Topic: Hatching

Goals:

• TLW become cognizant of the Impressionistic style of Vincent van Gogh and background on the artist
• TLW become familiar with value/drawing technique of hatching.

Materials:

Pencils, erasers, markers, large manila drawing paper, visuals, print of

Starry Night

or any other Van Gogh work with lots of hatch-like line.

Introduction:

Hold out a coloring book–open it, and tack it up on the board. Begin to color in one page, as they normally would. “How am I doing class?” Once they comment on how well you’re doing, go to the opposite page and begin to fill in the picture using hatch marks–Ask again, “How am I doing?”
The class will of course be in an uproar–explain that what you are doing is called “Hatching” and then go on to explain a bit more in depth as to technique. This is your introduction into direct instruction.

Direct Instruction:

• Explain hatching
  
• Give examples of hatching in art
  
• Intro Van Gogh and display print of
  
  Starry Night
  
  
• Explain how he used tiny lines to create his works
  
• Model technique
  
• Have some student volunteers come up to board and demonstrate correct hatching technique
  
• Model steps of how to draw a rendition of Van Gogh’s
  
  Starry Night
  
  
  (example: “Draw the big shapes first, then begin filling them in with hatch marks…” etc.)
  

Independent Practice:

Students will create a hatching study of Van Gogh’s

Starry Night

Closure:

Q&A; —- “What is hatching? How did we use hatching? In what ways was your design like Van Gogh’s design? How was yours different? How would you change it?”

Modifications:

I give a photocopy outline of

Starry Night

to slower-paced learners; depending on ability, they can hatch right on the copy or trace it.

GT Extensions:

• Compose a poem about how Van Gogh was feeling when he created
  
  Starry Night
  
  
• Write a short narrative entitled
  
  The Starry Night,
  
  based on the work.
  
• Have students act out an impromptu skit about how Van Gogh may have found inspiration behind the work.

Cross-curricular:

• Science–astronomy, night/day
  
• Social Studies–Dutch culture

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Cecilia Elizondo-Valdez

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