How to Teach Shading Art in the 5th Grade

Tip 1 - 5th grade art projects

Explore Christy Buitendorp-Bellaoud's board "5th grade art projects" on Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas

Tip 2 - Art - Value, Tints, Shades

Explore Ms. C's board "Art - Value, Tints, Shades" on Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas

Tip 3 - Drawing and Shading Geometric Forms

I have always wanted to teach students how to draw and shade spheres, cubes and other forms, but I lacked confidence. Then I found two great worksheets via Pinterest that made the lesson really successful. Any shading lesson has to begin with a discussion of value. We looked at some black and white photographs and noticed the variety of grays, from very light to almost black. I gave each student a photocopy of a completed value scale and this handy value worksheet at About.com     The sixth graders did part one - filling in the value scale on the right of the worksheet. Next, we took a close look at a real sphere (in our case, a red rubber playground ball). I turned off the overhead lights and focused a single light source on our red rubber ball. We identified highlights and cast shadows, and saw how shadows gradually got lighter further out from the object. Now the students did part two of the worksheet - roughly shading the sphere to match their new [...]

Tip 4 - Art Teacher in LA on WordPress.com

K-6th grade Art Lessons (by Maria Galloway- Viridian Art Academy)