Lesson Plan :Drawing/Painting Assignment (Jan 22)

Project: Diptych
A diptych is usually a pair of images attached together. In this assignment, the student must create a pair of images using the drawing and painting medium using their favourite animal

First Panel:
Get a picture of a favourite animal and draw it with pencil and/or pencil crayons from observation. A picture of a real animal from a photo, book, magazine, or the internet.

Second Panel:
Paint the animal in watercolour doing whatever you like. You can paint the animal, running, asleep, playing with other animals, in the jungle, in outer space, etc…

Materials needed:
Two sheets of thicker paper or watercolour paper
Pencil
Pencil crayons
Watercolour
Brushes
Container for water (yogurt container)
Palette/ flat plastic top (for paint)

Justification:
-provides learning from observation and accuracy
-teaches the learner to work with different materials
-allows the learner to also work from the imagination and to draw from what they've seen and what they know
-provides the child with ownership for their work because of choice with favourite animal
-second portion provides the children to display understanding or interpretation for the animals new action/position