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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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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the elements of composition in various artworks. They analyze and discuss paintings, explore "The National Gallery of Art" website, identify the shape of compositions in paintings, and draw a diagram. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine and identify the elements of composition in a variety of artworks. They discuss various artworks, explore websites, and identify how composition elements make the work successful as a painting. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate line in the composition of a number of art works. They examine compositional choices made by the artist. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how artists create a story that provides a message or provokes emotions in a single image. The ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message is examined in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate and critique both their own and other students work while creating their own art pieces in this two-week lesson. This can be combined with a photography lesson to form a unit of study on Compositional techniques. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students examine samples of the work of artist, Leon Polk Smith. They explore and examine the hard edge painting method as it is used by Smith. Using particular colors, they demonstrate the use of correct techniques and skills in creating their own hard edge painting. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create still-life oil paintings using basic art supplies and oil paints in this Art lesson for the high school classroom. The lesson includes a vocabulary list, ideas for still-life subjects, examples of student work, and curriculum standards met. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students write a critical analysis describing the characteristics of the painting Composition with Circles by Alexander Calder. They view how he used balance, color, mood evoking strokes, symmetry and texture in his creative piece of art. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students describe the characteristics of the painting "Composition with Circles" by Alexander Calder. They are told that the artist was born in Pennsylvania. Students describe the colors and how the colors make them feel. They discuss the texture of the picture. Students are asked to describe the shapes they see in terms of lines. Full Review »
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