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Happy New Year’s Card

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I’ve collected a variety of decorative letters from clipartETC.com and arranged them on a jpeg file that you can print and hand color for a...
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Tissue Paper Poinsettias

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Tearing shapes from tissue paper can create some very organic shapes, and end up looking pretty similar to poinsettia leaves. 1. Give each s...
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Abstract Shape Drawing

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I’m finding that almost anything looks good when drawn on black paper, and colored heavily with oil pastels. This is more of an exercise, bu...
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Pastel Penguin

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Penguins are a very popular subject matter. Looking at some large photos before beginning will give students a chance to see colors and deta...
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Nutcracker Painting

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One way to have students draw LARGE is to instruct them that their art must touch the top and the bottom of a piece of paper. 1. This projec...
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Crayon Resist Snowflakes

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If you go to the holiday decoration section at Michael’s, you can find these amazing laser-cut wood snowflake decorations that are cheap (ab...
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Watercolor Resist Snowflakes

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Here's a simple crayon and watercolor painting idea that was inspired by an illustration on a stock art website. 1. As the students will...
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Acrylic Dry Brush Landscape Painting

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This lesson was to show young students how to layer color when painting with opaque paints, such as acrylic or tempera. Their tendency is to...
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Watercolor Still Life

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When it comes to painting, most children need to practice looking at subtle changes in color. The skilled student may already see this, but ...
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Rousseau Tiger Drawing

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Henri Rousseau was a French artist that lived in the late 1800s. He tried to paint in the schooled manner of the traditional artists, but it...
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Snowman on Skis

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I sometimes look at stock illustrations on websites like gettyone.com for inspiration. I found a simple drawing of a snowman on skis that I ...
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Close Crop Snowman

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Drawing closeup and cropping out what is unnecessary can make just about any artwork more interesting. The tendency is for students to draw ...
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Oil Pastel Snowman

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This is a little twist (literally) on the usual snowman drawing. It asks students to think about circles can become spheres and have a 3-dim...
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Fine Line Marker Leaves

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I find a lot of inspiration at stock art sites like gettyone.com and istock.com. This came from a leaf illustration, which is simpler than i...
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Pumpkin Tissue Paper Painting

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Some tissue paper has an amazing ability to bleed when it is mixed with water. Cut-up squares can be used to control the color and make an e...
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Paul Klee Portrait

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Paul Klee was a Swiss artist from the early 1900's who liked to turn things he saw into simple geometric shapes. His “Head of A Man” i...
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Abstract Winter Trees

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A simple illustration I came across in a website inspired this project. 1. Give the students 2 different sizes of narrow triangle cardboard ...
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Hundertwasser Landscape

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I was inspired by one of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s paintings to make this abstract landscape. 1. I cut a wavy rectangular shape of green...
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Winter Cardinal

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I’ve been looking for a nice colorful winter image for a holiday fundraiser, and was inspired by an image I found in a stock photo site. 1. ...
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Positive/Negative Drawing

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The words “positive” and “negative” can be used to describe both shapes and lines. This is a simple exercise which uses examples of both. 1....
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Art Journaling 119

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You can make your own art journal for just a few dollars, with just a little binding help from a Staples or Kinko's store. 1. I like to ...
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Arcimboldo “Fruit Face”

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian artist from the 1500s who spent years working as an official court painter. He developed a style of compo...
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Art Journaling 118

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I think my biggest goal for my upcoming art journal class is to have kids embrace the loose, accidental art that can happen when you let you...
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Mache Pumpkin from Plastic Bags

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This pumpkin is made from about 40 plastic grocery bags, some Saran wrap, 3 rubber bands, newspaper, paper towel and mache, topped off with ...
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Art Journaling 117

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This is another drawing inspired by the Austrian abstract artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser . His philosophy about nature is very reflecti...
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Art Journaling 116

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Aluminum foil and Sharpies are at work here, in addition to some extra texture rubbing. 1. This idea comes from “The Usborne Book of Art Pro...
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Art Journaling 115

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Some of the best art journal pages I’ve seen just seem to just have a sense of freedom to them. I think that’s going to be my number one goa...
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First Flower Painting

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This project makes for a great introduction to painting. And if you give students just the primary colors or red, yellow and blue, they can ...
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Torn Duck Collage

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I adore torn edges. They have a way of making shapes that would never happen if you started cutting away with a pair of scissors. 1. Find tw...
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Me & My Goals Self Portrait

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This was inspired by a New Jersey middle school posting you can see HERE . Drawing just the top face allows a focus on the eyes, and the beg...
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Art Journaling 114

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I used two laws of perspective to help give this spread some depth. One is that with distance, similar shapes appear to get smaller, and two...
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Art Journaling 113

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I started with one of my favorite poems, “The Wise Owl” for this 2-page spread layout. 1. I really love the look of white on dark journal pa...
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Art Journaling 112

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This is another 2-page art journal spread, this time on the topic of dreaming. 1. I plan to give the students a rectangle to trace, one appr...
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