Activity Description: Scouts create the same line-based artwork using two different art mediums and compare the results.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Daisy Art and Design badge requirements.
- Fulfills Steps 2 and 3 of GSUSA Brownie Art and Design badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Junior Art and Design badge requirements.
- Leaders – please be aware of double dipping and make your own informed choice.
Info Needed for Daisy Step 2: Crayons, colored pencils, and markers are types of art materials called mediums. Mediums can be things like clay, wood, or fabric. You can use paint or even a tablet or computer to make art. These are all different mediums. Artists sometimes use tools like paintbrushes, hammers, sewing needles, and 3-D printers to use the mediums. When an artist uses more than one material, like paint and crayons or yarn and wood. This is called mixed media or mixed mediums. If you use a pencil to draw something and then crayons to color it? You used mixed mediums!
Info Needed for Brownie Step 2: Different colors can show different feelings, like happy, sad, or calm. Colors also help us see and understand what things are, like a green tree or a blue sky. Using colors in art helps make the pictures more interesting and tells a story.
Info Needed for Brownie/Junior Step 3: Lines in art are like the building blocks of a picture. They help artists show shapes, movement, and feelings. Imagine drawing a happy face with a big smile. That’s using lines to show happiness! Lines can be straight, wavy, or zigzag, and each type can make the picture look different. They can make patterns. They help tell a story and make the art more interesting and fun to look at.
Items Needed:
- Two index cards per scout (or half/quarter sheets of paper)
- Normal art medium: whatever scouts typically use (e.g., markers, crayons, or colored pencils)
- A new art medium: something the troop doesn’t normally use (e.g., chalk, oil pastels, watercolor pencils, or even textured crayons)
(You may pick something you have access to, or can get at a low cost – like sidewalk chalk OR if you normally use markers, grab crayons or colored pencils as your second medium.)
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 35 min):
- Scouts use their normal medium to draw a picture using only lines (12 min)
- No solid coloring allowed
- Use dots, swirls, zigzags, crosshatching, or other line styles
- Introduce the new medium and explain how it works (3 min)
- Describe how it feels, blends, or behaves differently than the first
- Scouts recreate the same image using the new medium (10 min)
- Adjust as needed and notice how the new material changes the result
- Scouts place both drawings side-by-side and reflect (5 min)
- Which medium was easier to use?
- Did the image feel different with each one?
- Which do they prefer and why?
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