Students learned about the artist Wayne Thiebaud and his artwork for inspiration on this lesson!
This art lesson took (4) 40 minute art classes to finish.
Day 1:
Students were introduced to Wayne Thiebaud and viewed a PowerPoint on some of his artwork and learned about his life. Students folded a sheet of heavyweight tagboard in half horizontally, to create a crease to separate the table from the wall for their picture. They then drew various types of straight lines, (creating different lines from the wall and table the donut would be on) and colored in their stripes with a thick layer of oil pastel.
Day 2:
Students finished up their oil pastel background and if there was time, started drawing their donut.
Day 3:
Students painted the top section of their papers with one color liquid tempera paint and then immediately used a texture comb (using a recycled cut gift card) to scrape some of the paint off, creating new lines on their artwork and texture. They repeated the same process on the bottom half but painted using a different color. Once finished, they were left to dry until the following art class.
Day 4:
Students glued on half of a cut paper doilie along the crease. They drew a donut on separate 4×6” paper and colored with markers or colored pencils, then cut the donut out and glued on their doilie. For a final touch, students added puffy paint sprinkles all over their donuts to add even more texture!
One of my all time favorite lessons for 4th grade!
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