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Video Workshops
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Blick is excited to announce our new Video Workshops! We've taken some of our most popular lesson plans and have turned them into easy to follow video lesson plans. Just click play, sit back, and see our great projects come to life. |
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NEW VIDEO WORKSHOPS |
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3D Contour Collage (PDF) Students create a dimensional line drawing out of flexible wire then cover it with assorted papers and tissues for a whimsical, lightweight sculpture. |
5-12 |
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Acrylic Mosaics (PDF) Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with dried chips of acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
K-12 |
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Acrylic Shingles (PDF) Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
K-12 |
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Bas Relief Paintings (PDF) Students will design and sculpt a dimensional piece of artwork, creating a variety of textures, lines and depths. |
5-12 |
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Burlap Figures (PDF) Based on the sculpture of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, students create a 3-dimensional figure study in fiber. |
7-12 |
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Classroom Chihuly (PDF) Give students an opportunity to enjoy creating random organic forms with color and transparency similar to actual glass. |
2-12 |
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Colored Pencil Repousse (PDF) Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
5-12 |
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Crazy Quilt Texture Boards (PDF) Students will enjoy exploring the wide variety of textures they can create with acrylic modeling paste on a rigid surface. |
3-8 |
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Deep Silver (PDF) This lesson plan uses interactive floating layers and windows to create depth within the artwork. |
3-12 |
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Drawing with Thread (PDF) "Drawing with Thread" 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. |
K-8 |
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Easy Fabric Batik with Glue (PDF) 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. |
3-8 |
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Filipino Parol (PDF) In the Philippines, during the Festival of Lights, parol (puh-roll), or star-shaped lanterns, symbolize the victory of light over darkness as well as hope and goodwill. These simple parol are created with natural reed, translucent rice paper and liquid watercolor. Displayed in a window or hanging from a light fixture, they make colorful, festive decorations for any season. |
3-8 |
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Flexible "Glass" Sculpture (PDF) This lesson plan will introduce students to the glass medium and challenge them to open their eyes to the abstract form. |
5-8 |
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Gelly Bowls (PDF) 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. |
5-12 |
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Glass Fossils (PDF) One means by which fossils are formed is "carbonization". Over time, compression and heat remove the elements from plants and leave a detailed carbon impression behind. Glass fusion can demonstrate this process in just a few hours. |
5-12 |
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Illuminated Text (PDF) Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils. |
5-12 |
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Insoluble Paintings (PDF) Based on the scientific concepts of insolubility and density, this technique seals water-based paint and mineral oil inside a laminating pouch. The different densities cause the liquids to repel one another in an ever-changing and interactive piece that continually flows and responds to touch. |
K-12 |
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Kinetic Dura-Lar Sculpture (PDF) This lesson will attract students to the abstract as they create their own hanging kinetic sculptures from lightweight polyester material. |
5-12 |
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Lazertran Metal Sculpture (PDF) This process takes any computer image and turns it into a 3-dimensional sculpture. |
5-12 |
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Mini Monets (PDF) This project uses pastels; a favored medium of Impressionist artists – drawn onto matte surface Shrink Film. The chalk of the pastels doesn't actually shrink, it simply condenses along with the film to form rich, intense areas of color. |
3-10 |
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No-Blender Pulp Painting (PDF) This project is a simple, tidy way to create the look of pulp painting without the mess of a blender or even the use of adhesive. Non-bleeding tissue paper is combined with water and agitated (torn) so that the paper fibers separate and make a rough pulp. Pressing the paper onto an absorbent (canvas) surface causes the fibers to re-bond with one another and, when dry, form a thicker, stronger paper. |
K-12 |
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Paper Maki-e (PDF) 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. |
5-12 |
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Papier Collé Printmaking (PDF) In this lesson students will make a piece that is basically a printmaking “sandwich” — part painting, part lithograph, and part monoprint — incorporating Z*Acryl D2P Polyester Lithographic plates |
9-12 |
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Pastel Fresco Secco (PDF) "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. |
1-12 |
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Quilted Foil (PDF) Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture. |
5-12 |
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Simple Suminagashi Monoprints (PDF) Suminagashi is a process in which Sumi ink is floated on the surface of plain water, then transferred to a sheet of paper. Each monoprint is like a fingerprint — unique and unreproducible. |
3-12 |
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Textured Metal Boxes (PDF) This lesson plan combines the processes of repoussé and chasing to design a piece that looks as if it may have been crafted by an ancient silversmith. Objects are fixed to a cardboard box before the metal is applied so that the design is embossed into the metal in the style of repoussé. With tools, students then chase the metal around the objects to further define the texture. |
K-12 |