Warm and Cool Dragons 2D Art - 10/16-10/25

10/16-10/23
Warm and Cool Dragons

Objectives:
SWBAT create their own dragon on paper using either warm or cool colors, after analyzing different dragon styles and features.

Essential Skill To Be Mastered: Students will understand warm colors, reds, yellows, and oranges, and cool colors, blues, purples and greens, and use that understanding to create either a warm or cool dragon.

I Can Statement: I can create a dragon using warm and cool colors.

Teaching Strategy: To start this project I show a PowerPoint presentation and discuss how long dragons have been around, or written about or drawn and the different countries that use dragons in symbolic ways or even believe in dragons. We look at different pictures of dragons painted or drawn in cool or warm colors. I printed handouts that showed different ways to draw dragon parts, like the head, feat, and wings. I model the different steps in the handout about how to draw a dragon head and then use guided practice throughout the project. I assign a reflection essay at the end of the project and have the instructions written on the front board.

Materials:
Dragon PowerPoint presentation
12x18 drawing paper
Pencil
Colored pencils and/or markers

Instructions:
1. Talk about warm and cool colors and the type of affect they can have in a drawing or painting and how the colors can lend to a certain visual mood.
2. Show presentation of dragons either painted or drawn using either warm or cool colors. Discuss how dragons are mythical creatures but in some countries people claim to have dragon ancestors.
3. Model different ways to draw different dragon features.
4. Have students practice drawing different dragon features, like the head, snout, body, tail, and scales, before they start their dragon.
5. Students may draw a complete dragon or just the head and torso.
6. When coloring the dragon have students use more than one cool or warm color.
7. After coloring the dragon have students color the background a solid color that is either black or the opposite of the dragon colors. For example, if the dragon is done in warm colors, then the background could be colored either black or a cool color.

Modifications: Give one-on-one modeling instructions while student is following along. Guide student in picking out the correct color combinations.