2-D Art: Cut Paper Notan Designs- Middle School Art - Elements/Design Principles
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Notan Cut Paper Design Project! Introduce your art students to the Art of Japan! Middle School, or High School art students will love creating Notan Designs!
⭐Your students will learn about:
- The Art Elements: Space and Organic and Geometric Shapes.
- Design Principles: Contrast, Variety, and Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Balance!
- What is a Notan?
A Notan is a Japanese design that uses positive and negative space and dark and light shapes to create balanced, high-contrast designs.
►Materials needed for this lesson are:
•construction papers in contrasting colors
•glue sticks
•scissors
•pencils.
►Techniques & Art Concepts:
•paper cutting
•gluing
•accuracy, craftsmanship
•choosing & applying contrasting colors
•flipping shapes to create asymmetrical balance
►Duration: 3-4, 50-minute class sessions
⭐Additional Benefits:
This 2-d art lesson includes an introductory slideshow and 2 videos to make it easy to deliver this lesson as a Distance Learning Art activity! One video is also a READ ALOUD version to provide accommodation! This is a fun and easy, concept-rich, cultural art project to add to your art curriculum!
►This 42-page PDF file includes:
-An illustrated, 5-page lesson plan also is included with Visual Arts Standards
-A 25 Slides to explain Notan Design, and touches upon Oriental Philosophy of balance and harmony.
2 videos, one video has music and one with "READ ALOUD" accommodation
-6 variations of Notan Design projects to use with your students
-Organic and Geometric shape visuals to explain how to create Single cut, Double cut and Triple cut shapes
- 25 Notan examples!
►Design Process & Student Support:
Also included:
:• 2-page printable handout to accommodate understanding for students that need support or to provide to absent students to get them quickly caught up.
•These handouts also make it easy for you to create a quick Substitute teacher activity!
►"I Can Statements" for This Lesson
I can...create a symmetrical or asymmetrical design.
I can...select contrasting colors.
I can...cut and paste neatly.
I can...use a variety of organic and geometric shapes
I can...identify positive and negative spaces in art designs
An easy art fundamentals project, with a high student-tested success rate, to help your students to apply the Art Elements ( Shape, Space, Color) and Design Principles (Balance, Variety, Contrast,&; Unity) to create a fun and easy, striking positive/negative space art project!
⭐Do you Need More Lessons to Teach Design Principles or Art Elements?
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