Looking for Christmas art project for your kids to enjoy? I can't wait to share this five-day series of mixed media Christmas art projects with you.
Mrs.M's Miniature Menagerie, Atlanta, Georgia. 239 likes. A page featuring my painting experiments and triumphs. A place to share advice, and tutorials on painting/sculpting from many painters and...
From time to time I have students research an artist prior to beginning a project and record their understanding of that artist and their work by making an Artist Page. They are encouraged to arrange all the relevant information in a manner that represents or connects back to the artist. This gives me the opportunity to see if they are ready to begin the project. This was their very first one on Rene Magritte/Surrealism before they did a surreal collage using Magrittes artistic devices - transformation, scale, levitation, juxtapostion, transparency and dislocation.
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Welcome to Art Room 104! Well, I no longer teach in room 104...it's now room 309, but the heart is still there! I have now transitioned into teaching 7th-12th grades, and my focus is now moving towards Choice Based Learning in the art room. Join me on my journey as I enter new territory, experiment, and share how I fit it all into the realm of Common Core!
I have to compiled a massive list of artworks for you to look at with your kids this year. Study art history and art appreciation for kids each week!
Teach the concept of creating space in an artwork through the use of foreground middleground background. Use this free fold up printable to help!
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome the newest member of our Writing Team, Kelly Phillips! Kelly teaches 4th and 5th-grade art in Massachusetts using a TAB approach. Read more about Kelly here, and be sur
In this new middle school STEAM lesson, we are focusing on the connections between science and art through using a hologram. Learn how to make your own!
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I introduced my third graders to the many works and many giant installations of Sol Lewitt. What is so fantastic is if you have access to the internet you can show the students loads of time-lapse videos of the wall paintings being constructed! (My link goes to the Mass MOCA website but google it and you will find many more.) The colors, lines, shapes, overlapping effects are all so wonderful for the students to make connections to and VTS exercises worked great with some of his wall painting examples. The project I am about to install began with each student drawing a line that touched two side of the paper, draw a parallel one to it and then fill it in with red crayon. The next class we used tempera cakes (red, blue, green, yellow) to paint concentric and contour lines. We will be installing them all up on the wall and connecting the red lines so as to create one giant piece where the red line travels through. Stay tuned for more photos!
Pinterest is a teacher’s dream. It’s full of resources like lesson plans, handouts, and examples. They are all there for the choosing and so easy to sort and store. The problem is using them might jus
I have to compiled a massive list of artworks for you to look at with your kids this year. Study art history and art appreciation for kids each week!
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7th graders- Use these slides to practice drawing landscapes for your next project. Click the first photo to go into slide show mode.
I am reworking some Power Point slides from my clay pendants unit to create six elements of art "Exploration Stations" for independent student work prior to beginning the clay pendants project. I am planning for this to be my opening unit when school starts in September. This is a big experiment. I'm sure management will be the biggest issue, but I'm hoping that students will enjoy the freedom of moving from station to station at their own pace. Pictured here are a few of the stations I intend to set up. A link to the pdf of all six stations along with some of the lesson resources is available on my classroom site, Ms. Wilson's Art Room. Or go straight to the pdf here. Just be forewarned, the art centers are NOT teacher tested yet. Check back sometime later this fall and I will let you know how it's going! To access the complete lesson click on the clay pendants unit above.
As an art history nerd, I love art about art--art that references other artworks in funny and interesting ways. Check out these 6 works of art about art!
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Head down, hoody up - That's how some middle school students enter the art room on the first day of class. This is NOT where they want to be; what they want to be doing. Sleeping, music, texting, gaming, maybe even reading a good book are all preferable activities. Art class is scary, the potential for leakage of authentic self, great. First day of school: I will station myself in the hallway, greet and smile, exchange a few hugs with returning students, try for eye contact with the newbies - so hard to reach into, beyond the lacquered shell of young teens. We'll get there, step by tiny step. Backward portraits are a way to save face for this perpetually embarrassed age group. So is lots of choice within limits. "Freedom is moving easy in harness." I've always loved that quotation despite having to write a timed Senior Essay about it some 35 year ago.... Technology will help me increase options. Have a friend snap your own rear-view portrait and work from your phone or class iPad, or have a friend pose and create a portrait of someone else which feels safer....unless you have to pose. But when it's all done and up, the pride and fun as we identify who's who, artist and model. After all, everyone likes a little positive attention, even if eye contact is still a challenge.
By the time students get to high school, they either know the basics of color theory already or they move through the information pretty quickly. For this reason, I’m a huge advocate of getting rid of
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