Art: Value

I am using Teaching Art with Books Kids Love: Art Elements, Appreciation, and Design with Award-Winning Booksby Darcie Clark Frohardt to plan my Art curriculum this year. I LOVE how she ties in her art lessons with picture books. For example, when we did the element of Texture, we read



and then drew monster outlines and filled in their bodies with texture rubbings. We used block beeswax crayons to make texture rubbings of items around the classroom. My students loved it!

The next chapter, which we are studying in December, is the element of Value. In this chapter she talks about shading and shadows and drawing things to look 3-D. Some good picture books for this (illustrated in black and white, with plenty of shadows) are