Fifth Grade Art Lesson 5

Color and Texture, Part 1 Changing the Way Everyday Objects Look

Objective:

The student will know what texture is and practice applying texture to a variety of everyday objects.

Materials:

White paper, pencil, objects such as glue bottle, scissors, paint brush, compass, roll of tape, etc.

Procedure:

Texture is the quality of a surface. Using texture in your art work makes it more interesting. Texture in art is giving a visual feel to the things you are representing. Texture is not difficult, it just requires your time and sometimes patience is difficult. Take your white piece of paper and select several objects. Plan a composition whereby you simply trace your objects onto the paper. Make your arrangement interesting. On each object we will put a different texture. For example a furry glue bottle or a roll of tape made out of bricks. Spend some time looking around your room and picking out different textures that you can use on your objects. Once again drawing off the texture is not difficult; it's simply a matter of coming up with a mark and repeating that mark over and over and over until you have filled the surface. Use a different texture on each object. Remember that this will require your patience and will take a good amount of time. Stay with it.

Conclusion:

Today we have learned that texture is the quality of a surface. Adding texture to our work makes it more interesting. It is not difficult, but it does require your patience. We will work on our background in our next lesson.

Artwork and Examples used in this lesson

Student Artwork

Student Artwork

Student Artwork