Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: 12 Days of Thiebaud

Name: Michelle Burwell

Content Area: Visual Arts

Grade Level: 9-12 Proficient

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary

1.1 Identify and use the principles of design to discuss, analyze, and write about visual aspects in the environment and in works of art, including their own.
1.2 Describe the principles of design as used in works of art, focusing on dominance and subordination.
Analyze Art Elements and Principles of Design
1.3 Research and analyze the work of an artist and write about the artist's distinctive style and its contribution to the meaning of the work.
Impact of Media Choice
1.5 Analyze the material used by a given artist and describe how its use influences the meaning of the work.
Diversity of the Visual Arts
3.3 Identify and describe trends in the visual arts and discuss how the issues of time, place, and cultural influence are reflected in selected works of art.

Big Ideas:
Is there one way to make art?
Can a persons life experience effect their artwork?
Can choice of material used by an artist influence meaning in work?

Unit Goals and Objectives:

Be exposed to new ways for creating images.

Introduce students to another way to interpret the world around them.
To explore different types of medium.
1. At the end of my lecture, students will be able to recall three different ways artists have incorporated dots into their work.
2. After learning about the history of pointillism, students will have a new technique as an option to use in their final project.
3. Students will understand the different applications of using mixed media after completing their webercise.
4. Students will be able to identify one way that art can be used to help create awareness in the community.
5. By the end of the final project, students will be able to identify and use the principles of design to discuss its influence within
their work and the work of others.
6. Students will have an understanding of how materials influence meaning in work, and write a paragraph minimum about it.

Unit Summary:
In this unit, students in the visual arts 9-12 grade proficient will be introduced to Wayne Thiebaud, Georges Seurat, Roy
Lichtenstein, Sigmar Polke, and contemporary artist, Miguel Endara. In the first lesson students will be posed with the question,
is there only one way to make art?, and introduced to an art technique called pointillism. In the next lesson, students will have
the opportunity to go in depth with Wayne Thiebaud, by completing a Webercise (guided research) on his biography and short
survey of his famous work. I chose the title 12 Days of Thiebaud because as you will learn, Thiebaud is a very experimental
artist. He uses many different mediums, and as the title suggests, this unit is composed of many lessons and techniques.
Students will be exposed to new multimedia materials and techniques such as: colored pencil, watercolor, crosshatching,
stippling, ink washes and bookmaking ideas to contain their mini project work from the unit. All of these techniques and
materials will be taught to the student, and on the last lesson in the unit, they will have the option to use all or selected few to
create their final project. Before they are able to reach this step, there will be value scales, basic forms, and one application on
something in regards to their final piece due before they are able to begin the final image. In addition to all of these projects,
students will have a couple short writing assignments that will be done in class in regards to material choice and influence to the
overall message of the work.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Word search

Formative:
Pointillism history
Quiz- six common color schemes
Mini projects- 2 value scales, one using
pointillism and the other using hatching.

Summative:
Completion of 18x 24 mixed media
painting.
Participation in group critique-see rubric
under assessments.

1 form sheet (cube, sphere, cylinder, and

pyramid), and 1 life application (animal
worksheet).
Ranking- most important art techniques.
Quick write- How materials influence
meaning.

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:
1. At the end of my
lecture, students will
be able to recall three
different ways artists
have incorporated
dots into their
work.
2. After learning
about the history of
pointillism, students
will have a new
technique as an
option to use in their
final project.
4. Students will be
able to identify one
way that art can be
used to help create
awareness in the
community.

Acceptable Evidence:
1. Completion of
guided notes.
2. Completion of
pointillism value scale
and forms.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
I will pass out guided notes for presentation.
I will give lecture on Seurat, history of pointillism, and brief
connection to the world at large.
Class discussion of lecture (to clarify confusion).
Introduce mini paint project: demonstrating pointillism value
scale on 8.5x11 sheet of paper with forms underneath using
the pointillism technique.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication

Lesson Activities:

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:
Completion of

Independently begin and complete Weberscise on

Thiebaud by using the websites I have provided.

3. Students will
understand the
different applications
of using mixed media
after completing their
webercise.

weberscise.
Interact within small
groups, and then later
in class as a whole
during discussion.

Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Get into assigned small groups to discuss the many types

of media used to create his work. Also, does the choice of
material affect meaning in his work? Thiebaud is a great
person to show variety of work.
Go back to seats and have a class discussion on individual
and group findings.
Introduce cross hatching technique from one of thiebauds
ink drawings.
Students will have to create a value scale and forms cross
hatch drawing.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
Upon completion of
viewing the ink wash
tutorial, students
will be able to recall
one ink wash
technique, and what
was used to dilute the
media.
Once the graphic
organizer assignment
is completed,
students will have an
idea on how to
approach their final
project, as well as
identify what they
would like to do.
Lesson 4

Acceptable Evidence:
Completion of the
graphic organizer with
at least a passing
score of 75% overall.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Students will have to watch the short YouTube video on ink
wash techniques. After viewing the tutorial, they will have
learned the final technique missing from the options.
Students will have to complete the graphic organizer, and
identify their final project topic, as well as blueprints on how
to get there.

Students will have to create small ink wash paintings, one

value scale, and two objects (one soft and one rough
textured).
Note how ink wash is similar to watercolor (what we learned
from last unit)

Student Learning
Objective:
5. By the end of the
final project, students
will be able to identify
and use the principles
of design to discuss its
influence within their
work and the work of
others.
6. Students will have
an understanding of
how materials
influence meaning in
work, and write a
paragraph minimum
about it.

Acceptable Evidence:
Completion of project
as defined by the
rubric.
Participation in
critique as defined in
the rubric.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Unit Resources:
History of Modern Art, Arnason and Mansfield, 6th edition.
Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting
Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting
Wayne Thiebaud: Vision and Revision
Wayne Thiebaud A Paintings Retrospective

Useful Websites:

Three Colored Pencil Techniques

Watercolor and Ink Tutorial
8 Page Booklet
Japanese Stab Book
Watercolor Technique Review for book assignment!
How to add crosshatching to a drawing
Pointillism Portrait

Lesson Activities:
Students will begin Final project using the various
techniques discussed in class.
Students will have chance to have their work seen by
myself, and option to participate in table critiques.
Students will have to bring in projects on due date and
participate in group critique, and then write a short
paragraph on how choice of materials influence meaning.

Colored Pencil and Marker Technique

Colored Pencil over Black paper
Wayne Thiebaud Short Documentary