Category: Cycle 2

  • Cycle 2 Week 4- Abstract Native American Salmon

    Cycle 2 Week 4- Abstract Native American Salmon

    For week four, the lesson combines Native American art (timeline card “Early Native Americans”) and abstract art.  First, let’s define abstract.  It is a category of art that represents imagery in a simplistic or distorted manner.  Under this category is non-objective art, which takes out the recognizable image completely, and we are left with just…

  • Cycle 2 Week 3- Book of Kells

    Cycle 2 Week 3- Book of Kells

    For week three students will be doing an upside-down drawing.  The concept is about training our brains to see the image solely as a group of lines and shapes.  It also relates back to OiLs and the ability to describe and duplicate lines. It is so, so, SO important to teach students to look at the object in front…

  • Cycle 2 Week 2- Geometric Bear

    Cycle 2 Week 2- Geometric Bear

    Fine Art for week two is Mirror Images.  The exercises this week are great for training students to pay attention to shapes and angles, while also practicing the skill of manipulating images in their head.  They will need to study the shapes and be able to flip them around in their mind’s eye before they…

  • Cycle 2 Week 1- Rainforest Drawings

    Cycle 2 Week 1- Rainforest Drawings

    The first week of CC is almost here.  Woo hoo! (Or maybe, “Aagghhhh!”)  Here is a drawing lesson that incorporates some science from week one (plants and animals in God’s creation) along with the OiLs drawing techniques.  Below you will find three separate lessons (one for each age group) but all with the same theme.…