
    Document Camera
    Dot Day
    Drawing
    Early Finishers
    Easter
    Emojis
    Fall
    Field Trip
    Food Art
    Foxes
    Green Screen
    Grid Drawing
    Group Challenge
    Halloween
    Haunted Houses
    Hearts
    Hermit Crab
    High School
    Human Form
    Ice Breaker
    Inspirational Posters
    Ipads
    Jim Dine
    Justand
    Killer Whales
    Kindergarten
    Landscape
    Lesson Plans
    Lettering
    Llamas
    Magazines
    Mandala
    Maori
    Markers
    Masks
    Matisse
    Metal
    Model Magic
    Mona Lisa
    Monster Trucks
    Mother's Day
    Mother's Day Card
    Mummies
    Mural
    Newspaper
    New Zealand
    Notan
    Observational Drawing
    Ocean Art
    Oil Pastel
    Oil Pastels
    Optical Illusions
    Origami
    Owls
    Painting
    Paper Weaving
    Pd
    Pencil Topper
    Perspective
    Pete The Cat
    Picasso
    Polar Bears
    Pop Art
    Portraits
    Printmaking
    Product Review
    Professional Development
    Quiver
    Reflection
    Reflective Teaching
    Room Tour
    Rooster
    Sea Horse
    Seals
    Sea Turtle
    Self Portrait
    Shading
    Shaving Cream Prints
    Shoes
    Sketchbooks
    Sloth
    Solar Eclipse
    Spinners
    Spring Conference
    Star Wars
    Statue Of Liberty
    Step-by-step
    Step By Step Drawing
    Step-by-step Drawing
    Still Life
    Stop Motion
    Story Board
    Sub Plans
    Summer School
    Symmetry
    Tab
    Teacher Appreciation Cards
    Technology
    Tempera Paint
    Tiny Food
    Tissue Paper
    Trees
    Tumbling Blocks
    Valentine's Day
    Warm Ups
    Watercolor
    Wax Resist
    Word Art
    Yellow Submarine
    Zentangle

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.