UPDATE: Since originally posting this lesson, I have learned much about Cultural Appropriation, and that the use of some of these traditional symbols and designs by non-Aboroginal people can be o…
Paste paper is a surface decorating technique in which a mixture of paint and paste, (in our case, papier mache paste,) is applied thickly to white or colored paper. Patterns and textures can be cr…
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Paste paper is a surface decorating technique in which a mixture of paint and paste, (in our case, papier mache paste,) is applied thickly to white or colored paper. Patterns and textures can be cr…
Paste paper is a surface decorating technique in which a mixture of paint and paste, (in our case, papier mache paste,) is applied thickly to white or colored paper. Patterns and textures can be cr…
UPDATE: Since originally posting this lesson, I have learned much about Cultural Appropriation, and that the use of some of these traditional symbols and designs by non-Aboroginal people can be o…
Paste paper is a surface decorating technique in which a mixture of paint and paste, (in our case, papier mache paste,) is applied thickly to white or colored paper. Patterns and textures can be cr…
3rd graders have loved learning about Paul Cezanne these past few weeks in our still-life lesson! We started off by reviewing some of Cezanne’s artwork and discussing his impressionistic styl…
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A large poster inspired by Robert Delaunay, who with his colored circles gave us one of the most beautiful works of abstract art. The poster consists of 25 pages, each with a portion of the work, r…
Students looked at reproductions of anatomical illustrations to inspire these gruesome masterpieces. Careful observation was encouraged in order to retain realistic accuracy of the structure of the…
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Meanderings of a retired stay-at-home mom.
These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here below a video tutorial to foll…
Netherlands-based artist Super A (previously here and here) has a new series of painting and sculpture that explores the truth behind fantasy, slicing through pop culture figures to examine the reality that lays at their core. Trapped features characters such as Tweety, Mickey Mouse, Snow White and even Ronald McDonald as their recognizable features unfurl like ribbons, revealing realistically formed birds, mice, and people caught inside. The series intends to address our skewed perception of reality through easily digestible cartoons, demonstrating that there can be no objectivity when it comes to our daily view of the world. More
Your students will learn how media connects with subject in 7 portraits using non traditional art materials. Download a free worksheet to analyze the art!
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Netherlands-based artist Super A (previously here and here) has a new series of painting and sculpture that explores the truth behind fantasy, slicing through pop culture figures to examine the reality that lays at their core. Trapped features characters such as Tweety, Mickey Mouse, Snow White and even Ronald McDonald as their recognizable features unfurl like ribbons, revealing realistically formed birds, mice, and people caught inside. The series intends to address our skewed perception of reality through easily digestible cartoons, demonstrating that there can be no objectivity when it comes to our daily view of the world. More
Make learning how to draw tessellations easy with this huge collection of tessellation teaching resources- print, digital & video inlcuded!
"I never met a color I didn't like." --Dale Chihuly 6th Graders have been studying the artist Dale Chihuly. It's been a fun beginning of the school year project. It's teaching the students collaboration and how to loosen up when making their art work. Students started off this lesson by talking about abstract art. We then transitioned into the abstract art of Dale Chihuly. Students watched this video "Drawings in Jerusalem"and learned about action painting. We then went outside and made our own action paintings. After collecting hundreds of plastic bottles we then made a Chihuly inspired chandelier. As Dale Chihuly is known for his large blown glass sculptures, we made our own. Some of the students have actually seen pieces by Dale Chihuly as the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha has two pieces, shown here and here. Using sharpie markers students colored their bottles and cut them in unique ways. They attached them to a tomato cage, to aid for support. I told them at the beginning of this project that this is something they would not be able to take home, but they were working together as a team to make a work of art. Here are some images of the still work in progress.
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