by Dennas Davis | Aug 17, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12
OVERVIEW Students will learn how to create ink work with a dipping ink pen & metal nib. Animal photos are provided for reference, and the interior will be filled with expressive patterns, commonly called zen tangles. Creations students (advanced) will move more...
by Dennas Davis | Aug 9, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Lessons > Grades 6 - 12, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will create a painting of a still life with shiny colorful peppers. After underpainting, they will fill each object with local color and finish by adding shadows, then light areas, and finally highlights. – – – Grades 3 – 5 1...
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 | 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. – – –...
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...
