LESSON PATTERN INSTRUCTIONS
COLOR
INKY BEETLES
Lesson Objectives: Students will learn about color while creating a mixed media beetle.
Time Required: 1 session
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky, Blue Mountain
Source: Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas, pg 272-273
Materials:
White construction paper
Ink
Paintbrushes
Chalk pastels
Metallic pens (optional)
Wet Ones
Note: Before class, decide how many inky beetles you’d like the kids to do and cut the paper accordingly.
Presentation: Discuss complementary color. Show different kinds of beetles.
Procedure:
- Pass out paper. Write names on back.
- With the ink, paint a large frame.
- Draw an oval in the middle of the frame with chalk pastel.
- Fill in around the oval with a different color of chalk pastel. Use a finger to smudge the chalk.
- With a thin paintbrush, use ink to draw a simple outline of a beetle.
- Add eyes and antennae to the head. Draw toes at the end of the legs.Add patterns on the wings.
- While the ink is still wet, smudge it a bit along the legs and body with a finger.
- Flick a paintbrush with ink to add a little splatter.
- Fill in parts on the beetle with a gold metallic pen.
- With chalk pastel, add detail to the beetles and the frame.
