by Carrie Hull | Jul 27, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12
OVERVIEW Continuing with painting, students will learn how to use the palette knife technique before working on a landscape. There are specific colors that must be mixed and used side by side. This helps artists see how expanding your colors to several variations...
by Dennas Davis | Jul 27, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will have fun making bouncy spiral snakes with their own designs by drawing on our printed pdf snake templates. Then everyone is introduced to clay with playdough for a warmup, before moving into an 3D project of an animal that they’ll be able to...
by Carrie Hull | Jul 23, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12
OVERVIEW This is one of two lessons about portraits. Today everyone will work on accuracy, while also learning how observation helps accuracy more than anything else. There is a memory drawing game and an oil pastel copy of a Van Gogh portrait. – – –...
by Carrie Hull | Jul 23, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Young artists will have a blast learning how printmaking works and creating their own sets of images. Stations make it easy and keeps everyone moving as they draw ideas, make printing plates from styrofoam, then add ink, and print them onto paper. Then they...
by Carrie Hull | Jul 13, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will learn how to push their ideas and think creatively. Several exercises are used, along with dialog, to understand how to get outside the normal boundaries and use their imaginations along with their pencils. After idea thumbnails and sketches, an...
