Paper Ribbons Activity

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Lesson Title: Paper Ribbons

Grade Level: High School Art 3
Content Area: Visual Arts
Time To Complete: Two 90-minute class periods
Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able to apply materials, techniques, and
processes with skill, confidence, and sensitivity as they
create a graphite drawing.
Students will be able to se a variety of art materials, tools,
and equipment in a skillful, safe, and responsible manner
as they create a graphite drawing.
Students will be able to describe ways that different
materials, techniques, and processes evoke different
responses as they create a graphite drawing
Students will be able to recognize, describe, and analyze
the elements and principles of design and other
compositional structures as they complete a graphite
drawing showing space and value.
Students will be able to create works of visual art that use

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gunpowder, painted and printed
with food, and a variety of organic
substances such as blood.
He was well known for his depiction
of words and phrases.

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Your drawing should show:

Composition:
The placement or arrangement of visual
elements on a picture plane
Cast shadow:
A shadow that is cast or thrown by an object
or form onto an adjacent or nearby plane.
Overlapping:
When one object covers a part of a second
object, the first seems to be closer

Example:

Drawing by: Abigail Merre

Materials/Description:
Each student will need access to:
Scratch paper for constructing ribbon
model
Piece of final drawing paper
Drawing pencils, erasers, blending tools

Students will create a drawing of

ribbons that demonstrates a full
range of value.

Student Name:
Date:
Block:

Art 3: Paper Ribbons

Your drawing should meet all of the following criteria.

_______ ( 5 pts.) Student has Name (2 pts.), Date (1 pt.), and Class (2 pts.) on back of
Drawing
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing has strong composition. Drawing fills the paper.
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows highlights.
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows light, medium, and dark shades.
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows cast shadows.
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows gradation of values.
_______ ( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows space with overlapping ribbons.
_______( 10 pts. ) Students drawing shows craftsmanship, attention to neatness.
_______( 10 pts. ) Students ribbons have clean, neat, edges/ends.
_______( 15 pts. ) Student completed the project on time, by ___________________
________ TOTAL

Additional Comments:

Abigail Merrell, Fall 2014, September 10, 20