Shining Through the Shadows: A Treasure Map of Life Lessons

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Garlands known as "Toran" or "Bandanwar" are a traditional means of decorating doorways and windows to welcome guests with a bright and beautiful entryway. To illustrate how these fossils are formed, leaves and other natural materials can be pressed into soft clay. Simple classroom tempera paint can be poured out onto a surface and manipulated by the force of gravity into unique marbelized patterns.

Block Printed Sun Deity. Use sun-powered dyes and block printing to create an easy fabric Sun Deity. Carve the soft block, brush on dye, press onto muslin, and expose to the sun. The colors develop in minutes! Combine various patterns to create clothing and accents. Students can share their carvings across the class for added variety! Yayoi Kusama is obsessed with dots and has been using them since her role as an avant-garde artist in s counterculture. Dots are fun, dots are fast, dots are universal. They can be rounded or spherical, they can rise above a surface or remain flat.

Anyone can start with a dot, diverge to a pattern, and end with a painting or assemblage. The trick is repetition — of shape, sizes, colors, and patterns. Using the traditional Japanese method of tie-dyeing called Shibori, students create a graphic wall piece of dyed muslin. Tie, fold, crimp, and bind muslin to create gorgeous patterning. Once submerged in the natural indigo dye, the fabric is transformed.

Students share fabric patterns that are juxtaposed and embellished with stitching for added interest. Shibori also makes a great t-shirt, apron, or bag! A 3-D cut canvas pops when combined with rolled or folded paper shapes. Based on the work of Italian painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana, students combine 3-D paper forms and a canvas that's been cut through. In this way, the concepts of shape and form are easily visualized. The canvas moves into the realm of relief sculpture and can include several levels, from low or shallow relief to high relief.

A Drone's Eye View. A whole new perspective on the landscape! Create map-like art using readily-available satellite imagery. Can art be random and happen by chance? Or, must it follow rules and be well-planned? This lesson is an exercise in intuitive drawing and writing based on the art of Jean aka Hans Arp, a pioneer of abstract art known for making randomness and chance part of his process. Stained glass artists of the Middle Ages developed vitreous paint that could be applied to the glass surface in much the same way as a canvas. Merging glass art and painting allowed artists to achieve beautiful, back-lit scenes.

This process uses acrylic paint and medium to create translucent artwork within a ring. Easily create a distinctive iron-on patch using a linoleum block, paint and ink pencils. Make a patch to unite members of a club, such as art or archery club, or just make a visual representation of a personal passion.

Making multiples is easy and the color can be changed for each patch using Derwent Inktense pencils with water and fabric medium. Easily teach the concept of a horizon line while making a beautiful symmetrical pressed landscape. Fold paper in half, then transfer paints and pigments in a method similar to the Rorschach prints. After printing, add detail using markers. The process is customizable based on age. Just press for younger students, or add sophisticated details at older ages.

Explore inner emotions using multiple layers and materials. The artist, Jesse Reno, uses trial and error, along with intuition to guide his process. Using wax pastels, acrylics and other media such as markers, many layers of imagery are created on a canvas panel. A fettling knife or tool allows scratching through layers to reveal the white of the canvas underneath. Only the artist knows. Explore urban renewal and build a glowing, colorful miniature community! Using strips of paper, make a simple folded house form. Cut windows and doors and "paint" with bright markers.

Velcro the sides, add a roof, and the village can be rebuilt again and again. Mocha Diffusion on Paper. Use inks and alcohol to create interactive diffused patterns on paper. Bright inks and common rubbing alcohol work together to create surprising results! Experiment with dark over light, or light over dark.

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Try applying alcohol with tools such as brush handles, by dripping, or with an atomizer bottle. Use this technique in compositions or as a way to make decorative papers for other uses. Transform the process of collage! This collage method encourages greater self expression by incorporating descriptive words written on black chalk paper. After imagery is glued to graph paper, it's cut apart into numbered strips and reassembled onto chalk paper. Finally, using colored chalk, the artist is able to add words to imagery.

Veils of Light and Color. By eliminating those aspects of construction, students are free to use shape, value, and color as they like, with the added element of light to illuminate their creations. Creating intricate drawings on clay is easy with the help of a little wax. Use colored slips as the base, then cover with wax. A detailed drawing is done with carving tools, removing the wax from the lines. Black slip is brushed onto the wax and settles only into the carved lines. Art in the Shadows. The stark contrast and the half-hidden mystery of a sihouette is a natural attraction for students.

