The Style of Art

Before the meeting:

1. Choose an artist to teach your Cub Scouts about. Ideas include:
   • Leonardo Da Vinci
   • Vincent van Gogh
   • Frida Kahlo
   • Pablo Picasso
   • Gustav Klimt
   • Jacob Lawrence
   • Mary Cassatt
2. Learn some basic facts about the selected artist and selected pictures of their artwork:
   • Art medium
   • Color palate
   • Style
3. Become familiar with the different types of pencils and drawing techniques with a pencil including; hatching and crosshatching, stippling, scribbling, circling, shading, highlighting, and rendering. Reference pages 130-133 in the Webelos handbook.
4. Make samples of hatching, crosshatching, stippling, scribbling, circling, shading, highlighting, and rendering with pencils to use as examples.
5. Gather supplies.
6. Set up meeting space setting out supplies and providing room for Cub Scouts to draw.

During the meeting:

1. Gather the Cub Scouts and show them the different techniques of using pencils for art. After you demonstrate a method have Cub Scouts try the method on their own.
2. Explain to Cub Scouts that they will be learning about an artist and drawing a picture in the same style as the artist. Share the artist and examples of their work.
3. Guide Cub Scouts to draw the selected item using the same style.
4. Ask Cub Scouts to share their drawing by taping their work up on a wall. Stand back to see the different interpretations of the artist’s style.