Scheming with Colors

Get crafting with hundreds of pages of art lessons! The plans are organized into topics, which include clay, drawing, composition and design, mixed media, painting, printmaking, and paper.

Middle schoolers explore the art of film with this carefully scaffolded series of lessons that introduces film genres, explores the narrative structure of films, and uses The Day the Earth Stood Still to model how to become active...

Begin your elementary art lesson with an informative look into Andy Warhol's reductive printmaking. Gain insight into the artist's background, importance in the art world, and create an original design using reductive styrofoam...

Students view a film about Hans Hofman and consider his use of color and layering. They experiment with the concept of 'push and pull' by using warm and cool color schemes in a tracing of leaves and shapes. Students view their work using...

Students examine the use of color by Bouguereau. For this visual art color lesson, students experiment painting their own self-portrait. Students will see art as a type of communication, and analyze art and the meaning of paintings.

Learners use a monochromatic palate, select shades and tints for a selected hue, or select complimentary or analogous colors for a quilt design. They design quilt squares using basic geometric shapes, repetition, balance, and proportion.

Pointillism is the focus of a lesson that asks young artists to compare Vance Kirkland's painting style with aboriginal dot art, and then to produce their own piece of dot art.

Students experiment with color and symbols to create three art studies that are expressive of mood, feelings and ideas, experiment with using a computer paint and draw program, and write an art criticism paper about their artwork.

Young scholars recognize the importance of loyalty to their school by identifying their school colors, mascot, logo, song, initials, and/or slogan. They then demonstrate school spirit by creating colorful "spirit wear" with articles of...

Pupils are shown a PowerPoint presentation on the various color schemes. As a class, they are shown the same color scheme in the classroom on paper. They are introduced to new vocabulary and review the color wheel. To end the lesson,...