As a lesson illustrating positive and negative spacial relationships or to set the mood for Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, here's an idea for silhouettes with a built-in surprise This lesson plan gives students an opportunity to imagine what they would look like as bionic beings. Starting with a dimensional outline of their own features, students use metallic foil, paints, and discarded electronic components to turn their image into science fiction selfies. Make a distinctive batik masterpiece on paper using ink crystals and simple resist. By making a batik composition on paper, the ancient method is taught without the vats of dye and pans of melted wax!

A gloss medium is trailed onto paper with a plastic squeeze bottle fitted with a writer tip. Next, powdered ink crystals are used wet or dry to create a modern interpretation of an ancient craft. Working with wet plaster is a fun and spontaneous act. When small batches of plaster are combined with textural elements and pigments, fresh and unique works of art are the result! Think printmaking requires ink? A tessellation is a geometric that repeats without overlapping or leaving negative space between repetitions — think of the prints created by M.

Using brightly colored felts, paint applied by squeezing rather than brushing, and folding of the fabric to repeat pattern, a vibrant and very individual statement is made on a functional and useful piece of artwork — the book cover. Maritime Miniature in Oils. A first oil painting is an adventure. With a small format and simplified imagery, it becomes a trip worth taking! Learn about the history of maritime painting and create a small ocean or seafaring scene in oils.

A quick drying medium speeds up the process. Then "frame" the painting right on the canvas! Use it to create tiles, ornaments, valentines, frames — all sorts of great projects that make great gifts, too! Perspective on a String. The traditional way to create string art is to suspend thread or wire above the surface with nails or pins. This lesson uses holes pierced in gridded foam board, making consistent spacing a breeze.

Create a horizon and vanishing point for a perspective lesson without using a ruler! This new process keeps the sand suspended in waterbased adhesive so the mess that is usually associated with sand painting is greatly reduced. This low-tech method of engraving involves pressing a design into a drawing board by applying pressure through a paper positioned over it. The tool for engraving? A simple ball point pen!

The engraving is then revealed by rubbing colorful art sticks over it. Multiple layers of engraving and color can be built up in one image. Lichtenstein Pop Art Resist. Create a graphic and colorful resist with a nod to Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein! Start with smooth manga paper and then mix black paint with gloss medium to make a shiny resist. Apply the resist with a brush and texture plates. When dry, apply vivid color using Blick Liquid Watercolors. Use a fun, traditional bookmaking technique to make pastepaper, then cut and tear pieces to make a modern mosaic!

Pastepaper is made by pulling rubber combs and tools through paint that has been mixed with rice paste to create interesting patterns and designs. After the pieces are glued in place, pouring medium gives the whole piece the look of a glazed mosaic! Start with a Circle Geometric art kicks both the "left" and "right" sides of the brain into gear! Use gridded paper to arrange colorful, pre-cut tissue paper circles.

Beginning mathematicians create new colors, patterns and shapes with circles, while more advanced students use smaller sectors to form a variety of angles, shapes and spatial relations. The art of embroidery makes a great accent for a painting done on cloth! Using washes of black and gray acrylic paint on a traditional stitchery cloth results in a striking painting. But, when a pop of color is added with embroidery, it truly stands out! A beginner's approach to abstract painting, inspired by the works of Wassily Kandinksy.

In this lesson plan, students explore the point and line concept using a simple wooden tool to create a variety of marks on a paper surface.

Blow up a Butterfly. Create an O'Keeffe-like butterfly wing in close detail using Plike plastic-like paper. Next, add pastels along with iridescent and pearlescent mixing mediums to capture the affect of a butterfly's wing in close-up. Matisse Prints du Soleil.

Creating self portraits is a snap with this easy technique! Inspired by Byzantine mosaics and tapestries, Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was acclaimed for his gilded paintings. Black Velvet Mystery Painting. Applying oil pastels to black rayon fabric makes a striking composition, but when students add UV paint and a black light, the finished paintings really glow.

Curtain of Leaves Monoprint. Many artists have used trees as an inspiration for their work. Pressed leaves and texture tools are used to make one-of-a-kind, double-sided monoprints. Using a flexible printing block as a plate makes it easy! Experiment with Japanese paper-dyeing techniques using traditional rice papers, then share papers to create simple origami kimonos. The result is a stunning combination of art and culture. Distressed Cold Wax Drawing. The liquid wax used in this lesson plan is now tinted green. Artwork produced using this process will vary from the examples shown.

