11th-grade IB Visual Arts cohort made these a long time back, but I wasn't allowed to publish these until now (IB rules). Students' only constraint was that they painted using a limited palette, which they selected from a bank of 20 paintings.
Each canvas shown below is VERY LARGE, so click to expand:
10th-grade Art Lesson:
When I was in school, my art classes never taught perspective. Blessing in disguise, because I learned from a wonderful book linked at the bottom of this post. That book took me farther down the rabbit hole than any reasonable kid would go (ex: book got me sketching praying mantises and alligators in perspective). Nothing has increased my breadth as an artist more than leveling up my perspective drawing skills.
One cool thing about teaching perspective: students who do well here are often different from those who do well with the other art lessons I run. But be warned that this is a challenging lesson for all students, and you'll be working closely with each of them to get their paintings across the finish line.
Accommodation for weaker students: They may work in monochromatic watercolor.
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The students are charged with designing an interior for a themed resort hotel (themes = haunted forest theme, cats theme, pirate theme, and so on).
They have to figure out lighting and how to render their interesting interior objects in perspective, with cast shadows, etc. Top examples:
