Sandpaper Drawings
With a few pieces of sandpaper, chalks and pencils you can turn an art activity into a MULTICULTURAL lesson.
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Lots of Lines
This lesson will expand your students' ability to identify and discuss the art element line. They will learn that artists make many different kinds of lines. They will discuss how artists use line to show ideas such as motion, mood, or emphasis.
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Who Am I?
This lesson introduces students to portraiture. Student will examine a variety of portraits and distinguish them from other art forms. They will discuss why artists make portraits.
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Paul Klee: Kookie Kitties - Finger Puppets
In this lesson, students will be introduced to Paul Klee's imaginative and somewhat abstract work Cat and Bird. Students will participate in a discussion about the difference between realistic and abstract.
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern and Movement
Students will benefit from a basic knowledge of the elements of design (line, shape and form, color, texture and space) and the principles or design (balance, unity, contrast, emphasis, pattern, movement and rhythm).
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Drawing with Dali
The students will learn about the history of Surrealism. Students will then have the opportunity to create their own surrealistic drawings, studying the print of "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali.
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Designing Future Transportation
Introduce students to the field of industrial design as a career and a field of art. They will identify examples of mass-produced products. Students will learn that industrial designers try to design products that are useful, safe and look attractive. Stu
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Forms in Architecture
Students will explore shapes and forms in architecture. This lesson will also introduce students to the concepts of form and function in architecture. Students will take an architectural tour (on foot or with visuals) to identify forms and shapes.
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Proportional Portraits
Many artists make realistic portraits to show a likeness of their subject. To create realistic faces, artists study live models, use mathematics to understand correct proportion, and practice by making sketches. Students will explore these ideas by studyi
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Walk into the Desert - A Line and Wash Landscape
Explain to students that although landscapes can transport us into another place. Yet the artists who paint them are not the magicians we often take them for. An artist carefully places each element in a particular place in order to draw you into the land
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Where Earth and Sky Meet
Display your collection of landscapes to students. Ask them to describe what they see (land, weather, tiny figures or buildings…). Explain that a landscape is a picture in which the land is the most important subject. Using your immediate surroundings, as
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Oval Action Figures
Many artists study the proportion of the human body to make figures look real. Artists often make quick sketches or "studies" of live models to learn about anatomy and how the human body moves.
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective
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Design a House
This lesson will help you lead students in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. Students will explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.
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Designing Future Houses
Students should be familiar with the basics of designing a house and the roles of site, materials, function, form and aesthetics. They should be comfortable drawing floor plans. These concepts are covered in the lesson Design a House as well as in the onl
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Exploring the Deep
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Fantasy Buildings in Two-Point Perspective
Many artists are very interested in making two-dimensional artworks look three-dimensional. During the Renaissance, artists used mathematics and close observation to invent "linear perspective"-a technique that helps artists make things look three dimensi
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Watercolor Landscapes
In this lesson, students will explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. Building on skills gained in Lesson Plan: Watercolor Painting Techniques, they will use watercolor paints to create a landscape painting.
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Watercolor Painting Techniques
In this lesson, students will explore the medium of watercolor paints. They will observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students will experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercol
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Field of Dreams: Marc Chagall: Expressive Color and Space
Students should have previous experience in creating a balanced composition with a focal point. Understanding of one and two point perspective and basic color theory would be helpful in discussing Chagall’s style. Students would also benefit from some fam
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Roller Coaster: Joseph Stella: Movement Unity
Students will explore line, shape, color and repetition, to create unity and movement. They will discuss Joseph Stella’s Battle of Lights, Coney Island and visuals of roller coasters. They will learn colored pencil techniques and create an artwork demonst
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