Big 3D Installation – Foundations May 11 – 15
Today, artists must work together as a team and combine a few boxes into a 3D sculpture and/or installation that has a theme and incorporates everyone’s efforts and style into one final work.
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Category: Video Demos
Teacher Boost Magazine March 2019
March Teacher Boost includes 1. Color Schemes, 2. Brain Connections, 3. How to Teach Proportions, 4. Materials: Modeling Clay, 5. a PDF Modeling Clay chart, 6. Upcoming lesson plans
Read MoreFL Eye Lesson
OVERVIEW This week is the beginning of our winter anatomy lessons on the parts of the face. Students will sculpt a human eye as they follow along with a video. They’ll learn to draw accurate eyes by understanding the form and...
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Quick Lesson Plan Walk-Through
How-To Video This 4-minute video walks you through a lesson plan from top to...
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Pocket Point – How To Make Black
Instead of pulling out a tube of black paint, which typically deadens colors, The Art Instructor...
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More Pocket Pointers With Subscription
Target your students who need help with these 5-minute illuminating lessons.
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Teacher Boost Magazine January 2019
January’s Teacher Boost includes 1. color mixing, 2. how to talk about drawings, 3. Big Shapes / @drawhandchallenge Instagram resource, 4. materials: pencils and 5. a PDF pencil chart.
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How to deal with acrylic paint accidents
Need to fix a painting that got a blob of paint on it? how about that new pair of pants you shouldn’t have worn to art class? Here’s how to fix ’em.
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Teacher Boost May 2018
Every art teacher could use a little boost ISSUE TWO | MAY 2018 a mini magazine for subscribers of...
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6 Principles of Design Poster
A poster in 4 versions: all PDFs. 2 are copy paper sized and 2 are large and can be printed on large format, or on 4 sheets of paper and taped together.
Read MoreInline text bug video
New Video – How the text edit bar covers the area being worked in, and constantly disrupts the workflow. Inline text edit bug (already...
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Teacher Boost April 2018
Our first issue of Teacher Boost, a mini magazine just for art teachers. Free to our mailing list friends.
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Quit doing that
Introduction I first titled this article “Learners vs. Keepers” and expected to write about how...
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How to use The Art Instructor Lessons
A 30-second guide to using our powerful, yet easy lesson plans.
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The Art Supply List
Here’s our supply list with photos and descriptions. We’ve used these things for years! They all balance usefulness with economy.
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Doodle-Brain
What happens when students doodle while you’re talking? Science and experience says it’s all good!
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Previews of Articles
These posts are real articles and give you a preview of what you’ll get when you sign up as a member of The Art Instructor.
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Sample Foundations+ Lesson
MONTH • WEEK • This is a real lesson that you can use for free to check out the Art Instructor. 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 acrylic painting is begun.
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COLOR tip of the day
Here’s a tip about color from our founder, Dennas Davis.
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Sample Foundations Lesson
MONTH • WEEK • This is a real lesson that you can use for free to check out the Art Instructor. 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 acrylic painting is begun.
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SCROLL & TEACH
Never worry about an art lesson again. Read it over, prep your area with our checklist, and use our easy SCROLL & TEACH lesson plan right on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Learn more about our revolutionary CONN3CTED curriculum by clicking the 3-legged stool below.
Video Walk-Through
This walk-through video uses our sister site, The Art Instructor, but the set up is exactly the same.
