Lesson 2: Introduction to Value: Value Scales
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will create value scales in various media.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the ways to create various values with a single tool (pressure, overlapping, etc).
How can you create a variety of values with one tool?
How does value define artwork?
How can variation in value enchance a drawing?
Value
Tone
Shading
Variation
Gradation
Content NCCAP Standards:
VA:CR:HS:1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
VA:RE:HS:9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Graduation Standards:
1. Create: Students will engage in a process to produce new artistic ideas and work.
2. Present: Students will develop and present artistic ideas and work.
3. Respond: Students will interpret and evaluate meaning within different artistic mediums and processes.
Aquisition of skills and knowledge requires practice and perseverance.
Learning Plan:
Students will use a sketchbook or other surface to practice, develop and refine drawing skills.
Students will apply practiced technique toward finished drawings.
Students will respond and reflect through critique.
Individual student progress will be assessed through pre/post tests, self crtique and class rubrics.
Students may be introducted to value and gradation in various artworks and in their surroundings. Students may practice identifying value and gradation in their own community.
Students may believe there is only one way to create gradation and variation of value in art.
Lesson delivery -visual exemplars, written instructions, demonstration of process and techniques, google classroom.
Check work in progress, immediate and individualized feedback to students.
Performance Task: What skills will be assessed? The ability to create a range of values from dark to light in pencil.
The ability to create a gradation of value from dark to light.
The ability to use value to define the principles of design in a drawing.
Students will demonstrate improved skill in the use of value in their artwork.
What specific aspects of task will be assessed?
Individual project evaluation based on project objectives.
Critique assessed through the Fine Arts Critique Rubric.
Visual Exemplars of project
Demonstration tools -document camera, SMART Board, Dry Erase Board, Google Classroom
drawing paper, various drawing tools: pencils, pens, ink, erasers, rulers