Study Mondrian Born in 1872, Piet Mondrian fascinates me as an artist. Perhaps at first glance you might say, “Well anyone can make that, it’s simple!” At first glace you are right. That was the whole point! If you begin to dig deeper and think about this style with the eyes of an artist, you […]
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Best Pinterest Boards for Art
Best Pinterest Boards for Art One of my favorite ways to get inspired for teaching art is to get on Pinterest and start looking at the best Pinterest boards for art. There are many great teachers out there but it’s not always easy to find them and their examples just from a search engine. I […]
End of Year Black and White Art Party
Celebrate the end of the year with a Black and White Art Party. My co-op classes just got finished with some basic color theory and so I thought the perfect end to the year would be a quick review on contrast and positive and negative space while allowing them to pick their own art projects going […]
Scissor Style Like Henri Matisse Art Lesson
Up till now I haven’t had my students do much cutting with scissors. In fact, I do a lot of pre-cutting because it saves a great deal of time in a class setting from a teaching perspective. It was time for my students to do some cutting and this was the perfect lesson for it! […]
Dance With Degas: How to Draw a Ballerina
I draw ballerinas all the time now, I just needed someone to show me how. ~Aubriel It was music to an art teachers ears. One of my students said this the other day and it made me so very happy. I was nervous about teaching 1-3rd graders to draw ballerinas for our Edgar Degas lesson. […]