by Dennas Davis | Sep 19, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students use drawing skills to create a large vase and flower collage with mixed media: Oil pastels, kraft paper, cutting, and gluing. Composition is worked on as they apply the shapes they’ve drawn and cut. – – – Grades K – 2 Week of...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 12, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun with a playful subject, underscoring the idea that “the joy of an artist will be evident in their finished art”. The concept of Air Shapes is revisited. Students learn to draw on “both sides of the line“, and draw the air inside a vase...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 12, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5
Painting Each lesson Plan focuses primarily on one of the 4 Cornerstones of Art: Drawing | Painting | Color | Style OVERVIEW Students will choose from a set of landscape photo references, and paint in acrylics on canvas. They’ll learn to show depth by using...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 11, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 6 - 12
Painting Each lesson Plan focuses primarily on one of the 4 Cornerstones of Art: Drawing | Painting | Color | Style OVERVIEW Students will choose from a set of landscape photo references, and paint in acrylics on canvas. They’ll learn to show depth by using...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 5, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW This is a great lesson for learning a basic concept for drawing accurately, but without the students getting bogged down in lesson concepts. When drawing it helps artists to be able to draw the air shapes (negative shapes) that are in-between other things. It...
