Students will be able to describe and create an organic line.
Students will be able to understand a variety of watercolor painting techniques.
Students will be able to name and use a color family in creating their painting.

1. Ink (watered down a tad)
2. Straws
3. Paper
4. Brushes
5. Watercolor Paint
6. Plastic wrap, water mister optional
7. Fine line black pens

Need these materials? Visit Blick!

1. Paint with a brush a trunk for your tree with ink.
2. Add a little "puddle" of ink where you want a branch with your brush.
3.Use your straw (without touching straw into the ink) to gentle blow the organic line branches where they might go. (allow pauses to BREATHE! 15 min)
Day Two:
4. Demonstrate different watercolor techniques: wet on wet, tap splatter, water misting to mix, plastic wrap texture
Show color family options: warm colors, analogous colors (ex. violet, red, orange), primary colors
5. Students choose a technique to create the foliage for their trees.
6. Paint ground or add fall leaves at tree base
Day Three:
Optional have students go back into tree foliage with a black pen to find variance in color and outline the organic shapes created. (I tell the students to let their hand wiggle like they are nervous when outlining)
Little splatters of color can become falling leaves with the addition of a line for a stem.
Outline contour of grass and fallen colors at ground level.
Add optional elements like fence, pumpkins, or other elements that might be around the tree.

Students will be assessed based on a rubric.
Students will submit their artist statement and write about their favorite elements of their project, elements or items they would like to do differently, what did they learn from the lesson?

Blog post of steps in the process:
http://capitolofcreativity.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/fall-painting.html

Artsonia Student Gallery:
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=551372

Feel free to contact me with questions or comments on this resource.
http://capitolofcreativity.weebly.com/index.html

[K-4] Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

[5-8] Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas

[5-8] Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

[5-8] Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work

[9-12 Proficient] Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

[9-12 Proficient] Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art

[K-4] Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning

[5-8] Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks

[5-8] Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks

[K-4] Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks

[5-8] Students describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

[5-8] Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

Balance, Color/Value, Contrast, Line, Shape, Texture

Ink, Marker, Watercolor

Science