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Lesson

Meaningful Images & Tattoo Art

“How can we create an image with powerful symbolic meaning that also represents our own identity?”

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"Romantic Agony" by Sinthia Cousineau
"Rising Pheonix" by Sinthia Cousineau
My designs of symbolic tattoos"

Rationale

        An image can have a thousand words, and most images have a meaning behind them. This lesson will explore the concept of meaningful messages by exploring the history of tattoo art and how tattoos have always held various symbolic meaning. For example most tattoo images first began with spiritual meaning. They could also be used to help remember loved ones and to mark a certain status within a social group. Today the most common reason for why people get tattoos is as a means of communicating a symbolic message of their own identity. This lesson does not aim to encourage getting tattoos but rather how tattoo arts are known for their designs of images that hold high symbolic value. To each person an image could represent something unique. Through the use of symbolism an image can represent ones identity.

       This lesson will focus on the creation of several meaningful images to represent a tattoo design reflecting one’s own identity using various symbolic elements. This lesson will focus also on the transformative process of drawing and the evolution of an image through the use of various techniques. By first designing an idea with a basic sketch, then applying calligraphy techniques to “ink” the drawing, and finishing by including values through watercolor painting students will produce an image that holds strong symbolic value to them. Then using this image student will explore the tribal drawing technique to transform their design into a tribal tattoo. This lesson is important for it shows that even a simple image could hold strong symbolic importance to a person and that they could be used as a valuable tool of showing a visual for one’s own identity.

Lesson Objectives

  • To understand the symbolism behind an image.
  • Learn about the history of tattoos as a form of art.
  • To learn how tattoo art can be used as a form of activism to heal people.
  • To connect your identity with a symbolic image representing a meaningful aspect of yourself.

Materials

For Students
  • Calligraphy Pen and nibs
  • India Ink or other calligraphy ink
  • Drawing pens
  • Paper suitable for ink
  • Watercolor paper
  • HB pencils
  • Water color pencils or paint
  • Smudge sticks
  • Eraser or eraser pens
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 Teaching materials for Art Educator
  • Prototype of a watercolor symbolic tattoo design
  • PowerPoint on tattoo history
  • PowerPoints on images with meaning
  • Access to internet
  • Access to smartboard
  • Prototype presentation board with the different steps of the project
  • SMART Board
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Project Steps

Introduce lesson with a brainstorming worksheet

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Part 1: Tattoo Design

Think of a symbolic idea and draw it with pencil

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Redraw over lines with ink

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Color in drawing with watercolor pencils and apply water with a small brush

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Part 2: Tribal Tattoo

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Meaningful Images in Art

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My Presentation

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Evaluation Rubric

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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
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    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
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    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Fictional Characters
    • Flowers
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      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Decals
    • Violins
    • Abstract & other
  • Paintings
    • Self-Portraits
    • Models
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
        • Lesson: Roman Mosaics >
          • Roman Mosaics
        • Art & Adolescence >
          • Mural Project >
            • Door Mural Project
          • Ceramic Mosaic
          • Videos
          • Lesson: Eco Art
          • Lesson: Decorating Fabric
          • Lesson: Zentangles & Patterns
          • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
          • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
          • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
          • Lesson: Canadian Landscapes & Group of Seven
          • Tattoo Art & Meaningful Images
          • Lesson: Stenciling Street Art
          • Lesson: Plaster Figures (grade 7-9)
          • Photoshop Lesson
          • Lesson: Value Scales
          • Lesson Plan: Video Art
          • Lesson Plan: Sound Art
          • Lesson: Landscape
          • Lesson: GIF Project
          • Lesson: Mashup Videos
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Reptile Zentangle Drawing
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
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        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Art Education & Seniors >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Types of Art >
      • Eco Art
      • Symmetrical Name Creatures
      • Kinetic Art
      • Street Art
    • Art & Children >
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Introduction Lesson: Egyptian Name Cartouche
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Symmetrical Name Creatures
        • Tim Burton Portraits
        • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
        • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
        • Grid Drawing Technique
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Leaf Drawing Collage
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Oil Pastel Night Sky
        • Oil Pastel: Dragon Eye
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        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
        • Mixed Media Botanical Garden
        • Street Chalk Art
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        • Acrylic Pouring
        • Australian Dot Painting
        • Blow Paint Technique
        • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
        • Coffee Art
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        • Monochromatic Painting
        • Lesson: The Color Wheel
        • Painting: Birch Tree
        • Pumpkin Painting
        • Painting: Rock Painting
        • Squeegee Painting Technique
        • Origami Inspired Painting
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          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
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      • Group Art Therapy >
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