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- 6th - 12th
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Students learn 3-step process starting with watercolor painting, then learning to cut warps and wefts. They weave the two together and glue result onto colored paper. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students mimic Impressionist artists by creating paintings that show dominant shades of complimentary colors, use dots, dabs, and swirls in their painting to make their scene, and show a particular time of day and the lighting present at that time. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the history of bark paintings in South America as well as the purpose, processes, and symbolism found in typical bark paintings. They, using the Internet, explore and research the creation of Bark paintings in Latin America. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain the innovations in painting as a result of the invention of oil paint during the Renaissance. They see the differences between egg tempera paintings of the early Renaissance and oil paintings of the middle and late Renaissance. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain the development of different paints and their properties during the Renaissance. They reproduce the properties of egg tempera paint and distinguish between egg tempera paintings and oil paintings. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the Amate Bark Paintings, a folk art from Latin America. They explore the history and symbolism of typical bark paintings and produce their own version of a bark painting. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students experience the "way it was" by studying the art of frontier America, the paintings of the expanding west, and wide-open spaces and landscapes which encouraged the great push westward. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students examine portraits and paintings. They create their own self-portrait. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students view a variety of artwork to determine the history and lifestyle of people from New Haven, Connecticut. In groups, they develop their individual hypothesis about why the paintings were created and share them with their group members to create a consensus. They end the lesson by creating their own piece of art on a topic they are interested in. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students create mixed media still life paintings in this "Happy Accident" art lesson introducing the concepts of using pen and ink, watercolors, and pastels. The lesson can be adapted for various grade levels and abilities ranging from 4th grade through high school. Full Review »

