Cake Slice ART LESSON

CAKE SLICE ART LESSON for Grades 3-8. Blending and Shading techniques in this easy 1hr art lesson. Using pastels or Crayola Drawing Chalk for this colorful food themed art lesson.

This lesson was inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s art. I tie it in to lessons on values and shading. 

 

 

MATERIALS:

black card stock, pencil and eraser, Crayola Drawing Chalk, white chalk

For the Cake Art Lesson, draw our cake slice starting with a triangle posited at a bottom corner of the page, and then make it three dimensional. Add the frosting lines on the slice.
We add a plate and a horizon line to create a background.

For the cake part they can use brown or white.

The wonderful thing about the Crayola Chalk sets is, most of the colors have a light and dark shade.
They get to choose a set for the cake frosting. Light on the top of the cake, dark on the sides. I use a little bit of white chalk to lighten the top edge of the cake and frosting.
Choose a new set of colors for the plate color it all with the light color and use the dark for the shadow of the cake. Pick another for the table. Lightly use black to create a shadow on the table. Don’t forget to add details on the cakes.

I have them use their eraser to clean up any smudges and I spray with aqua net hair spray as a fixative.

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MORE FUN ART LESSONS

• PUMPKIN PIE ART LESSON
• LIZARDS WITH SHADOWS
• CAKE ART LESSON