Squint to check, ask partner, add or subtract more shapes.  Criteria-based teacher room scan: Creates a minimum of two templates for geometric shapes using a ruler and/or compass and traces them onto their composition.

5. Introduce concept of warm and cool color. You will color in your geometric shapes (your positive space) in with warm colored pastels and you will do a cool color watercolor wash on top to color in your negative space with cool colors. How can we tell the difference between warm and cool colors? Take a look at the color wheel. Which colors would you say are warm colors? Why? Which would you say are cools and why? Name something familiar that is a warm color. (Warm colors are the things we tend to think are warm colors like red hot lava, fire and the sun which are all yellow, orange and red). Name something familiar that is a cool color. (Cool colors tend to be on the right of the color wheel, they are the colors you associate with cold things, like blue cool water and a green cool forest).  Criteria-based teacher observation/process assessment: Converses about cool and warm colors and gives examples of them from their real life.

6. Talk about craftsmanship. Demonstrate and guide using oil pastel colors to create opaque areas in composition shapes, filling the positive space with warm colored pastel. Emphasize creating unique pastel effects through blending color and watercolor washing the negative space with a cool color. Notice too that craftsmanship: time and care in creating areas of color is especially important with bold geometric compositions. Notice the precision seen in Mary Henry's art. When you use pastels you need to press hard enough or layer colors to create a smooth, opaque surface. You don't want to be able to see the paper through the pastel. Now watch how I use the white or lighter color pastel to blend the colors together. Blending color, even using just warm colors, can create many different effects that can make each composition unique. Demonstrate and guide adding wash. And when you watercolor wash, you take a wide brush, dip it in the watercolor and wash over the whole composition. The pastel will resist the paint because it's made with oil so your negative space will be filled with a cool color.  Criteria-based teacher observation/process assessment: Colors positive space in composition with warm pastel colors and washes negative space with cool watercolor colors.

7. Facilitate collaborative peer critique and discussion through a gallery walk. Guide collaborative small group process analyzing and developing responses to questions about art. Place your composition on your table. First, you will be walking and looking at art independently. Next, you will be discussing what you noticed with your table group and collaboratively developing responses to questions (that you will share with the class). Return to your table group and talk about each of these questions until you reach an agreed upon answer. Discuss and justify with evidence: Which artworks and observations back up your ideas? Honor and integrate all member ' s ideas, make compromises in reaching agreement on responses to questions. How does the choice and organization of shapes change the way a composition appears or feels? How might these artworks seem if they were made with organic shapes instead of geometric shapes? In what ways does color influence how we see the positive and negative space? What parts of the compositions look closer, and which parts farther away? What do you think would happen if these compositions were created with cool pastel color positive shapes and warm watercolor color negative shapes? Share your group's agreed upon responses to the questions above with the whole class.  Criteria-based teacher checklist: Communicates ideas to others, makes compromises, and incorporates input/feedback to generate group responses to art.

Arts Impact Arts Foundations 2015-16

Marina Pita; Concord International Elementary School; Positive and Negative Space with Geometric Figures

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