6th Grade Art Curriculum

ART CONCEPTS
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
VOCABULARY
Line, Shape & Form Proportion

-Students will be able to create a drawing using lines and shapes through observation and eye-hand coordination.

-Students will be able to recognize and apply simplistic line in this drawing style.

-Students will learn to develop the skill of composing a drawing by using basic compositional rules of overlap, run-off, change of size and direction of the shape

*Contour line

*Shape

*Continuous line

*Proportion

*Eye-hand coordination

*Composition

*Overlap

*Run-off

3-D Space Shape & Form

Balance

Positive and Negative Space

-Students will be able to create a 3-D sculpture using a variety of materials.

-Students will create a sculpture using the additive process.

-Students will use different media, techniques and processes.

-Students will identify positive and negative space and organize form and shape within those spaces a to create a 3-D sculpture.

-Students will explore artists or cultural styles of sculptures.

*3-dimensional form

*Positive and negative space

*Balance

*sculpture

*Height, Length and Width

*Additive process

Color Balance

Color Schemes

Color placement

Color repetition

-Students will be able to identify Color schemes:Primary, Secondary, Warm, Cool colors, complementary colors, and tints.

-Students will be able create balance through color placement and repetition.

-Students will be able to recognize and apply mixing techniques used to create color schemes.

-Students will be able to use appropriate clean-up techniques related to the color unit

-Students will complete a color wheel exercises to practice and learn color schemes and color wheel.

-Students will demonstrate their knowledge of color schemes by choose one of them and apply them in a piece of artwork.

*Color schemes

*Primary, secondary, warm, cool, complementary, split-complementary

*Color balance

*Color placement

*Color retention tints techniques

 

Design Elements

SPACE
COMPOSITION
MOVEMENT
PATTERN

-Students will be able to identify and discuss realistic and abstract artwork.

-Students will be able to create a piece of artwork that incorporates organic and geometric shapes.

-Students will develop an understanding of how to create a pattern and apply it to a piece of artwork.

-Students will be able to identify and be able to work with positive and negative space in their designs.

*Abstract

*Pattern

*Organic shape

*Geometric shap

*Positive shape

*Negative space