Value Scale Pop Cans

Quarter 2 Drawing Artwork, a little less Simon Says and Follow my lead, but still having students practice skill and technique.  We loved this one!!  Students were challenged and engaged, I was able to create one with them and show my example with my Lady Bug and technology in the classroom.  My mom and I saved pop cans for a few months (we don't drink that much pop!) and students learned about the different values in pencils (2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B).

We started with a regular pop can for the first drawing, then we squeezed it for drawing #2, then crushed it for drawing #3.  One thing I learned, and I struggled with this as a grade student as well, was that students are so intimidated to go dark!  They are so afraid of those 4B and 6B shades and making it "too dark".  I remember my high school art teacher making such dark shadows on my artwork and then forcing me to "shade backwards" to make it work.  I didn't mark up my kiddos artworks, but I did take a picture of their pop can and then change the filter, to black and white so that they could see (one) how their technology could support their artwork and (two) to show how dark that pepsi blue is!!

All in all, it was a success and definitely going to try that one again!

Here are some student examples as well as my demo.  Enjoy!!

My demo example