This was a nice and quick lesson we did to introduce students to color mixing and the color wheel. They were asked to make a stencil, retrace it 6 times with overlapping, and mix the colors where appropriate.
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After a review/ intro (!) of the Elements of Art, we focused on line.
Students drew a contour line drawing of an image of their choice, and
then added line in for texture and form.