by Dennas Davis | Oct 29, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have tons of fun learning the parts of cartoon faces and practicing how to put them all together. they'll finish with a final cartoon in marker outlines and coloring with layers of oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of November 3 – 7 1...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 22, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun drawing leaves from photos, and using oil pastels to color them. Then a straw and blow technique is used to create ink tree branches. The last project is to draw a tree in pencil and then wet the paper. Watercolors are used to create a soft...
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...
