Lesson At A Glance

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15 Min – Draw cartoon pigs using PDF

10 Min – Draw using tickle lines.

5 Min – Set up for tempera paints

5 Min – Review mixing colors

&30 Min – Paint pig & end with black outlines.

5 Min – Everyone helps

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Greet students as they come in and help them choose a chair.

Kneel down so that you are on their level. Bending over emphasizes the differences in your height, while kneeling makes them feel more important. Have tape and marker ready so you can stick some tape on the table by each student and write their name on it as they sit down.

Encourage students to work with one piece of paper for a while. If someone uses the phrase, “free draw”, explain that artists’ choice is something only artists can do, while free-draw is something anyone can do. You want to use the phrase to elevate the students’ expectations of their work.

Everyone should take their time with the work and make a finished piece of art. Limiting the paper can also help kids focus on the work. If someone finishes in super-fast time, ask them what more they can do to the existing paper. Ask again several times – unless they appear overly frustrated; then you can allow them to move on to a new work.

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Students will begin with circle practice. Then they’ll copy the simple shapes found in the pig handout to draw a pig.

Take a moment to practice drawing a circle in slow-motion, and going around and around the same circle several times. Students can use the practice circle or begin with a new sheet of paper.

Students will draw 1 or 2 more pig cartoons, making each one different in at least one or two ways. Below is a list of different emotions and expressions the pigs can have. Feel free to demo a few of them to your students or just read them off to give them some inspiration.

It’s ok to just do the face of the pig. You can use these to fill time or skip them if you’re running behind.

Here are some ways to make your cartoons have expressions using cartoon symbols:

• Make one sad or silly. 
  • Sad – upside-down smile
  • Sad – tear and eyebrows up in center (worried)
  • silly – one eye different than the other
  • silly – wavy mouth – tongue out
• Make the other one angry or arguing
  • angry – eyebrows down in center
  • angry – gritting teeth or upside-down smile
  • surprised – mouth open – big eyes
  • ray lines (short dashes around head all pointing outwards from the head) these are often drawn around a sun, but around a head, it makes a character seem more of what their expression is. Add ray lines to make your pig more angry, or more surprised.

Use the slideshow below to illustrate these symbols.

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Make sure each student has a pig reference to draw from. Set up photos on cheasels (cardboard stands) so students can easily look up and see the reference while drawing.

Encourage drawing lightly but do not worry about it. This will all be covered up by our paint in the next few steps. Once their drawings are complete, be sure that everyone has their names on the back of the paper.

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Brushes should be nylon for springiness and durability. Round brushes are the most versatile.

Paint list:

• Black
• Red
• Magenta
• Green
• Blue
• Aqua Blue
• White
• Yellow
• Brown

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If using take-out trays, there are two sections for your paints. The lid is good for mixing colors and they other side is where you place and “get” your paints. Remind students that they only mix on the mixing side. This keeps the paints from getting too messy and muddy. You can use two paper or styrofoam plates instead. One is for getting fresh paints, and the other is for mixing two or three paints together to invent a new color.

You can also have bowls or trays that everyone shares for Getting colors.

Today, everyone will mix special colors together as you tell them to. Before students begin painting their pigs, they need to make 2 colors.

Students will mix a shadow color. To make the shadow color (in a new, second spot), they will make a darker version of the pink, using less white with the magenta. Ok, rinse and wipe off the brush really well. Then dip the tippy tip just barely into the green, and add just a tiny bit of the green to the darker pink color. It should become brownish.

Look at your picture to see where there are shadows. We are making some pretty simple colors for our pigs today

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Let kids enjoy painting. Background colors and patterns are their choice.  Encourage mixing yellows, whites and greens, and blues, for vegetations, and white with blue for sky. End with black if artists want outlines.

Early finishers can paint a second pig portrait or try using pastels for it. If students are switching to a different medium like pastels, have them clean up their work area and put all painting supplies away first.

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• Empty water containters
• Super-wash brushes if used
• Put art supplies away (sop up runny paint before disposing of palette paper)
• Wipe tables & toss trash
• Remove any smocks (last)
• Check for items on floors and tables

• Try to get photos of your student’s artwork. Find a good spot for quick lighting without highlights or shadows from your hands and device. Ideally in-between two strong lights on each side.

Make sure you have enough paint in all the colors, and bowls, plates, and/or trays.

Print all of your PDFs from the lesson plan and cut any references apart as needed.

Week 8: Shape Hunters

Students are introduced to an important design element, The Most Important Spot, (emphasis). We hunt for shapes, using tracing paper to capture them from photos. Students will also work with warm vs. cool colors using oil pastels.

Week 9: Just Line Around All Day

Students will spend the whole day creating and working with lines: line inventing; color line art; charcoal line art; backwards line art (white on black paper); and a line art game.