4th Grade Still Lifes!

The line focus with 4th grade was contour lines. We talked about what a contour line was and spent the first day of the lesson practicing the elements of a still-life (overlapping, proportion, etc.) on dry erase boards. When the students came in next class, I had a still-life set out at their tables (yes, it included Yoshi) for them to draw. We briefly reviewed how to draw a still life and then I let the students begin drawing.

The next class, I briefly introduced value to the students and they colored in their still-life with colored pencil, using value when they could. The last class, we reviewed the different types of lines used in art. I instructed the students to lightly color in their table with a crayon or colored pencil and then add lines on top with marker to make a table cloth pattern. The background was filled in with different sections of patterns.