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After nearly a decade of teaching secondary students, I've had a lot of time to test out a variety of 2d art projects. Let's face it: as teachers, sometimes we plan and plan and plan. We are so excited to deliver the project, and then... it flops. Students are uninterested and the final products aren't

Have you ever wanted to have your students create an expressive work of art, but didn't know where to start? Last year I took a workshop at the Expressive Arts Institute in San Diego. It was an amazing weekend that opened up my mind to the possibilities of working through emotions in art. There was one exercise that I really loved and I immediately saw how it could benefit teenagers. I tweaked it a little bit for my high school art class, and I can honestly say it was the best art project I…

High School art students create self-portraits with charcoal on reclaimed cardboard. Read the full art lesson.

VA Comp will begin working on their monochromatic self portraits today. They will first take an expressive selfie and alter it using pixlr.com .They will then draw out their contour sketch onto a...

"Illuminate art class with this Value Shading Worksheet Packet! Guide your students step-by-step through shading skills of basic forms to a captivating lighthouse scene. Inclusive, scaffolded learning for success. #ArtEducation"

Art I students are beginning a new project that combines their skills in both graphite and colored pencils. Here is a detail from one of th...

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in betwee...

examples of monochromatic cubes | shading | 3-D | art class

'value cubes' (SRJC) in High key & low key value range