Elementary Visual School Arts

Concepts

(students need to

know)

Skills

(students need to be

able to do)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels

Watercolor painting
techniques (wet on wet)

Science of seeing color
(light)

Warm/cool colors

Near/far (how artists
create a sense of depth
in a painting)

Appropriate painting
vocabulary
Brushstrokes
Transparent
Wash
Wet – on – wet
watercolors

Elements of Art and
Principles of Design:
color, texture, space,
value, balance,
emphasis, unity, variety
Artists use techniques of
perspective to show
distance or depth in a
landscape painting.
...close-up
objects appear large
and close to the bottom
of the picture plane

...far away
objects appear smaller
and higher up on the
picture plane

...overlapping shapes
creates a feeling of
depth

Effectively use painting

techniques of wet on wet

to create a sense of a

body of water on paper.

Focus on color

temperature

Successfully add details

and textures to painting

to create a sense of a

pond seen either close-

up or from far way.

I. Remembering

II. Understanding

III. Applying

VI. Creating