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Lesson Plans by Discipline - Painting
Grades K – 4 |
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The stenciled hand print and aboriginal style drawings help children to relate to the man from the Australian Aboriginal Culture, while helping them to understand the use of line in art. |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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From Mayco Colors, this lesson gives students the opportunity to explore the history and function of masks in various cultures and times. Students will be able to learn and master basic hand building and sculpting techniques using either self-hardening clay or clay requiring kiln firing. |
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Using Tee Juice® Fabric Markers, students design a pair of painted shoes reminiscent of a famous artist's style and choices of subjects and colors. |
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Students will study works of stained glass as a one dimensional art form and adapt what they learn to a three dimensional sculpture — a brilliantly-colored transparent mobile. |
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Decorate small wooden blocks with symbols, letters, numbers, patterns or images to create dice and a colorful "shaker" jar. Scorecard included in lesson plan. |
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The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles. |
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Explore the beauty of Braille. |
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Give students an opportunity to enjoy creating random organic forms with color and transparency similar to actual glass. |
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Students will enjoy exploring the wide variety of textures they can create with acrylic modeling paste on a rigid surface. |
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Combining clay beadmaking with basic pinch and coil pot construction, students make a musical piece of art. |
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"Drawing with Yarn" is an interpretation of work by Wassily Kandinski in 1913. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images. |
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Explore the beauty of fabric batik without the danger of hot wax or dyes. Simply trace a design onto muslin with washable glue and add brilliant color. |
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Easy, Breezy "Screen Printing" Screenprints (also called "serigraphs") are greatly simplified with Scratch-A-Print and water-based paint. Multiple prints can be made on mini-size canvas, then made into ornaments, pendants, gift tags, etc. |
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Although it is commonly used as a decorative medium for clothing, fabric paint is also used as a fine art medium. |
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This lesson plan celebrates the Chinese tradition of passing along good fortune or "Fu" to others. |
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How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun Students will be introduced to a Native American story, "How Grandmother Spider Stol the Sun", told by Joseph Brucha. They will use this to create a work of art out of clay and other materials, rather than paint and paper. |
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"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use. |
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This interactive torn-paper collage creates pockets for watercolor fish to swim in and may be linked to the study of pond life (science) and Japanese culture. |
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Found in art and architecture around the world, labyrinths are associated with metaphor, mystery and mythology. Incorporating various materials, students create their own labyrinths that may also be used as a simple game. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results — without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Create unique and dazzling masks with an exciting Mardi Gras sparkle! |
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Create classroom fun with magnetic puzzles, a great exercise for classroom art history discussions. Each student can take home a masterpiece for their refrigerator. |
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Early experiment with construction of slab clay techniques. An excellent introduction to the use of materials in a responsible manner. |
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Review of Native American Indian Culture. 2000 years ago, the Anasazi Indians inhabited the cliffs of the Southwest. They left Petroglyph drawings on rocks and cliffs. Students will learn more about this culture as they draw depictions of these symbols. |
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There are 20 Pueblo villages left in the Southwest; there were at one time in history 200. Each of the 20 Pueblos is famous for art and/or crafts, such as pottery. Students will learn about the Pueblo Indian arts and crafts, and emulate the famous pottery of Maria Martinez, who lived in a Pueblo. |
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Native American Indians are famous for their beautiful turquoise and silver jewelry and belts. The Indians, who were very close to the earth and spiritual people, believed that certain animals, birds, etc. possessed special powers. They would carve these spirit totems into their jewelry and then wear them for good luck. Students will be introduced to different examples of Indian jewelry. |
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This lesson plan will help students relate to and understand a Native American Culture as well as helping them learn geographical directions. |
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Students will choose an artwork that inspires them from a specific time, genre or culture, and paint their own version on a cardboard frame. |
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Introduce students to calligraphy, ink, folding and dyeing techniques. The end result is a beautiful banner they will be proud to hang up! |
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"Secco" is the term used for applying color to dry plaster, the manner Da Vinci used in his famed "The Last Supper." Using Plaster of Paris, students create drawings then purposefully add stress fractures. |
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Students construct a 3-dimensional form and fill it with rice to make gentle, percussive sounds. |
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This project gives new life to second-hand shoes by turning them into "Robots," sculptural assemblages created with metallic paint, wire and found objects. |
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Using a single large screen divided into multiple small square window panes, a class of 15-20 students create their own individual art project that becomes part of the whole. |
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This project is a great way to teach color mixing and will easily link with social studies disciplines following Asian cultures (Japanese and Chinese silk painting) and also with science, as botanical studies. |
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Students study the anatomy of a flower, and create and identify its parts. |
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Math and science create visual forms and structure. This sculpture uses equilateral triangles and parallelograms that are combined and repeated. |
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Students will create beautiful and fantastic cities while being introduced to the world of architecture and the concept of perspective. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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Students produce a monotype by drawing with ink on a sheet of plastic and discover how line and tonal values interplay to produce various effects. While printing multiple transparent color overlays, they will also gain an understanding of color mixing. |