This drawing process uses a reduction technique that involves etching or scratching an image into the wax, filling it with acrylic, then selectively removing color and wax by wiping and further etching. The remaining wax on the page will create mid-range values of gray and green, depending on how much is removed. Simple Silk Screen in the Round. Silk screening is made simple with the use of an embroidery hoop frame and Mod Podge! Simply draw an image on silk screen fabric with a pencil and paint around the outside with Mod Podge.

Pull fabric ink though with a squeegee and you're done! Add handpainted details to add even more color. Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppetry. Tell a story through a traditional Indonesian shadow puppet play! Make a puppet that looks like leather by dampening and crinkling black cardstock, then create interesting patterns with paper punches. Finish with metallic markers and glue to dowels! Make a composition for viewing with 3-D glasses! Turn an original drawing into a three-dimensional anaglyph using red and blue transfer paper with red and blue markers. Then, make the 3-D glasses necessary to make it pop!

Challenge Coins are specially designed and minted for service personnel to recognize an achievement, enhance morale, or to signify membership in or experience on a particular mission. Glue Paint Symmetry Prints. Much like a Rorschach inkblot test, they would search for hidden imagery and develop it into a finished painting.

This tidy and highly interactive process uses glue paint in a finger painting-style of application — without actually touching it. Looking for hidden images and contour lines in the print will fuel the imagination of a young Surrealist! Create a cave wall that crackles with authenticity!

Using a paste made with powdered tempera and a Dura-Lar stencil, make a beautiful 3-D cave creation. The Secret Life of your Pet! Easy-Outline Botanical Illustration Prints. Although photography and modern printing processes have replaced the need for cataloguing plant life with detailed drawn and painted illustrations, botanical illustration is still a beloved art. To make an accurate rendering of a plant, students can create an impression in plaster, then trace the shape and details with colored pencil, ink, or watercolor.

Mixing and shading for color accuracy and identifying the plant are some of the skills that will be learned in this exercise.

In this lesson, students create their own tapestries as a response to El Anatsui's art, using African kente to discover rhythm and pattern in art. Recycled materials can be used, including folded papers and labels. Finger Painting has never been so fun — or so very tidy! This project incorporates glue paint — basic white glue tinted with any shade of watercolor. It dries with a beautiful transparency that is enhanced when applied to a clear sheet. When the sheet is folded, the colors can be blended and moved about the page, without actually touching it!

In this lesson, students will first learn a simple process for creating their own drawing pad, then stain and design a canvas cover for it. Roll up a felted masterpiece! Students easily create beautiful wool paintings using soap, water, and a little elbow grease. Prairie-Style Stained Glass Clings. Here, students use geometry and repeating patterns to create a vinyl window cling that incorporates the ideals of Prairie-Style Design. White on White Collagraph. Printmaking — starring textures and shapes! A collagraph printing plate is created on a canvas panel using textures found in the classroom, textured gel mediums, or even textures from nature!

After a final coat of gel medium is applied, the plate and paper are run through a printing press. Artwork produced using this process will not look like the examples shown. Practice the ancient art of sumi-e painting with a modern twist! Paint with diluted wax resist, then reveal your masterpiece by applying black sumi-e ink over the top. The addition of watercolor gives the painting even more interest. This lesson plan introduces wool roving, which is the raw, washed wool from the sheep that is then dyed a variety of beautiful colors. The wool strands will be used to "paint" onto a canvas of felt.

The wool is very easily "felted" or punched into the background with a felting needle. With this fun project, facial features become puzzle pieces that can be changed over and over again. It's a light and humorous way to examine the endless variety found in human faces and skin tones. Quilling is also known as paper filligree, paper rolling, mosaic or paper folding even though the paper is really curled. In this project, students will try their hand at quilling in a truly sculptural way.

By using much larger, thicker strips of paper, the finished product "pops" out in a very optical way. By using black on white, the effect is even further emphasized. The stitching together of layers of padding and fabric may date as far back as ancient Egypt. In America, quilt-making was common beginning in the late 18th century. A paper memory quilt is a fun way to keep ephemera paper items that have significance.

This project will teach important design skills as pieces of paper are cut apart and reassembled. Insight into pattern, rhythm and repetition is gained. As early as , New England whalers passed the time by engraving nautical artwork on bones, tusks, etc. As a means of experiencing this traditional American craft, students can etch into Yupo using scratch tools, then fill the lines with oil pastel.

Inspired by Huichol Nierikas — beautiful paintings made from yarn pressed onto beeswax — this is a simple way for students to experience the color, geometric linework and symbolism of this Native American art form. Using colorful string applied to an adhesive-backed piece of felt, students create their designs without messy glue or sharp cutting tools.

