Walnut Hills High School Lesson Plans

 

Art 1 Lesson Plans 

 

Zentangle Animals

Grades 9-12

2024

 

Lesson Summary:

Students will choose an animal that they can relate to, represents them in some way, or they just feel interested in to draw and shade. They will be designing their zentangle doodles with pencils, microns, and sharpies. They will first draw the animal using contour lines, then dividing the animal based on bodily structures and value, finally students will fill in the sections with zentangles that successfully convey various intentional depths of color. The students will utilize value, repetition, and pattern to create a detail oriented work of art.

 

Development Stage: 

During the age of reasoning (12-14), students are critically aware of their own shortcomings, they have an ability to focus on select parts of an environment, and details such as wrinkles in clothing become prevalent. Students in this stage also can project a non-literal, personal meaning into objects or events. In terms of spatial representation students have a greater awareness of environment, depth, and perspective and they can also capture action within a picture plane. With the human figure students are able to capture correct proportions, have an awareness of joints and bodily actions, and cartooning is popular. 

The period of decision (14-17), they have a conscious development of artistic skills and show subjective interpretation. Students have an extended attention span, mastery of materials, and control of purposeful expression. With spatial representation, students at this development stage are able to learn perspective and gain an awareness of atmosphere. They are able to pay more attention to non-naturalistic representations such as mood and a shifting or distortion of space. Students are able to naturalistically show proportions of the human figure and exaggerate different details intentionally for a reason.  

 

Essential questions:

1. How do patterns and repetition compare?

2. What are zentangles?

3. How can I be innovative with my zentangle designs?

 

Specific objectives:

Students will…….. 

• Analyze and design unique zentangle patterns.

• Demonstrate understanding of value through abstract means.

• Demonstrate mastery of line through the drawing and designing. 

 

Materials:

White bristol paper, pencil, micron, sharpie, eraser.

 

Instructional Aids:

• Presentation: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGN17QmmgI/ufixsZop5ZWWu3rAj3MSuQ/edit?utm_content=DAGN17QmmgI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton 

 

Vocabulary:

Zentangle= abstract, repetitive patterns that are drawn in tiles or sections.

Line= A path created by a moving point, mark or object.. A line can be straight,swirly, wavy, jagged, dotted, dashed, broken, thick, thin, zig zag, diagonal, vertical, horizontal, curved, bold, parallel or perpendicular.

Value= The lightness or darkness of an object. Value vocabulary includes tint (adding white to make something lighter), shade (adding black to make something darker) and hue (the true color). 

Repetition=  Repetition works with patterns to make the work of art seem active. The repetition of elements of design creates unity within the work of art.

Pattern= Pattern is the repeating of an object or symbol.