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A great project! Fun, quick, and inexpensive. |
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Grades 5 – 8 |
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Students trace the contour of everyday classroom objects, overlapping them to form new shapes within the outlines. This exercise strengthens students' skills in using positive and negative space and creating abstract designs based on shapes. |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Students will repeat a design with handmade stamps. They will learn about traditional African fabric design, dyeing and decorative stitching. Rather than copy a traditional art form from another culture, students will be inspired by their symbols and techniques and apply those to their own images to make the work personally significant. |
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Studying the rich history of maskmaking in Africa is a perfect way for students to experience the relationship between the process of creating a piece of art, and appreciating the significance it carries. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Artist Trading Cards are a fascinating pastime for a great number of professional artists. The cards are always 2½" × 3½", a size that fits into standard baseball card storage sleeves. |
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Using Tee Juice® Fabric Markers, students design a pair of painted shoes reminiscent of a famous artist's style and choices of subjects and colors. |
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Students will study works of stained glass as a one dimensional art form and adapt what they learn to a three dimensional sculpture — a brilliantly-colored transparent mobile. |
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Students will design and sculpt a dimensional piece of artwork, creating a variety of textures, lines and depths. |
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The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles. |
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Create a changeable block puzzle based upon a vintage game. The result is fun and function, a brain teaser. Critical thinking and math skills must be applied. |
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Explore the beauty of Braille. |
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Introduces students to a Chinese art form, where students learn the tools used to make ink paintings, form brush holders and small pots in clay, and enjoy painting several compositions using brush stroke techniques. |
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Give students an opportunity to enjoy creating random organic forms with color and transparency similar to actual glass. |
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Wall pockets have a long history as decorative and functional items. They have been used for years to hold flowers, perfumes and light sources. |
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Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme. |
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"Drawing with Yarn" is an interpretation of work by Wassily Kandinski in 1913. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images. |
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Students transform a thick slab of clay into a 3D plaque. |
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Explore the beauty of fabric batik without the danger of hot wax or dyes. Simply trace a design onto muslin with washable glue and add brilliant color. |
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Easy, Breezy "Screen Printing" Screenprints (also called "serigraphs") are greatly simplified with Scratch-A-Print and water-based paint. Multiple prints can be made on mini-size canvas, then made into ornaments, pendants, gift tags, etc. |
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Ancient Egyptians applied gold leaf onto carved wood panels to tell stories and create opulence and on everyday objects. Follow the process these artists used to carve and gild a fan fit for King Tutankhamen. |
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Students learn the process of embossing a mono print — an extremely beautiful fine art. |
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Although it is commonly used as a decorative medium for clothing, fabric paint is also used as a fine art medium. |
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This lesson plan will introduce students to the glass medium and challenge them to open their eyes to the abstract form. |
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Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl. |
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This lesson plan celebrates the Chinese tradition of passing along good fortune or "Fu" to others. |
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Gouche and Wood-Burned Designs Discover wood burning craft techniques and the traditional paint medium of gouache. |
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"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use. |
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Many cultures create puppets for entertainment and story telling. These jointed "jive" puppets make a light, musical sound as they dance and move on a hand-held rod. |
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This lesson will attract students to the abstract as they create their own hanging kinetic sculptures from lightweight polyester material. |
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Found in art and architecture around the world, labyrinths are associated with metaphor, mystery and mythology. Incorporating various materials, students create their own labyrinths that may also be used as a simple game. |
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A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book. |
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Even young students can achieve beautiful results — without the use of chemicals or special materials. |
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Create unique and dazzling masks with an exciting Mardi Gras sparkle! |
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Part Salvidor Dali and part "Shrinky Dinks," this project compels students to reach beyond a traditional, flat painting and feeds their natural hunger for artistic experimentation. |
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Early experiment with construction of slab clay techniques. An excellent introduction to the use of materials in a responsible manner. |
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In order to understand Minimal Art, students must recognize what is absent. These painted chipboard constructions are abstract with a minimum amount of color, value, shape and texture. |
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Students create a character — half human, half animal — write a story and build a paper maché sculpture of their creation. |
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This lesson plan will help students relate to and understand a Native American Culture as well as helping them learn geographical directions. |
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Students will choose an artwork that inspires them from a specific time, genre or culture, and paint their own version on a cardboard frame. |
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Students recognize that a handmade book is a work of art in itself. |
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Students will define a purpose for creating a functional work of art and identify its effectiveness and unique characteristics within a certain cultural and social setting. |
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Maki-e translates "sprinkle pictures" – the beautiful art of Japanese lacquerware. To achieve a similar look, cut and glue painted papers to a surface and sprinkle with metallic powdered pigments. |
