"Small Still Life Paintings ala Courbet"

Students review art history in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. In this art history lesson, students discuss art vocabulary emphasizing landscape, portrait, and still life. They visit the museum and create their own pictures. 

Third graders discover geometric shapes by drawing everyday still objects.  In this illustration lesson, 3rd graders discuss drawing techniques applying to still life and practice these techniques in class.  Students  identify the...

Color dominance is a prominent concept in still life painting. Fifth graders practice using specific brush techniques as they explore color dominance in their own still life paintings. The lesson comes with a handy assessment tool, a...

Provide your young artists with an opportunity to study the masters and their techniques to become skilled at drawing still life. They discuss and view images from artists like Degas and Michelangelo, practice drawing techniques such as...

Learners draw, and then paint three-dimensional bottles to practice shading which shows shape and perspective. The step-by-step process for creating dimensional still life art is outlined, which makes teaching art an attainable task. Oil...

A still life with tissue paper? Why not! Using Paul Cézanne's art as inspiration, learners create their own still life pictures by gluing various colors of tissue paper onto a paper or pattern.

Students investigate abstract artists as storytellers.  In this art analysis instructional activity, students observe the small details in the painting called "Release Your Plans" by Daniel Sprick.  Students collaborate in groups to...

Students use a still life to make a drawing and then transfer to a styrofoam plate to use as a method of printing.

Students explore lines and texture in a still-life painting. In this visual arts lesson, students study William Merrit Chase's painting "Still Life With Fish" and discuss the lines in the painting. Students choose a line to repeat in...

All living things grow and change throughout their lives, but few as dramatically as the monarch butterfly. Explore the interesting life cycle of this insect as children collect caterpillars, create habitats, and observe the incredible...