Tibetan wish or prayer flags traditionally are used to promote peace, compassion, strength and wisdom. Tibetans do not believe that the flags carry prayers to the gods, but rather that their messages and wishes will be blown by the wind to spread goodwill and compassion into all-pervading space. In this project, students will use a liquid wax resist that will be painted onto silk rectangles and need not be removed.

Vibrant color and a final gold embellishment finish the piece. WonderFoam is familiar to almost everyone who has ever presented a craft project to children — but, if you'd like to move beyond the "foamies" to a real art technique, incorporate WonderFoam into printmaking! Students learn to make repeating patterns with shapes. The wealthy Byzantine Empire had a huge influence on personal ornamentation.

Characterized by extensive iconography, pendants and medallions were widely produced to denote faith, office or rank. For this project, students use air-dry clay and colorful rhinestones to create their own Byzantine-style medallions. Gilded with gold powder and finished with a gloss coating, they can be used as ornaments or placed outdoors as mini stepping stones. You won't believe what these markers can do! The juicy, alcohol-based ink reacts with itself or with hand-sanitizer to make painterly drawings on clear plastic film.

This project utilizes acrylic paint, but in a totally unique way Acrylic paint "skins" are easily created just by brushing paint on a non-stick palette or baker's parchment and letting it dry. You can use this plastic, flexible paint in a number of ways to create mosaics, mixed media collage, stained glass-like effects, jewelry, book covers and more!

Considered a lost art for many centuries, encaustic painting is enjoying a resurgence because of modern techniques, tools and materials. Interesting dimensions and contrasts between the metal and translucent wax occur when cooled. Functioning as both a painting and a print, a Monotype is unique and irreproducible.

Add earth-tone pastels to make them look as if they just came from an excavation site. The practice of illumination — decoration of pages with ornate lettering, luminous color and precious metals, was developed during the middle ages when literacy was rare and books were even more so. With this process, students design one of their own initials on reflective board and add transparent color — it appears to glow with reflective light from within. Traditionally, eggshell mosaics are made by first dying then positioning each shard individually — a time-consuming and delicate process.

This project introduces a new way to crush and color eggshells, creating intricate veining and texture all at once without pre-dying or arranging each fragment. Thematic Clay Picture Frames. Students select their favorite photo and design a custom picture frame to display it. Late in his career, artist Marc Chagall produced a number of paintings in glass with colorful, dream-like images symbolizing peace, love, tolerance and faith. Even if each shirt displays the same message, each will be a completely unique work of art!

This process is perfect for group settings — schools, camps, daycare centers, clubs, family reunions and special events — but it is also ideal for countless home decorating and craft projects. Stencils and repeated patterns have been used in painting as long ago as 9, years, when early humans placed their hands against cave walls and outlined them in charcoal or paint. In this lesson, even a stencil made of basic shapes can be effective. Each stencil can be used repeatedly, and by changing oil pastel color, overlapping images, or using only a part of an image, the result is a cohesive composition that has depth and color fusion.

Molding, casting, sculpting, painting and monoprinting — this simple project pulls all of these together into one low-relief sculpture that demonstrates the elements of texture and color. Texture is defined in clay by pressing objects in or sculpting with tools. Each concentric square of color related to the next, whether they were harmonic or contrasting colors. This school version of graffiti shows students that lettering is not only important in communicating, but that it can also be an artistic expression. Itajime Shibori is a technique for folding, clamping and dyeing paper or fabric resulting in beautiful designs — very similar to tie-dye.

The folds and clamps keep the dye or ink from penetrating fully in certain areas making patterns and giving a dimensional appearance on a flat surface. This project is a great way to teach students the scientific concept of diffusion and color mixing. On the Wall Motifs. Students select a commercial business and consider images, symbols and colors that will best represent the company.

This fun project will help children understand how simple images communicate a message, whether in business or elsewhere. Although he was a world renowned artist, his work gives the impression it could have been created by a child. He felt some of the best ideas were inspired by the simplest things. In this project, students attach and weave Chenille Stems onto stitchery canvas to make simple shapes and designs. Inspired by the sequinned banners of Haiti, students will make a banner of their own design using a variety of glittery, sparkly, shiny materials and brilliant colors.

Use this opportunity to learn about the art and history of Haiti, a unique blend of African, French, Spanish and Native Caribbean cultures. Making Elemental Drawing Materials. Blick Art Materials was not around to provide art supplies 32, years ago, but, somehow, the earliest humans found a way to draw and paint on cave walls using materials made from basic elements all around them. Similar to the Paleolithic era, students will make their own drawing tools by transforming simple materials from the classroom, and then using them to communicate through images.

