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Never having delved into the work of MC Escher as a source of inspiration for my art classes, I decided  it was high time. We viewed a video...

My middle school students worked hard on their oral presentations right before finals, so I wanted to give them art project that was engagin...

For this project I showed my students videos about Dalí. They learned how he was influenced by his dreams and subconscious. They learned tha...

For our first project this year I taught my middle school art class about Henri Matisse and his collages. Matisse was a prolific painter who...

One of the concepts we want our middle and high school art students to learn in the beginning classes is perspective. This can be a tough on...

In a color scale exercise, my middle and high school students learned the value of using a color's complement (red/green, blue/orange, y...

So I've started teaching my middle and high school students about color and paint. Their first task was to paint in a color wheel with t...

A while back, at the beginning of the semester, I wanted to focus on the element of Line with my HS and MS students. The assignment was to m...

For this second semester of middle school computers my goal is to get the kids both comfortable and excited about the process of programming...

For the final project Fall Semester I wanted the kids to do something fun while also demonstrating their acquired drawing skills. I let them...

Last semester in middle school computers we learned some keyboarding skills, how to format in and work with Microsoft Word, and do a little ...