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"Secco" is the term used for applying color to dry plaster, the manner Da Vinci used in his famed "The Last Supper." Using Plaster of Paris, students create drawings then purposefully add stress fractures. |
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This Lichtenstein-inspired lesson looks at pop culture imagery today and describes it in comic book-style prints using slow-drying waterbased Akua Kolor inks. |
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Preserving
Flowers and Recycle garden trimmings by preserving them in acrylic and creating artwork collages with acrylic mediums and paint. |
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Students construct a 3-dimensional form and fill it with rice to make gentle, percussive sounds. |
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These plastic bottle pots are very handsome and perfectly shaped for decorating. Looking at them it is impossible to tell they are not made of clay. |
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This project gives new life to second-hand shoes by turning them into "Robots," sculptural assemblages created with metallic paint, wire and found objects. |
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Through building a clay box sarcophagus, students develop skills to transfer historical objects into an art form, and discover the application of basic slab formation to a specific form. |
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Using a single large screen divided into multiple small square window panes, a class of 15-20 students create their own individual art project that becomes part of the whole. |
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Shoes are used to exemplify a very unconventional medium as a classroom exercise in oil painting, and can also be traced in historical terms. |
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This project is a great way to teach color mixing and will easily link with social studies disciplines following Asian cultures (Japanese and Chinese silk painting) and also with science, as botanical studies. |
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Students study the anatomy of a flower, and create and identify its parts. |
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Math and science create visual forms and structure. This sculpture uses equilateral triangles and parallelograms that are combined and repeated. |
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This outrageously fun guitar design can be created in 1½ to 2 hours from start to the end of the dyeing process. |
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The ancient Japanese tradition of textile painting known as Shibori entails many techniques and processes including the gathering, wrapping and binding methods that we call "tie-dye" today. |
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Construction paper and glue is all that's needed for this project. |
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Students will create beautiful and fantastic cities while being introduced to the world of architecture and the concept of perspective. |
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Students will mix and layer colors on a transparent surface and develop areas of transparency and opacity within a single painting. |
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Students will observe and mimic the short, unblended brushstrokes used by Van Gogh and understand their expressive quality. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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Students produce a monotype by drawing with ink on a sheet of plastic and discover how line and tonal values interplay to produce various effects. While printing multiple transparent color overlays, they will also gain an understanding of color mixing. |
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Watercolor Principles of Design This multi-media project links the disciplines of painting and sculpture as students form dimensional paper constructions and paint them with metallic watercolors. |
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For greetings, gifts or just for fun, students will enjoy making a pop-up card with a lovely folded water lily tucked inside. |
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A great project! Fun, quick, and inexpensive. |
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Grades 9 – 12 |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Studying the rich history of maskmaking in Africa is a perfect way for students to experience the relationship between the process of creating a piece of art, and appreciating the significance it carries. |
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Simple beginners' project using 5 colors of paint and 2 types of stencils: positive and negative. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Students will design and sculpt a dimensional piece of artwork, creating a variety of textures, lines and depths. |
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Learn the processes involved in traditional batik and in color layering with dye. |
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Create a changeable block puzzle based upon a vintage game. The result is fun and function, a brain teaser. Critical thinking and math skills must be applied. |
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Students use all the elements and principles of design. |
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These paintings move older students to a different level in two dimensional expression. Students paint with water-based paint on ceramic. They are fired in a home oven to achieve beautiful results. |
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Give students an opportunity to enjoy creating random organic forms with color and transparency similar to actual glass. |
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Wall pockets have a long history as decorative and functional items. They have been used for years to hold flowers, perfumes and light sources. |
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Using the example of a suspension bridge, students plan and create a sculpture focused on balance, stability and strength. Foamboard with colorful wire provides a blending of aesthetics and function. |
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Students are eager to develop artwork unique in terms of creating personnal interpretation of aesthetics. This metal box project stresses the effective use of organizational principals. |
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Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme. |
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Students transform a thick slab of clay into a 3D plaque. |
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Easy, Breezy "Screen Printing" Screenprints (also called "serigraphs") are greatly simplified with Scratch-A-Print and water-based paint. Multiple prints can be made on mini-size canvas, then made into ornaments, pendants, gift tags, etc. |
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Ancient Egyptians applied gold leaf onto carved wood panels to tell stories and create opulence and on everyday objects. Follow the process these artists used to carve and gild a fan fit for King Tutankhamen. |
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Students learn the process of embossing a mono print Ñ an extremely beautiful fine art. |
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Chinese Cloisonne involves a 5-step process of 1) creating and preparing a base 2) soldering copper filligree to it 3) filling with enamel 4) firing 5) finishing. This simplified method follows the same steps, only with safer, easier materials for the classroom. |
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This lesson plan will introduce students to the glass medium and challenge them to open their eyes to the abstract form. |
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Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl. |
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Brightly colored paintings look like stained glass. |
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