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2. Give each student: 1 paper, 1 pencil Give each table : 3 erasers Basket Sharpies or markers 2 x oil pastel baskets Watercolor paint Paint brush Docent Material & Setup List: Docent Clean up List: Make sure names are on artwork Place completed in your folders Wipe down tables, refill any items and return handouts and materials to bins as you found them – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson! Art@Booksin Abstracted Cats

3. Lesson 7 – 3rd Grade Art@Booksin Abstracted Cats

4. Today’s LessonSkill Development: Art@Booksin Today you are going to create your interpretation of the artwork of Laurel Burch using watercolors and oil pastels to create fun ways of depicting cats. Introduction to abstract art Development with color and pattern to build out bright vibrant art. You will enhance your skills in: Pattern and repetition Watercolor wash Blending oil pastels Abstracted Cats

5. What is Abstract Art? Art@Booksin Abstract art portrays what an artist feels and thinks, rather than what he or she sees. An abstract artist uses colors and shapes to express his or her emotions and ideas. Just as we do not know other people’s thoughts, we do not always know what abstract art portrays but if you ask the artist, he or she can explain the painting to you. Laurel Burch December 1945-September 2007

6. Abstract Art Examples: ‘Yellow, Red, Blue’ Wassily Kandinsky, 1925, Oil on canvas. Art@Booksin

7. Abstract Art Examples: ‘No.1.’, Jackson Pollock, 1948, Oil on canvas. Art@Booksin

8. Animals in Art Animals have been in art since cave walls Art@Booksin ’Development II’, M.C. Escher, 1939,

9. Art@Booksin ’Animals in a landscape’, Franz Marc, 1914, Oil on Canvas Animals in Art

10. Art@Booksin Abstracted Cats by Laurel Burch

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12. Process: Draw a border with repeated shapes Draw a basic cat shape Add patterns, shapes and symbols Trace with sharpie Color shapes with oil pastel Paint cat and background using watercolor paints Art@Booksin

13. Abstracted cats example art: Art@Booksin

14. PRACTICAL LESSON PLAN ADAPTED FROM MRSBROWN.COM By Tara Button January 2016 Art@Booksin