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How to Draw a Lighthouse

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My goal with this drawing was to show students how curves could add a lot of dimension when trying to draw round shapes, such as this lighth...
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All American Father’s Day

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I traced this template from Keep Designing to make this art, but any hand drawn image would make a nice gift, too. 1. Using sharp, adult sc...
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Gold and Black Greek Vases

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My quest for multi-cultural art continues, which has led me to a new media combo that I really like. It’s using food wrap paper like this , ...
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Japanese Wind Sock Puppet

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This project was inspired by Gail at “That Artist Woman” blog.  I love the batik look, which usually requires hot wax and expensive dyes. ...
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Abstract Cat Face

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Let me just say, I adore this piece of art. It was made recently by a 2nd grader who was struggling with my suggestions of how to draw cat ...
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Father’s Day Watercolor Picture

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I love this old photo of my father on his John Deere tractor. The image was cut off a bit on the bottom, so for his card this year I made a ...
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Father’s Day Scratch Art

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This scratch art project was a huge hit. Also a mess, but so worth it when I heard students say “this is so cool!” 1. I found the perfect D...
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Kinder Self Portraits on Canvas ... Completed

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Here’s my favorite way to make canvas art for fundraisers. This is a composite of 125 kinder self-portraits, all done with permanent markers...
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Mondrian Abstract Circuitboard

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This project can introduce young students to the idea that not all art has to be about recognizable images. Some can just be about lines and...
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Kandinsky Cityscape

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Kandinsky is perhaps best known for his abstract work, but I personally love the rich city life paintings he made, such as “Houses in Munich...
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Keith Haring Drawing

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Keith Haring was one of the first artists to mix street art with the world of high art back in the 1980s. He got his start by decorating bi...
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Art Journaling 134, Tissue Paper Trees

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I’ve found that this combo of tissue paper and glue stick works really well to get delicate flat paper to lay flat, with a minimum amount of...
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Mark Rothko Abstract Art

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Mark Rothko emerged during the 1940s to create a new form of abstract painting. My goal was to have students think about the visual “weight”...
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My First Flower Painting

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This was a very successful introduction to painting lesson. If you have kids who have never painted before this is a good project to start w...
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Mandala Drawing on an Old CD

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A mandala is an abstract design that is usually circular in form. It is a Sanskrit word that means “circle”. ...
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Folk Art Bird Painting

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This cute bird painting is an example of Folk Art, which is primarily made by untrained artists. In this lesson I encouraged students to pai...
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Desert Landscape

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The first step in learning perspective is noticing that objects get smaller as they move away. I used this desert landscape theme to have st...
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How to Draw a Dog

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I’ve lately found that if I give my young kinder and 1st grade students a template to trace for just the first step of a project, they tend ...
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