Lesson for 9th grade, 6 weeks, acrylics or gouache Above: Kotoko and Maxine develop their paintings, inspired by the styles and colors in...

Lesson for 9th or 10th, 5 weeks, acrylic

  Lesson for 9th grade,   15-20 days, charcoal on toned paper By now the students had made 7 practice drawings ( described in Part 1 ), and ...

9th grade unit, 10-13 days:   This is a beginner-friendly unit, but it asks a LOT from students. They'll have to struggle and practice t...

7th Graders made the castles above from sketchup models. Students spent 2-3 days learning sketchup as described in << this old post ...

Tactics for 11th and 12th. This semester, tens of thousands of secondary art teachers gave presentations on good composition. All probably t...

From Sketchup to Dzine.ai 7th grade design lesson:

Imagine that each high school student stands on a ladder representing their lifetime growth as an artist. But usually, the students can'...

student work, 7 score New IB visual arts teachers struggle to accurately score their IAs because they don't know what a 4, 5, 6, and 7 l...

 Lesson for 7th - 10th, 3 weeks: Inspired by << Typefight >>, the 3-year-long graphic design tournament. Students design an illu...

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' ...

10th-grade Art Lesson:   When I was in school, my art classes never taught perspective. Blessing in disguise, because I learned from a wonde...

Lesson for 7th grade  Students started by copying < trees > by Brayden Barrett. Next, they spent a couple days learning basic linear p...

Lesson for 9th or 10th grade ,  2 weeks, acrylics I hadn't done this lesson in years, but I forgot how quickly it goes. It was perfect f...

  Lesson for  9th grade,  ceramics Students study historic aircraft and spacecraft as they design these shoes. I told them to imagine they h...