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Webelos – 4th Grade
Art Explosion
Elective
Requirement 1

The Style of Art

Webelos – 4th Grade
Art Explosion
Elective
Requirement 1

The Style of Art

Snapshot of Activity

Cub Scouts draw in a specific artist’s style.

Indoor
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  • 8 ½” x 11” paper, multiple sheets for each Cub Scout
  • Pencil, one for each Cub Scout
  • Colored pencils, enough to share
  • Large eraser, one to share for every two Cub Scouts
  • Pencil sharpener, one for every two Cub Scouts
  • Item(s) to be drawn using the selected artist’s style
  • Blue painter’s tape

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.

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Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.