Beautiful pottery was mass-produced during this era, especially in the form of decorative tiles. Tube lining — a technique in which a design outline was created first and then filled in with color — is the definitive look of Art Nouveau. If kiln-glazed ceramics are not an option for your environment, this project is a way to produce glossy, hand-painted tiles that look like the real thing. Patches were then layered and stitched together to make a large piece.

Students create a Penny Carpet with fabric that they design themselves using monoprinting techniques and fabric paint. Each section is sewed to felt swatches, then joined to make a larger piece of art. Clay tiles are glued to a firm backboard and grouted with acrylic paint.

This project is safe and simple enough for younger students and those with special needs. The magic is in the color! Wax Pastels adhere to the slick surface of tooling foil and stay there. Students explore tools and texture plates to create designs in lightweight metal, then, using simple page-binding techniques, assemble a lovely hardcover book to use for notes, sketches, journaling, scrapbooking or photos.

Geometric patterns occur in rich profusion throughout Islamic Cultures. This lesson is an invitation to look at the history and meaning behind patterns and view the work of a contemporary Iranian artist. Students design and assemble a reflective mosaic pattern using metallic papers on adhesive film. In this lesson plan, students make a quilt block using paper and glue rather than fabric and stitching. Quilt-making spans multiple centuries and cultures. It can teach math skills, record history, recycle cast-off materials and encourage cooperative efforts within a group This lesson looks at the story quilts of Faith Ringgold.

She surrounds her narrative paintings with a quilted border, creating stories in color, texture, and pattern. Students select their own story to illustrate, then paint fabric using watersoluble pastels and watercolor. This project demonstrates the physical process of osmosis. Water-based markers are diluted by filtering water through an ordinary wet wipe. The flow of the color is slowed and channeled by the presence of oil and alchohol in the wipe, creating random and interesting tie-dye-type patterns.

The inside of the Earth holds hidden secrets very close to us, so dig a hole to uncover layers of mystery! A hole just 1" deep will show a very small example of soil strata or layers — including rocks, shells, fossils, geodes, water, oil and coal. This art project is based on geology but need not be scientifically accurate as students creatively incorporate texture and line. Persian and Navajo Rug Bookmarks. This lesson plan explains two diverse and beautiful style of textiles: Persian carpets and Navajo rugs.

Similar colors and geometric shapes are two common elements of both. Turn a black and white photo into a "riot" of color! Tinting is a simple technique that challenges students of all ages to pay attention to detail, and even young children can do it with success. In this project, class pictures are enlarged, printed in black-and-white and tinted. The use of non-traditional colors is encouraged. Collect and recycle product wrappers for a "green" art project worthy of good-citizen attention!

Students save and trade wrappers to make a paper background, then choose words and phrases related to their "rapper" collage and cut them from thin foam to create a printing plate. This is a whimsical introduction to nutrition and graphic design that invites students to make up an imaginary soup. National studies indicate that children eat about anything if the advertising is "crazy" or attractive to them, including vitamins and vegetables.

Now its students' turn to entice peers to "buy" their soup! Anyone for Alligator Soup? This easily constructed project offers an exploration of texture, line and color — key elements of design. Younger children may take a more abstract approach with emphasis on texture and color.

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Older students will find the burlap easy to pull and the weave easy to manipulate, creating holes and lines. Subject matter such as buildings, landscapes and abstract designs are adaptable to varying grade levels. This is a great project for teaching recycling and renewal. Using a plastic stencil and screen, students make a shaped piece of handmade paper from cast-off scraps. Flower and vegetable seeds are added to the pulp. When dry, the rough-textured paper can be decorated with paint or drawing materials and glued to the front of a card.

When planting season arrives, place the shape in the soil to make a beautiful garden. This lesson plan is designed to celebrate fine artists by honoring them with a "commemorative stamp. A "cyanotype" is a photographic print made when UV light is exposed to a photo-sensitive paper. This lesson plan is a simple new process involving two safe and familiar classroom favorites — Nature Print Paper and Scratch Art. The finished arwork has the appearance of a linoleum block print — without the use of cutting tools or ink. During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a State of the Union speech in which he spoke of four basic freedoms he dreamed of being available to everyone in the world.

