Illuminating
Letters
CSOs: VA.O.4.2.8 explore and create a sense of unity in an artwork through repetition of color, subject matter, and/or ideas.
VA.O.4.4.3 create art that reflects a style of a culture from history, e.g., Egyptian masks, totem poles, sumi brush painting, aboriginal dot painting.
Lesson Objective: 1. Explore the time period in European history of the Middle Ages – social systems, religion, and unrest – and how illuminating letters came about. 2. Explore how a sense of unity was created in these letters through repetition of color, subject matter, and or ideas.
Technology: Whiteboard Assessment: One-on-one (formative)
Learning Activities: The teacher will lead a discussion of the information about the Middle Ages – from ScholasticArt magazine and the Internet. The teacher will introduce the principle of design: unity. The students will view examples of illuminated letters. The teacher will encourage the students to look for how a sense of unity was created in these letters.
The students will illuminate the first letter of their last names - first drawing in pencil, then drawing ink over the pencil lines, and, to conclude, painting them with watercolors.
CSOs: VA.O.4.2.8 explore and create a sense of unity in an artwork through repetition of color, subject matter, and/or ideas.
VA.O.4.4.3 create art that reflects a style of a culture from history, e.g., Egyptian masks, totem poles, sumi brush painting, aboriginal dot painting.
Lesson Objective: 1. Explore the time period in European history of the Middle Ages – social systems, religion, and unrest – and how illuminating letters came about. 2. Explore how a sense of unity was created in these letters through repetition of color, subject matter, and or ideas.
Technology: Whiteboard Assessment: One-on-one (formative)
Learning Activities: The teacher will lead a discussion of the information about the Middle Ages – from ScholasticArt magazine and the Internet. The teacher will introduce the principle of design: unity. The students will view examples of illuminated letters. The teacher will encourage the students to look for how a sense of unity was created in these letters.
The students will illuminate the first letter of their last names - first drawing in pencil, then drawing ink over the pencil lines, and, to conclude, painting them with watercolors.
