Still Life Printmaking

Introduce young artists to still life drawing with a handout that details the basic steps in the creation of these works.

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...

Showing light and shadow in a drawing or painting is trickier than it looks. After viewing famous examples of still-life paintings, young artists use shading techniques in their own art to emphasize the contrast between light and shadow.

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 the Realism movement. In this Realism art movement lesson, students explore the movement and evaluate the elements of still life painting. Students compare the Realism movement to other 19th century art movements.

Fully analyze the elements of art and unexpected beauty in the William Merritt Chase's Still Life with a Fish. The class will examine the painting very closely, then use photography to express unexpected beauty in still life. This is a...

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...

Students discuss still life painting and the Realism style of art. They plan a personal narrative still life drawing, complete the project and present it to the class.

Sixth graders engage in a visual arts activity featuring still life sketching and watercolor painting created by individual students.