Artist Norman Rockwell interpreted these freedoms in a series of popular paintings published by the Saturday Evening Post in This lesson plan challenges students to consider the concept of freedom: Exercise for art is as important as exercise for sports or rehearsal for theatre, as it fosters a continual pursuit of excellence. In this lesson, to exercise their artistic creativity, students keep a day-by-day art journal. Each page should be a simple statement of a different idea or small thought for the day. EZ Encaustic uses only small amounts of soft decorating wax that may be softened by hand or by using low temperature heat.

Also included are instructions for a Painterly Encaustic process, using melted wax. This project starts with a 12" x 12" piece of muslin upon which a variety of papers, fabrics, colors and textures are added. Paper Cloth can be sewn with a sewing machine, cut with scissors, folded and reused. It is hard to tear!

The finished and dry material may be wrinkled, or placed between two sheets of paper and ironed to flatten. Color can be added using different mediums. Rather than allowing more plastic to end up in a landfill, raise your students' level of social conscience and demonstrate the art elements of line, shape and texture with this lesson in "green" art. Twist and form recycled plastic into coils and shapes on a piece of adhesive-backed film and view in reverse. It's a tidy way to create a collage — no glue or paint required. Where standard painting builds an image from the background forward, a reverse painting is created in a backward fashion — foreground first — with each phase applied so the background finishes the painting.

A backing of metallic foil reflects light through the pastel in the same manner as gilding. 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. 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.

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.

Molas are the brightly colored applique panels made only in the San Blas region of Panama by the Kuna Indians. Once the paper Molas are completed, have the children discuss their importance to the Kuna Indian women and their culture. 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. The Kuna culture flourishes today in the San Blas Islands with the vibrant trade of native Molas — brightly colored cotten panels that have been hand-sewn for many decades.

For a first lesson in one-point linear perspective, a grid is a perfect tool for beginning painters. It eliminates time spent measuring and marking, allowing students to achieve perfect accuracy on their first try. Neo-Impressionistic artists of the late s developed a pictorial technique in which they placed specific brushstrokes of pure color directly on their canvas instead of mixing colors first on a palette. In this lesson plan, students will create balls of air dry clay and attach them collage-style to a self-adhesive board to recreate the Divisionism approach to painting.

This project is quick and inexpensive but big on creativity. In addition to the wood shapes, all that is needed is a little glue, paint, marker and enough imagination for embellishment. Add a pin back or magnet for function. Woven Felt Wall Hanging. The fine art of weaving is explored using acrylic felt. This lesson also offers an opportunity to discuss fabric used for clothing, blankets and other items found in various cultures.

This lesson plan uses intensely colorful, easy-to-use Model Magic air-dry clay in place of yarn to create paintings similar to the art of the Huichol tribe. This simple bookmaking project can achieve great results with a wide variety of ages. Using nature as a theme, it's a perfect place to record nature sketches, foliage collections and personal observations of the world around us.

Classic neon signs are a part of everyday American culture, crossing over lines of economics, geography and heritage. On a Starry Night Art history is an excellent discipline to accompany this lesson plan, as students become familiar with masterpieces by various artists. Students will choose an artwork that inspires them from a specifictime, genre or culture, and paint their own version on a cardboard frame.

Using a single large screen divided into multiple small square window panes, a class of students create their own individual art project that becomes part of the whole. A lesson plan from Speedball. The natural translucent quality of silk paired with transparent paints rivals the glow of stained glass when held up to the sun.

This is an easy way to teach introductory silk paintin. Stencil City is a place that only exists on paper. It is created by cutting stencils in shapes of buildings and then using them to create areas of color against a black background. The end result is a nightglow cityscape. Oaxacan woodcarvings of animals are decorated with whimsical color and loaded with all-over designs. This project lets students explore simple shapes and textures by drawing an outline shape of an animal then filling it in with as many textures and patterns as they can think of. Torn Paper Collage Journals. An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum.

Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. This lesson plan gives students the opportunity to learn about the concept of architecture, particularly towers and turrets. Using watercolor painting techniques and tracing, cutting, and gluing skills,students create lines, patterns and textures while understanding the concept of near being larger, far being smaller.

Painting on a transparent medium not only allows the interaction of light within the painted surface, it also projects colorful cast light and shadow onto walls, floors and surrounding objects. Van Gogh Clay Plaque. This lesson plan begins by focusing on line and texture as students sculpt a flat slab of clay, defining an impressionistic landscape. Once the clay has dried, students will paint the piece using a palette of colors inspired by Van Gogh. 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.

These paper dolls are wonderful to combine with the Global Village Paper. They can easily be turned into old-fashioned paper dolls, displayed in chains and hung. Or create a globe and arrange dolls around the total outside edge. Adaptable for almost any age level, the basis for this lesson is very simple: Faux Stained Glass Lanterns. Examples of intricately-designed stained glass can be found around the world: In this lesson, students cut papers into silhouette forms.

