Middle School Drawing Art Lesson: Value Shading! Autumn Leaves with Emphasis

Add this gorgeous Fall art lesson to your 2-D drawing curriculum! Wow your students with their ability to create these stunning value-shaded artworks! Great confidence builder that sets them up for success!

• This is an impressive back-to-school drawing to use during your Fall Art drawing unit!
• This Middle School or High School drawing resource will make it easy for you to help your art students to achieve beautiful results!
• This drawing project provides a great opportunity to show students how to apply the Art Elements (Line, Color, Shape, Space, Value, and Texture) and many of the Design Principles (Repetition, Variety, Emphasis, Unity, Balance, and Contrast) to create a successful value drawing!
• The handy, step-by-step instructions included in this product make this lesson easy to teach and also easy for all students to achieve success!

⭐How I used this lesson:

In 7th grade Art, I review the Art Elements for the first 4 weeks with short mini-lessons. After the review lessons, I then introduce the Design Principles.

• I used this lesson with my 7th graders as their first drawing to discuss how they will be using the Art Elements Line and Value, to shade overlapping autumn leaves to create the illusion of space on paper.
• The Emphasis in the drawing is achieved by the use of one beautiful leaf shaded with color as a Focal Point.
• Other Design Principles applied to this drawing include Variety, Contrast, Repetition Movement and Unity.

⭐Techniques and Skills covered in this fun seasonal art lesson:

• value shading
• "lifting out" eraser techniques
• color pencil layering
• burnishing
• shading to show shadow
• Implied texture

⭐Included in this 27-page PDF product:

- 6-page illustrated lesson plan

- National Core Visual Arts Standards

- Grading Rubric

- Finished Student examples

- 4 mini-drawing lessons to teach

• shading with value and color
• overlapping
• leaf shapes, and margins
• "lifting out" technique and observational drawing

- Cross-curricular Science Sketchbook Activity "The Anatomy of a Leaf" worksheet

- Related scientific informational handout that covers photosynthesis, leaf functions, "Why Do Leaves Change Color?" and " Why Do Leaves Fall?"

- 4 print-ready drawing resources to assist students to draw a wide variety of leaf shapes, leaf classification, leaf margins, and vein patterns found on various types of leaves.

-Color and black and white Leaf photos to assist students with shading with graphite values and colored pencil values and color.

❤️3 BONUS items:

• "The Art Elements and Design Principles"
• "Using Value to Shade Forms" Practice Worksheet
• A surprise mini-project to enhance your final display!

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