by Dennas Davis | Oct 15, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will spend the whole day creating and working with lines: line inventing; color line art; charcoal line art; backwards line art (white on black paper); and a line art game. Grades 1 – 2 Week of October 20 – 24 1 Hour & 30 Minutes...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 1, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students are introduced to an important design element, The Most Important Spot, (emphasis). We hunt for shapes, using tracing paper to capture them from photos. Students will also work with warm vs. cool colors using oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 24, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have fun drawing and painting pigs in several projects. Simple shapes and symbols help us create pig cartoons with different expressions. More realistic pigs are drawn from photo reference, colors are mixed, and then they will paint the pig...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 17, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students use warm & cool colored oil pastels in a fish drawing, working on movement and technique. The imagination is employed to invent a new idea - using household tools to create fish. They'll finish the work using watercolors, and then use oil pastels to...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 10, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
Lesson At A Glance A brief overview of each step. Buttons jump to each section for detailed information. 1. warmup 15 Minutes -Artists’ Choice 2. Color dance 15 Min – Use oil pastels 3. discuss 10 Min – Discuss air shapes. Show examples. 4....
by Dennas Davis | Sep 3, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will learn about shapes that are made up of air, and are in-between other shapes, and how it helps to draw things if you look at these shapes in addition to solid shapes. Grades 1 – 2 Week of September 8 – 12 1 Hour & 30 Minutes...
