Middle School Autumn Drawing Lesson: Haunted Castles and Houses + Geometry!

Drawing Castles and Geometry combine to make for a lot of creative fun for Middle School art and High School art students!

• This line-pattern drawing lesson has been student-tested with 8th graders. They loved it! ❤️
• Students were interested and engaged in this seasonal lesson and pleased with their end results.
• This content-rich lesson ties in some basic geometry and house and castle architecture.
• History that relates to castles or western ghost towns also could be added in if desired!
• This lesson provides a lot of opportunities for students to practice color mixing with complementary colors to dull (neutralize) their colors to create a "mood". A great opportunity to teach students how to reduce a color's intensity with paint or watercolor pencils! The students used a variety of media to finish their drawings.
• All students started with a pencil drawing but then were given two options to finish their drawing: As a watercolor pencil drawing with neutralized colors to create a spooky mood or a graphite pencil value drawing. Both mediums were successful and easy for students to control with satisfying results.
• This lesson focuses on variety, line patterns, overlapping, value, and optional triadic color scheme.
• Students applied prior knowledge of one-point perspective, foreground, middle ground, and background on many of the designs.
• This lesson provides a lot of opportunities for students to practice color mixing with complementary colors to dull (neutralize) their colors to create a "mood".
• You can make this lesson as simple or content-rich as your time permits. If you just want to do the lesson as a line or pattern drawing it will take about 6 days. Adding color or shading with value will add another 5 days.

⭐This 26-slide PDF Resource includes:

-A 5-page lesson plan with student examples.

-Slides are provided to take students through each step that goes along with a script written into the lesson plan.

-5 visual resource handouts are provided with many windows, doors, siding, roof patterns, and other details to be used for inspiration.

- 2-page summarized Handout that reviews the lesson is included, which is really helpful to give to a Substitute teacher or students that were absent for the instructions.

-2 Handouts about architectural home styles and famous castles

-a tested grading rubric

-BONUS! A useful and relevant sketchbook activity to help students practice dulling colors by using complementary colors and also gray, to make tones and black, to make shades.

⭐Start this at the beginning of October to have time to grade this project for students to take home if they celebrate Halloween!

TIP: A variation for students that don't celebrate Halloween could be a village of gnomes or knights and dragons instead. I can offer one resource to help with this variation! "Hidden Gnomes Resource".

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⭐If you are interested in other Seasonal Art Lessons take a look at some of these resources in my Sparklegal's Art Magic TPT store!

• Wild Turkeys! Drawing Challenge
• Autumn Value Shaded Leaves with Emphasis
• Snowman Free-Standing Painted Ceramic Tiles + Resource Packet
• 35 Sunflower Photos
• Carved Ceramic Winged Hearts
• Spring Rainbow Name Designs
• Implied Line Spider Web with 3-D Spider + Poetry Extension
• Fantasy Owls! Watercolor and Marker Drawings

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