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My students were invited to create a large piece of art for the front window of our local art store called The Artery. The Mona Lisa seemed appropriate, so we made her using the following steps. 1. I divided a 8x10" drawing of Mona Lisa into 24 rectangles and gave each student one of the small rectangles. 2. The students drew a 4x4 grid onto their small rectangle piece of the Mona Lisa drawing, and a 4x4 grid onto their white 9x12" construction paper. 3. By using the grid method, the students drew their piece of the Mona Lisa onto their 9x12" paper, then traced drawing with black marker, erased grid lines, and colored shaped with colored pencils. 4. For interest, students were told to make their drawings "mostly" warm or cool colors. Each student was given a small rectangle piece after the drawing below was cut into 24 rectangles. Then the student drew a small 4x4 grid on his/her piece. Then drew a 4x4 grid on 9x12" paper. Then enlarged their original piece by drawing on the grid. And colored. She looked like this before pieces were mounted on black background and hung in the window. Soon..........I'll go stand out in the rain and get a picture of the final installation, hopefully. (No idea why I didn't take a pic of it after we hung it up in the window?)

Pablo Picasso - Some Cubistic fun! Choose, cut and paste your pieces for a Cubism face. I've left this a little open ended, you could choose to cut the shapes out, trace them, define how many pieces students need, etc. There are 7 background shapes and 3 pages of eyes, noses, mouths, etc. and the e...

Inside: Nazca Lines craft for kids learning about Peruvian culture and history. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017! At the end of this post, find our Multicultural Kid Blogs HHM giveaway for some fun prizes. Today I’m sharing an exploratory Nazca lines craft. The project gives hands-on feel for these marvels of Peru, and how they were

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In this multicultural art project, kids will make a "mola" out of construction paper, to represent the beautiful molas in folk-art from Panama.

Guest Author: Dana Howard [Ed. note: This is the beginning of a series of posts over this academic year on thematic approaches to art history, especially in the art history “survey.” We…

Are you looking for some new contemporary artists to teach your students about? On the Facebook Art Teachers group, members suggested LOTS of contemporary artists that they teach their students. These are now all compiled into ONE HUGE LIST on Google Docs! I added websites and short descriptions to most of the artists so it is easier to use. Thanks to all the teachers who collaborated to share their ideas and add artists. This huge list has about 130 artists … Read more... →

'Where can I find free online art games that I can use in the classroom?' The answer is on The Arty Teacher website. It offers a great selection of art games.

A new and interesting idea from the art teacher Giovanni Perdicchia, who has already published on this website an activity about art works and photography. These Romanesque pop-up Cathedrals have b…

Art History 101: Early Elementary Response to the Masters. Paintings, Drawings and more inspired by Mondrian, Picasso, Van Gogh, Johnson and Kandinsky. Art teacher support RoundUP at RainbowsWithinReach

Develop 21st-century design skills and explore digital illustration media as you capture themes from your favorite pieces of literature throughout this three-week introductory course.

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50 après sa sortie, Omega choisit la 105.003 de "Ed White" pour réincarner son fameux calibre 321, probablement le mouvement le plus important de sa longue

Mondrian...the possibilities for fun are endless!

only a few more days left at school! Here's some photos from the art show we had back in March... 4th grade Paper Collage Self Portrait...