ALL GRADES
Knowledge: SHAPES
Media: DRAWING AND PAINTING
Length of Time: 1-2 sessions
POLYGON PORTRAITS
Background and Assessment
Key Concepts:
Using polygons to create polygon portraits.
Discovery Questions:
1. What shapes do you see on a face?
2. What words can you use to tell where they are?
3. How can you combine shapes to create new
shapes?
Process
Materials:
Drawing paper 9 X 12
Black crayons and Watercolor paints or
Oil Pastels
Mirrors, if kids are drawing themselves
Vocabulary:
Polygon: square, triangle, parallelogram, rectangle,
trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon)
Enduring Understanding:
Not polygons: circles, ovals, open shapes.
Assessment:
Demonstration and preparation:
1. What polygons do you see when you look at a face?
Is your face more like a rectangle or a triangle?
2. What polygon could you use for your eyes? Where
will you put your eyes?
3. Observe your face.
5. Draw your face with a black crayon or oil pastel
using only polygons. You may decide to let kids use
a couple shapes that are not polygons, if they feel it is
necessary for their art.
6. Optional -Paint over your drawing using watercolors.
7. Allow this to dry overnight.
Students will draw a face using only polygons.
Class Discussion: Display all faces and have each
student describe their own work, describing their
choices of polygons and color.
Rubric: Create a rubric based on the following criteria:
1. Following directions
2. Details used
Process/Learning Activity:
The assignment is to make a crayon drawing and paint
over the crayon with watercolor.
Student Work:
8. Students will use polygons to create a face.
Curricular Connections
LANGUAGE ARTS (CCSS)
Listening and Speaking
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
Students listen critically and respond appropriately
to oral communication. They speak in a manner that
guides the listener to understand important ideas by
using proper phrasing, pitch, and modulation.
Comprehension
1.1 Retell, paraphrase, and explain what has been
said by a speaker.
Resources & Links
Show cubism art by Pablo Picasso.
http://www.mydaughtersart.com/pablo-picasso-cubism-faces/
kerpoof.com/edu/plans/Picasso/PicassoREVISED9-09.pdf
VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS
Artistic Perception
Analyze Art Elements and Principles of Design
1.3 Identify the elements of art in objects in nature, the
environment, and works of art, emphasizing line, color,
shape/form, texture, and space.
Creative Expression
2.2 Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of art
media, such as oil pastels, watercolors, and tempera.
MATHEMATICS (CCSS)
Geometry
2.G.1. Recognize and draw shapes having specified
attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given
number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles,
quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
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