Introduction to Learning Packets
Visual Exercises
Line analysis

All Levels: Introduction to classroom activities; portfolio is made to hold student artwork for 1 year (lamination recommended)

Mary Cassatt

…American Impressionism

Color, Line

All Levels: Drawing hats, portraits, contrast

All Levels - Pastel strokes

Beg. Level: Hats (cut and mounted pastel)

Int./Adv. Levels: Portrait with hat (cut and mounted pastel)

Rosa Bonheur

French

Line, Texture, Value

Beg. Level: Animal Realism, Texture

Int. Level: Realism, Texture, Symmetry

Adv. Level: Realism, Texture, Contrast

Chalk Drawing

Beg. Level: Rabbits

Int. Level: Cats and/or Dogs

Adv. Level: Lions and/or Tigers

American

Shape, Balance

All Levels: Abstract shapes; shapes for

mobiles; the expressive quality of shape

Beg. Level: Stabile, black paper base, colored

paper, wire top

Int./Adv. Levels: Mobiles, Calder style; wire, colored paper

Paul Cezanne

French

Shape

All Levels: Using shape instead of pictures to show meaning

Int./Adv. Levels: Cezanne’s use of shape

All Levels: Still life collage (cut shapes) using Cezanne’s basic shapes

Russian

Line, Color, Pattern

All Levels: Sketches for art activity; color

value, pattern feeling

All Levels: Village outline on colored paper

With oil pastel, shapes filled with pattern

French

Line

Beg. Level: Drawing practice

Int./Adv. Levels: Showing depth using

perspective, overlapping, location, line

Right Brain Drawing

Beg. Level: Bow with colored chalk/marker

Int./Adv. Levels: Ballerina or horseman with colored chalk and marker highlights

French

Color

All Levels: Colors, South Sea subject matter

All levels: Oil pastel on black background

Beg./Int. Levels: Palm trees

Adv. Level: Tahitian landscape

Katsushika Hokusai
& the Asian Brush

Japanese

Line, composition

All levels: Chinese writing, bamboo drawing, simple composition

All levels: Bamboo brush strokes (black tempera “ink”), bamboo composition on white paper

American

Value

Beg. Level: Value scale, color value

Int. Level: Line value, crosshatching

Adv. Level: Inventing value with line

Beg./Int. Levels: Cut paper and crayon seascapes using black and white values

Adv. Level: Value with drawing pencils from Homer small prints

Mexican

Color, Texture

All Levels: Drawing parrots, leaves and fruit with texture. Emphasis on composition.

Int./Adv. Levels: Add inscriptions

Oil Pastel on Colored Papers

Beg. Level: Parrot and leaves

Int. Level: Parrot, fruit, leaves, and flags

Adv. Level: Parrot, fruit, and leaves with inscriptions

Swiss

Line, Color, Texture

All Levels: Movement of the eye through shape, line, color, texture and pattern

Black Crayon Resist with Tempera Wash

Beg. Level: Fish

Int. Level: Neighborhoods

Adv. Level: Tree houses

American

Shape

Beg./Int. Levels: Tool shapes; flat and shaded shapes, overlapping and depth

Adv. Level: Composition; overlapping, color balance and depth

Beg./Int. Levels: Collage using tool shapes with paper and marker

Adv. Level: Cityscape collage using tissue and starch

French

Shape, Color

Beg. Level: Abstract sea shapes

Int./Adv. Levels: Positive and negative shapes, abstract shapes, creating

sea shapes for art activity

All levels: Paper cutouts with sea life motif;

drawing with scissors

Int./Adv. Levels: Emphasizes positive and negative shapes

Spanish

Shape, Line

All levels: Simplifying details, combining abstract shapes, drawing, and imagination

All levels: Abstract drawing (marker) with paper cutouts

Int./Adv. Levels: Tempera powder background with abstract shapes

Dutch

Balance

All Levels: Shape, color, line, and value combine to balance designs

Adv. Level: Repeated texture added to create rhythm and movement

Paper Collage

All Levels: Primary colors and cut shapes combine with lines to form abstract compositions

French

Color

Beg. Level: Primary and secondary colors

Int. Level: Color wheel, color feelings

Adv. Level: Color wheel, color schemes, color vocabulary

Tempera, paper plate palette, and Q-tips

All Levels: Impressionistic color wheels and trees

American

Color, Value

Beg. Level: Color value, hill drawing

(practice for art activity)

Int./Adv. Levels: Color value, scaling technique, shading

Beg. Level: New Mexico hills; black crayon, and paint crayons

Int./Adv. Levels: Enlarged flower drawing in

black crayon, paint crayon values

Spanish

Composition

All Levels: Use line, shape, color, and texture to create musical, cubist compositions.

Black Marker and Chalk Stain

All Levels: Musical instrument right-brain drawing, with cutting and arranging into Cubist compositions

Dutch

Value, Space

Beg. Level: Light and dark, shadows

Int./Adv. Levels: Highlights, shading, and

Shadows on the basic forms

Rembrandt’s Light

All Levels: 17th Century Holland Landscape

White chalk on black paper with oil pastel details

American

Detail

Beg. Level: Drawing desert plants

Int./Adv. Levels: Backgrounds, foregrounds, drawing desert plants

(preparatory for activity)

Colored chalk and paper

Beg. Level: Desert sky background with torn

mountain silhouette, black crayon details

Int./Adv. Levels: Desert plant from Learning Packet on chalk desert; marker details

French

Color

Beg./Int. Levels: Color contrast, landscape drawing, reflections

Adv. Level: Color contrast, reflections

Impressionist shading technique

All levels: Impressionistic landscape in rainbow colors using paint crayons and reflections

African-American

Patterns

All Levels: Quilt designs inspire a geometrical look at symmetry and

balance using color and shape.

Oil Pastel with Cut Paper Shapes

All Levels: Visual story telling combined with cut-paper quilt design, and patterning

French

Color

Beg. Level: Light and dark, warm and cool colors

Int./Adv. Levels: Preparatory boat sketching for classroom activity

All levels: Sandpaper & paper

Beg. Level: Boat

Int. Level: Boat/reflection

Adv. Level: Landscape/seascape

French

Line

Beg./Int. Levels: Horizontal and vertical line design; using line instead of pictures

to show meaning

Adv. Level: Lautrec character sketch

All Levels: Lautrec-type character using water-color wash and crayon resist technique

Dutch

Texture

Beg. Level: Drawing with texture

Int. Level: Drawing, inventing, and using texture

Adv. Level: Drawing and creating movement with texture

Oil Pastels

Beg. Level: Textured spirals & foreground

Int./Adv. Levels: Fore, middle and background

and textured spirals

Adv. Level: Adds a village

Italian

Line, Value

All levels: Outline aided drawing, simple line copying, looking closely

Highlighting - Chalk

Shading - Crayon

Andrew Wyeth

American

Perspective, Color, Line

Beg. Level: Tree drawing; shadows

Int. Level: Tree sketching

Adv. Level: One point perspective

Beg. Level: Landscape with tree and shadow;

special crayon technique

Int./Adv. Levels: Landscape with colored pencil technique,

Adv. Level: Perspective and marker detail