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5. CLOUDS: Atmosphere and Metaphor Students learned how artists paint cloud formations in a variety of ways. Monet's "View of a Tulip Field" was compared, in class, to Magritte's painting, "The False Mirror". The artist styles of Impressionism and Surrealism were discussed. Following classroom explorations, students practiced a mixed media technique of wax resist water color painting and oil past drawing. The subject of the students' paintings is of cloud formations. Rubric Code: VX4AA36 By jkirkman Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Arts and Design Type: Assessment Grade Levels: K-5

Cloud Painting Enter rubric description
	Partially Meets 1 pts	Meets 2 pts	Exceeds 3 pts
Mixed Media Applications Student demonstrated drawing with oil pastel as a resist.	Partially Meets Student used oil pastel to draw shapes of clouds in his/her painting.	Meets Student thoughtfully drew with oil pastel to create cloud formations, not simple shapes.	Exceeds Student used texture, gestural drawing, light and dark oil pastel marks to create 3-dimensional looking cloud formations.
Water Color Technique Student demonstrated technical skill of transparent water color application.	Partially Meets Student applied water color paint to his/her cloud drawing.	Meets Student demonstrated skillful layering of transparent color to his/her painting.	Exceeds Student demonstrated proper water color technique of layering transparent color to create a particular atmosphere.
SPACE: Overlapping Student demonstrated knowledge of and the skill to create overlapping shapes.	Partially Meets Student demonstrated overlapping lines.	Meets Student demonstrated overlapping shapes, denoting foreground and background.	Exceeds Student demonstrated overlapping forms and used the technique of overlapping to define distance and space.
Opaque/Transparent Student demonstrated use of opaque and transparent color.	Partially Meets Student applied opaque and transparent color, and identified them.	Meets Student clearly defines boundaries between opaque and transparent color.	Exceeds Student clearly and thoughtfully emphasizes and defines space utilizing opaque and transparent color.
Making Meaning Student exhibits his/her personal voice in the creation of this painting.	Partially Meets Student created a sky painting.	Meets Student applied knowledge and demonstrated skill in creating a unique painting of cloud formations.	Exceeds Student thoughtfully studied specific cloud formations, artists' interpretations of cloud paintings and used the cloud as a metaphor in their unique, personal expression.