• Warm and cool colors, opaque, translucent, transparent

• Symmetry

• Weaving, weft, warp

• Tint, shade, primary and secondary colors, overlapping, contrast

• Mexican art and culture

• Landscape (foreground, middleground and background)

• Body proportion, facial portrait, detail, volume

• Famous artists (Georgia O’Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Paul Cezanne, Van Gogh)

• Color blending through overlap, intensity of color

• Atmospheric perspective, illusion of space and distance

• Wearable art, habitat, mask as disguise or to represent a theme

• Still life, light source, shading, sound, composition, contour line

• Cooperative learning, related colors, dimension

• Central American culture, mola

• Horizontal, vertical, pattern

• Vegetables and fruit as artistic shapes

SKILLS

• Blending cray-pas

• Painting with water color

• Cutting and gluing

• Weaving using “under/over, over/under” method

• Building a habitat in clay

• Tracing the body to make a “body portrait”

• Adding creases and wrinkles to clothing where the body bends to indicate volume and weight

• Using papier mache

• Tying string

• Making a rain stick instrument

• Coloring using light and shadow

• Making translucent “stained glass” paper

• Making a tracer/pattern

• Using crayons to shade and lighten

• Cutting an internal shape (inside another shape)

• Mixing white and black paint efficiently into colors

• Sponge painting

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS

• Clay Habitat

• Evergreen Tint and Shade Painting

• Mola Collage

• Mexican Sun Disk

• Body Portrait

• Facial Portrait

• Stained Glass Mobile

• Native American Weaving

• Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers

• Van Gogh Sunflowers

• Native American Rainsticks

• Haunted House Collage

• Fruit and Veggie Portraits

• Cezanne Fruit Bowl

• Ceramic Jewelry

• Tree Drawing