Young scholars examine images from newspapers, the photo cropping process, and create their own photos to tell a story. In this photography analysis lesson, students analyze a photograph using the elements of art and analyze their own...

Students identify and apply painting skills used by Vincent Van Gogh.

Learning to create depth when painting or drawing takes skill and the ability to understand how things should be placed on the canvas. The class will use the Charles Deas painting Long Jakes to learn about composition, sharing...

First graders discover the two color families and how artists use the colors to express mood or feeling. Students paint pictures using water colors of an apple tree and include background, middle ground, and foreground in their scene.

Students watch a demonstration of wet on wet, dry on wet and dry on dry watercolor painting. They create an underdrawing, fill in washes of color and create a foreground, middleground and background once the washes dry. They add final...

Students create a landscape or cityscape.  In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Students choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three...

Students compare and contrast modern life art in the works of Hilaire-Germain Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne. In this art analysis lesson, students compare and contrast the two paintings. Students complete image based discussion. Students...

Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self...

Students explore visual arts by examining a diorama in class. In this geography lesson, students examine an island off the coast of New Zealand and identify the physical attributes of the land. Students answer study questions...

Students study the life and art style of Henri Matisse. They view various prints from his early and late art styles. Then students draw something they enjoy and cut out pieces of colored construction paper and glue them onto pieces of...

Students discuss methods of building forms with clay (ball and variations, snake, flat sheets). They draw a stick figure of what their sculpture may look like, including correct figure proportion.

Students discuss elements of fairy tales, examine selected piece of Robert Harris' art, and compose fairy tales based on what they see and imagine. Students then view homes in Harris' artwork collection, create home in which they would...

Students compare and contrast the landscape works of Thomas Cole and Vincent Van Gogh. In this landscapes lesson, students understand vocabulary related to artworks. Students compare and contrast the artists work through a Venn diagram....

Students examine the effects of war on civilians. In this Vietnam War lesson, students research and discuss the reasons the Vietnam War began, why America became involved, and what some of the long-term effects of this war were.

Students examine the aftermath of war. In this Vietnam War lesson, students consider the implications of war as they analyze the image Siege of An Loc, South Vietnam. Students discuss the causes of the war and the outcome prior to...

Students utilize Painter Classic to fill in a canvas with bright colors. They paint with the opaque and smeary brushes as they create a new layer on top of the colored canvas with the proper icon on the palette. In addition, they have an...

Students explore three topics of elements of art in this seven lessons unit. An overview of light, space, figure, ground, pattern, balance and symmetry are presented in this unit.

Third graders consider space and the techniques artists use to create three-dimensionality within a painting or drawing. They examine works by Millet, Bruegel and Demuth and then create original drawings that explore the effects of...

Middle schoolers examine the evolution of landscape painting in France from the 17th to the 19th century. They study and compare three landscape paintings, emphasizing space, depth, and the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and...

First graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.

For this perspective worksheet, students view a painting by De Vlaminck. They create their own version of the painting by coloring an included line drawing. Students are challenged to use dark colors in the foreground and lighter, bluer...

Students create paintings in the style of art known as pointillism.

Students view four sections of one of Haring's paintings. They describe the people and characters they see. Students participate in a variety of classroom art activities such as: Making a treasure box modeled after Keith Haring's work,...

Learners detect specific characteristics in the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. For this collage lesson, students utilize the style of Jacob Lawrence to create works about Harriet Tubman and her life.