Time Duration: 1 class period

Unit Title: Drawing/Painting

Lesson Title: Space

 Objectives of Lesson

Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Create space with different sized and overlapping shapes.

2. Demonstrate an understanding of space by successfully completing activities.

 Materials Needed

1. Sketchbook, drawing pencil, and eraser.

2. Construction paper, scissors, and glue sticks.

3. Watercolor, brush, and buckets of water or brush and ink.

 Instructional Procedure with Approximate Time Line

 1. Anticipatory Set (5 minutes)

Actual space is a three-dimensional volume that can be empty or filled with objects. It has width, height, and depth. Space that appears three-dimensional in a two-dimensional painting is an illusion that creates a feeling of actual depth. Various techniques can be used to show such visual depth and space.

Sculptures, architecture, and various craft pieces occupy actual or real space. You are aware of actual space in a large room or in an open landscape. If objects or people overlap in a painting, we sense space between them. If overlapping is combined with size differences, the sense of space is greatly increased.

Linear space is a way of organizing objects in space. One-point perspective is used if the artist is looking along a street or directly at the side of an object. Two-point perspective is used when looking directly at the front corner of a box, building, automobile, or other form. Combing two-point perspective with light and shadow greatly increases the sense of space.

Aerial perspective is a way of using color or value (or both) to show space or depth. Distant elements appear lighter in value, have less details, and less intense colors.

2. Activities (35 minutes)

Activities are to be done on separate sketchbook pages, not back to back.

• Using construction paper, cut out people shapes, animal shapes, flowers, or fruit shapes in different sizes. Cluster them together in groups in your sketchbook placing the larger ones below or on top of the smaller ones or both. You have developed a sense of space. Glue the pieces down and title the page "Space".
• Using watercolors, paint mountain shapes in different values of one color. Paint the lightest mountain shapes in the background and the darkest mountain shapes in the foreground. This will clearly illustrate "Aerial Perspective" (title).

3. Assessment

0 points = Activity not found or done incorrectly. Activity incomplete or no title.

5 points = Activity done partly correct. Improve and turn in again.

10 points = Activity correct. Student shows understanding of concept.

Lesson taken from Elements and Principles of Design Posters, Teacher’s Guide, by Crystal Productions.