The unity of shapes stress the principles and elements of design. Young people are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings and find squares, rectangles, rounds and the hardest triangles in everyday materials. The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles. Easy Fabric Batik with Glue. 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. A drawing becomes a painting, then flips back to a drawing again as students use variety to explore surfaces, media and techniques. As they create maps of their route between their homes and their schools, students learn about distance, signs, symbols, landmarks and safety. In painting, color can be used to describe emotions, feelings and ideas.

Students select a color and paint a monochromatic theme of their choosing. 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. Monoprinting with Watercolor Markers. 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.

Blick Exclusive Artist Grid Canvas makes it easier to place objects from a photograph and plot landscapes, still lifes and portraits. Create your own mosaic pieces — any design, shape or color you want them to be! This project combines the fun and excitement of Shrink Film with the fine art of mosaics. Grid Canvas eliminates time spent measuring and marking, allowing students to achieve perfect accuracy on their first try.

The architectural style developed by the ancient Greeks has had such an influence on world civilization that it surrounds us still today. This block printing lesson introduces the three orders of Greek columns and challenges students to discover them in famous buildings and the surrounding community. First seen in Persian fabric design, the signature floral kidney and tear shapes of Paisley prints are a great lesson in pattern and rhythm. French curves and colored pencils are used to draw colorful versions on construction paper.

Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. Hand-altering photos is a practice nearly as old as photography itself. Introduce students to calligraphy, ink, folding and dyeing techniques. The end result is a beautiful banner they will be proud to hang up! Artist Trading Cards are a fascinating pastime for a great number of professional artists. Carnival Scratch Art Mask. Explore the history of carnival masks from various cultures. Ornate and colorful masks are easy to create with Scratch Art Film and permanent markers.

Oven baked water-based acrylic paint on glazed tile looks like kiln fired glazed tile. The paint is available in a wide range of colors and can be layered and blended to make other colors. In this project, students will use simple geometry tools to make lines and circular shapes, then define a pattern within the boundaries of the overlapping shapes using the repetition of two colors.

This is a good, easy introduction to the elements of line, pattern and shape. A very creative and experimental form of printmaking, collagraphs can be made with cardboard, yarn, fabric, leaves, tape and more. Crazy Quilt Texture Boards. Students will enjoy exploring the wide variety of textures they can create with acrylic modeling paste on a rigid surface. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images.

Even young students can achieve beautiful results — without the use of chemicals or special materials. Forget bar graphs and pie charts! In traditional Asian culture, individuals used a small, unique stamp to sign documents and artwork. Wooden shapes may be used to create stylized figures that may look like toys, but are really small-scale sculptures.

In the Cosmic Flow. Create a classroom galaxy! Solving the Art Puzzle. With an emphasis on emphasis, the elements of art and principles of design become a puzzle to be solved. The works of Mexican artist Yvonne Domenge demonstrate the way that the space surrounding a sculpture can be just as expressive as the solid structure.

Using Modeling Pulp Board — an inexpensive material that bends when wet and becomes rigid again when dry — students discover form in both positive and negative space. Make a cell phone amplifier by mixing clay with a little bit of science. A cone shape amplifies existing speakers by confining sound waves and aiming them all in one direction. Welcome to my Hive. In a honey bee community, one can find a level of cooperation and collaborative teamwork that exists nowhere else on earth.

Whimsical, colorful, and much easier than one would expect, these paper creations make festive decorations for mere pennies. A simple spiral cut — a line that starts on the edge of a circle and continues to the center — is the only skill needed. No glue, no extra construction. The secret is starting with multiple conjoined circles. A staple for needle crafts, plastic mesh canvas becomes the base for a textural fiber and wire mash-up.

An open-ended introduction to fiber art, this lesson provides students with a means to create a base structure. Once this substrate is in place, students follow their own path of exploration and experimentation, discovering the many ways fibers can communicate color, texture, and form. When patterns and colors on multiple layers spin together, they can fool the eye and create colorful illusions.

Take one for a spin! Sculpt a Sea Urchin! Use the bases of discarded containers to make a plaster sea urchin sculpture. Embellish dry plaster by adding dots of paint using a paintbrush handle, detail writers, or a small squeeze bottle. Create an entire colony of sea creatures for the classroom! Reed is an inexpensive and easy-to-use medium with diverse possibilities. This process demonstrates how reeds can be inserted into corrugated channels that will hold them in place and easily release them as well. Of the three ancient architectural orders originating in Greece, the Corinthian style is the most ornate.

