Time Duration: 1 class period

Unit Title: Drawing/Painting

Lesson Title: Movement

Objectives of Lesson

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

1. Use linear movement and visual movement with shapes and value.

2. Demonstrate understanding of movement by successfully completing the activities.

Materials Needed

1. Sketchbook, drawing pencil, and eraser.

2. Construction paper, scissors, and glue sticks.

3. Newspapers.

4. Ruler.

Instructional Procedure with Approximate Time Line

1. Anticipatory Set (5 minutes)

Movement creates the look and feeling of action. Visual movement is used by artists to direct viewers through their work, often to the focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines, edges, shapes, and colors within the works, but moves the eye most easily on paths of equal value.

Elongated shapes cause our eyes to move along them. If there is a strong center of interest, our eyes will be drawn to it like a magnet. Linear movement can be both direct (straight) or irregular (curvilinear). Our eyes follow lines and edges in sculpture, architecture, and paintings, as well as in nature.

2. Activities (35 minutes)

All activities should be done on separate sketchbook pages, not back to back.

• Cut out ten curved shapes about 1/2-inch wide and 3 inches long from various colored construction paper. Arrange them in your sketchbook with many of the pieces overlapping. Then cut out a rectangle about 1 inch wide and 2 1/2-inches long and a small dot of bright color. Place the rectangle with the dot at one end of it over the overlapping curved pieces for the focal point. Glue the pieces down. Title the page "Linear Movement".
• Select a photo from a newspaper that shows one-point perspective or draw a one-point perspective scene in your sketchbook. Glue the photo in your sketchbook. Then draw lines with a ruler from the foreground to the focal point to illustrate "Visual Movement" (title).
• Draw a bowl and use values from light to dark. The value changes cause our eye to move around the bowl. Title the drawing "Movement: Visual Passage".

3. Assessment

0 points = Activity incorrect or not found. Activity is not completed or no title.

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

10 points = Activity correct. Student demonstrates an understanding of the concept.

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