4th Grade
4 Days
1. Anticipatory Set:
Show youtube video on how to make papel amate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O6pCMVWck4
1. Objectives/Purpose:
Students will:
• Produce a visual representation of an Amate Bark painting using similar colors, symbols, and a subject matter.
• Learn how Amate bark paintings were created in the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican period and how they relate to Latin American Culture.
2. Materials:
Brown paper bags, sharpies, tempera paint, brushes, practice paper, pencils, mat board.
3. Preparation:
• Write on board papel amate.
o They need to have 1 focus, a large butterfly, bird, insect, flower, paper to go under brown bags when using sharpie.
4. Standards:
a. V.A. 3: Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes.
b. V.A. 4: Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.
c. V.A. 5: Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.
5. Demonstration:
a. Show students examples of bark paintings and the type of imagery they see, have them focus on line and shape.
b. Students must have one animal, insect, snake or bird as emphasis or largest thing on the page. The rest could be trees, branches, leaves, grass, flowers etc…
c. Show them how to make their paper and draw design.
d. Then go over with a sharpie.
6. Procedure:
Day 1: Have students start to design their Bark painting on scratch paper. Rip edges of brown paper bag to give aged and handmade look.
Day 2: Students will draw in pencil then use sharpie. Erase any pencil marks. Crumple and then lay flat or use press.
Day 3: Paint using bright tempera colors and glue to mat board.
Day 4: Finish up and if time permitting we will have a critique.
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