Course Title: Elementary Art/elementary painting

Big Idea: Art is individual and everyone has a personal style

Lesson: The Dot Painting
Grade: 2
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Plan Narrative: Students will begin with having the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds. The students will be
learning about painting techniques that they will be using on this project. They will learn and see
demonstrations of wet, dry, salt and crayon resist techniques. The students will be reminded of the
classroom rules when they are painting. Videos will show where to get materials, what materials are
needed, where to put materials away and how to wash tables. The students will then practice painting
each technique with their paints. The students will learn about negative and positive shapes. They will
learn about how their dots can be positive or negative when they paint them. They will have a practice
paper doing one of each technique. After they have practiced, they will get four square good pieces of
paper to paint their dots. The next time, they will make a gold frame for their favorite dot they have
painted. The gold frame will be creatively made with dots of oil pastels, gold paint, and gold dust. After
both pieces of art are dry, the students will glue their dots to the gold frame.
Key Concepts and Essential Questions:
1. Art is thinking in and though media and materials
a. What materials are being used?
b. How can you come up with solutions with new materials?
2. Art is individual and personal
a. How does art become individual?
b. What is the difference between being influenced and copying art?
3. Art is having the ability to take pride in your work
a. Why is it important to take pride in your work?
b. What other areas will learning to take pride in your work help when learning it in art?

National Standards:
Creative approach
Aesthetic approach
Critical Approach

Objectives: The learner will
Gain understanding of the new materials.
Understand the concepts of positive and negative space
understand the new vocabulary presented.
Discuss their creative definitions and understand what they can do to improve their work
analyze their work in a creative way and assess their work

Materials: paints, paintbrushes, pencils, oil pastels, small paper for dots, large paper for frame, gold
paint, gold dust
Vocabulary:
Techniques- a style of art that can be different depending on the materials used
Crayon resist- writing over the area with a crayon and going over it with paint and water, the two dont
mix and create a nice effect.
Salt technique- salt is used on top of wet water and paint, when dry and brushed off, it creates a
textured effect.
Negative space- the area around your subject of work
Positive space- the subject of your work that the audience is focused on.

Day one
1. Introduce by assessing who has read the book The Dot. Proceed to show the book in a Youtube
video
2. Ask the class why The Dot is an important lesson in art.
a. Because everyone can be good at something, you just have to open your mind about
what it is youre making.
3. Describe and show each new technique of painting being introduced.
a. Salt
b. Crayon resist
c. Wet
d. Dry
4. Show videos on positive and negative spaces, show examples and check for understanding.
5. Show the videos on the expectations of the art room when we are painting.
a. The children need reminders of what is expected, painting can be an over stimulating
task, so the children need to know what is needed by them.
b. Videos include: paint shirts, what supplies are needed, where supplies are located,
sponging tables, cleaning up
6. I will show how we will practice the new techniques on the paper provided that are labeled with
the techniques
7. The students will get started practicing. They can free paint with the techniques after they have
practiced each on separately.
Day two
1. Review the book The Dot and why its important to students and everyone alike
2. Review painting in the art room expectations
3. Review four techniques
4. Show videos on positive and negative spaces, show examples and check for understanding.
5. Show students how to paint each dot with techniques
6. Students will paint at least four dots with paints and new techniques.
7. If the students have time, they can paint more than four dots until class time is over.
Day three
1. Review painting of dots and positive, negative space.
2. Start introduction of gold frames
a. Show video of how to draw circles in pencil first
b. Give definition and show examples of oil pastels.
i. Show how you must go over the pencil a lot of times to make it dark
c. The students can paint in stations-six at a time-the gold paint around the frame and
over the gold/silver oil pastels
i. Remind the students that this is the crayon resist technique
d. The teacher will help in the gold dust application since it is messy, the students will
blend around the frame
e. Place on the drying rack after the frames are paitned
Day four
1. The students will be formatively assessed about what they have done so far and what they have
learned.
2. The students will get their dots back that they painted and choose their favorite one out of all
them
3. The rest of the dots they dont choose, they can take home.
4. They will watch a video on handling the glue and glue bottles.
a. How to use only a little bit of glue
b. How to wipe the bottle clean after use and close the cap.
c. How to attach the dots to the frame and rub it down
Day five
1. The students will be assessed on their work in the following areas:
a. Favorite part of the project
b. Thing they did best
c. Thing they could work on
d. Positive or negative dot as a favorite
e. Favorite painting technique
Close: Discuss the next project in relation to positive and negative space.