Warm up activity: Drawing with cross hatching and stippling

Drawing with cross hatching and stippling

Sarah McDougal & Brette Higgins

Lesson Overview:  This lesson will take place over a forty minute class period.  After a five minute slide show introduction showing examples of drawings that utilize cross hatching and stippling a demo will be given.  Demos will be given in two separate groups of about nine students on the making of such marks and will take about seven minutes.  After the demo students will be given twenty minutes to produce two drawings, one for each of the techniques introduced.  Through this activity students will gain a better understanding of how to use these techniques in drawing.  Students will also learn to draw from observation what they see rather than what they know.

Theme/ Subject Matter:  Conveying mass and volume through drawing

Learning Objectives

Students will learn:

-how to use cross hatching and stippling in drawings to convey mass and volume

-how to draw from observation what they see and now what they know

Rationale:  Through this activity students will gain a better understanding of how to utilize cross hatching and stippling in their drawings.  Students will also learn how artists use similar techniques in their works.  They will be able to understand and communicate about the techniques they have learned. Students will gain cognitive growth through experimentation and exploration of media and will learn that there can be more than one solution to a problem.

Standards Addressed:

Standard 1:  Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts

Performance Objective:  Students will create their own observational drawings.

Standard 2:  Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources

Performance Objective: Students will use different types of makers in order to practice cross hatching and stippling.

Standard 3:  Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art

Performance Objective:  Students will view various drawings made by artists that utilize the techniques they will be working with.

Standard 4:  Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts

Performance Objective:  Students will learn about the artists whose work is viewed as well as materials and processes they use.

Materials: Bic Mark-it markers, Precise fine and extra fine point markers, bristol board 6x6, worksheet on artist info/ vocabulary

Concepts and Vocabulary:

Cross hatching- to mark with two series of parallel lines that intersect.

Stipple- to paint, engrave or draw by means of small dots.

Mass- a body of matter with shape.

Volume- the amount of space an object occupies.

Instructional Procedures/ Strategies:

(Before class begins drawing materials will be placed at each table)

Motivation and exploration:  Slide show of examples (approx. 5 minutes).

Demonstration:  In two small groups of approximately 9 students demonstrations will be given on how to utilize cross hatching and stippling to convey mass and volume.  Also students will be shown how to sign and date their works like artists. Students will then be instructed on where to place finished works (front of class) and drawing materials (table in back) when done.  Entire demo should take about seven minutes.

Implementation:  Students will begin working on their drawings, spending a total of twenty minutes working on them.  Assistance and feedback will be offered to students during this time.  During this time students will also complete a worksheet about information covered in the slide show introduction.

Clean up: About five minutes before the end of class students will be reminded of the time and to wrap up work on their drawings.  One student from each table who is closest to the front will hand in works.  One student from each table closest to the back will gather drawing materials and place them in their respective cans placed on a table in the back of the room.