A Still Life is a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.Still life as a genre of painting or drawing.
Trenton Doyle Hancock, “Give Me My Flowers While I Yet Live…” - During this classroom lesson we began with a 10 minute visual inquiry of Trenton Doyle Hancock’s, “Give Me My Flowers While I Yet Live…” I tried to have each student share something that they saw in the painting. We discussed the flowers, color, images and shapes they could identify and counted the flowers and petals.
- Afterward, we looked at and named parts of a flower. Using a real flower I pointed to parts of it, spoke its name and students repeated. When we were done with the visual inquiry and flower naming, students were asked to sit at their desks and we began the art making portion.
- I distributed the cups/vases and they decorated their cups/vases with markers. After 6 minutes of coloring I retrieved the markers and with the help of the classroom teachers and some parents we distributed real flowers. Each student received 3 flowers each, baby's breath and a wet napkin to substitute for soil. I added synthetic grass afterward.
- After the flower distribution and we stopped for a moment of stillness and evaluated the flower arrangement. Students were asked to be still for ten seconds and stare at their flowers. They were asked to share observations and shapes they could find. We then proceeded with the still life portion. We folded a large piece of construction paper in half and they were given a trapezoid and a cup shape. After those shapes were glued on they were asked to pause again to be reminded of their earlier observations. Finally they used color pencils to draw what they saw.
Supplies:
- paper
- still life example (image)
- glue sticks
- flowers
- cup with base or small vase
- water
- napkins
- scissors for the teacher
- markers
- color pencils
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