This stylized version has a decorated capital with quilled paper and a fluted column created from corrugated paper. Stark Raving Paper Art. How can a flat piece of paper become a 3-dimensional relief sculpture with only one fold? The answer lies in multiple layers! Students use math skills to create contour shapes that recede in space and then expand again, while learning about a popular contemporary artist. Deeply textured clay spheres create an interactive art experience when rolled into sand or onto clay slabs.

Beginning with a simple ball of clay, then carve or texture deeply. Once fired, the ball can be used over and over again to create patterning in sand. Or, use the sphere as a beautiful clay patterning tool on soft slabs of clay. In the mid s and s, Lee Bontecou was part of a generation of artists that looked beyond traditional fine art materials and transformed everyday objects in their work. Using a box as a starting point, students turn one of the world's most everyday materials - cardboard - into multi-media sculpture. This process uses hollow metal tubing and metal rings that provide a metallic chime as they strike one another.

Craft a whimsical mixed media sculpture using remnants stored in your "nest". Combine fabric or paper scraps, raffia, pipe cleaners, bits of airdry clay and paint to make an interesting bird or animal sculpture. Make your Mark with a Handmade Brush! Create a customized mark-making brush for ink sketching or painting. Use a brush ferrule to attach sticks, bamboo pieces or upcycled plastic pen cases to make beautiful brushes.

Teach a lesson in marine biology while making a barnacle sculpture! Use Claycrete papier mache mix like clay to create a pinch pot barnacle. Add paints or pigments right to the mix for added color. Mount all the barnacles together on a wall or board to create a colony! Make a small scale sculpture tied to the history of found objects as art. What is more plentiful in an art room than a well-used brush that may not have been fully cleaned each time? Whether one large brush, or many glued together, they can be used as the base for an interesting mixed media portrait.

After the brush handle is cut, Paperclay makes the upper torso of the figure. Finish using small brushes, acrylic paint, and fine tip permanent markers. A pure white clay combined with a simple slab technique creates the base for a pierced porcelain vessel. With the use of various tools to add pattern and texture, and methods of piercing or puncturing the clay, the result is a beautiful version of an ancient technique. Start with a mask form and end up with an organic mixed media headpiece!

With a nod to artist and performer Nick Cave, begin with a rigid mask form as a base. Add the repurposed parts of bendable chipboard insect sculptures, other embellishments, and found materials. The result is a wearable and sculptural headdress! Make one for fun, or to make a statement!

Turn an old, discarded book into a weaving loom and create an amazing creation of paper and string. Punch a few holes in the pages, string a warp structure and bind, stitch, knot and weave between the lines! Look Through My Window. A dimensional self-portrait in the style of Edward Hopper.

What story would be revealed to a viewer looking at your life through a window? Create a floating artwork with markers, colored pencils or paint on waterproof Mineral Paper, fold it and float it! Assemble beads, wood turnings and wood shapes to make a small Kokeshi sculpture. These round, limbless figures can be self-portraits, characters, monsters or a reflection of a young artist's imagination.

Combine a hand traced onto clay with a proverb to create a dish imbued with old-fashioned wisdom. Use a simple cut slab and a set of letter stamps add a proverb to a functional ceramic piece. Add an easy-to-make foam stamp and colorful underglazes to make a hand-shaped dish with meaning.

What's left behind in a rear view mirror offers a lesson on one-point perspective. Create a three-dimensional rear view mirror using self adhesive mounting board, mirror board and markers. Make a natural notan landscape with the help of vibrantly colored and patterned papers! In Japan, "Notan" is the term used to express the visualization of light and dark as an element of design.

Add color, patterns and a landscape format, and something truly unique is created! Make an up-close-and-personal sketchbook or journal cover by creating a "face book" out of a cast and painted high relief face. Use quick mache to cast a face mold, then add modeling paste to customize the face. Create a realistic self-portrait, or morph the face into an animal or alien being! Finish with acrylic paint. Clay and Basket Fusion. Combine a fired clay pot with reeds and other materials like twine, lanyard material, wire or yarn to create a sculptural vessel that fuses two ancient traditions!

An upcycled paperback book serves as the basis for a lesson in form. Using french curves, a template of a Greek pottery form is made. Trace the template onto a book, cut the pages, and open the book to reveal a 3-D piece of paper pottery! Glue the Vase to a painted or collaged background for something truly unique. Utilizing discarded denim, this project is a salute to Jasper Johns' "Flag.