by Carrie Hull | Apr 11, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 6 - 12, Teachers@Firstlight
Color Each lesson Plan focuses primarily on one of the 4 Cornerstones of Art: Drawing | Painting | Color | Style OVERVIEW Everyone should work to finish their mid-tone still life painting, and then if there is time, move into the last color journal of the year –...
by Carrie Hull | Aug 7, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12
OVERVIEW Everyone gets a chance to use learned skills and freedom to choose what to do with an exciting “Treasure Hunt” for different elements of art. It’s also a great day for finishing existing works such as the complimented animals or palette knife paintings....
by Carrie Hull | Aug 7, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students learn about 2 important, yet different types of drawing: expressive work from memory, and more realistic work using observation. The main point is that these are both valid directions to take, but that they don’t tend to mix well in one piece of art....
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 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. – – –...
