These landscape watercolor paintings inspired by Claude Monet and the Impressionists are sure to bring calm to your classroom ! When goin...

This watercolor lesson for beginners is a great way to learn about watercolor techniques in a fun, exciting lesson that is easy for beginning artists to create a successful painting.

We looked at the work of contemporary Dutch painter Ton Schulten (1938). He is loved for his colorful, vibrant landscapes depicting his native countryside, his use of horizontal and vertical lines which create a mosaic-like landscape made up of blocks of color, and his bright central light. His unique style of painting has been coined 'Concensism'. Process: After discussing his use of line and color we began to draw our own landscape. Utilizing the 'rule of thirds' (foreground, middle…

Inspired by the Kandinsky’s landscapes | arteascuola

partner activity- laminate photos and have students use expo markers to outline the three different parts of a landscape.

For me, even a simple landscape painting needs to have three basic elements. A foreground, midground and background. How those three elements are handled will

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On my way in to school this morning, IT SNOWED! Well...it "snowed" Tennessee style. It looked like a blizzard of dandruff bits but for us in the South, that means a lot! It put me in the mood for all things winter and so I thought I'd put together a list of my Top Ten Favorite Winter Art Lessons. If you follow the link on each of these, you'll find a video for most and a lesson for all. Let's go! SNOW GLOBE CITIES! This lesson was a hit with my fourth graders last year. They really loved…

Year 6 sketched the bones of these stylised and vertically-orientated landscapes in pencil and then traced over these with black textas before adding different repeating patterns in each section. The students used a combination of coloured pens, textas and pencils to achieve the textured appearance. This is a lesson I copied verbatim from Miriam at artescuola.com - it's one of my favourite blogs! I showed the children the work of Miriam's students on the other side of the world, which really…

Road-scapes Grant Haffner Style.... Elementary and Middle School ArtMixed Media Road Trip Landscape Art Lesson, Grant Haffner styleI have been preparing art lessons for the next school year. Recently, I gave this lesson a test run... I taught it online to my art club students in Vancouver, BC. They are elementary students (ages 6-12) They enjoyed the introduction to one point perspective and learning about contemporary artist, Grant Haffner. Here you can see what they created in one hour…