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Layered Landscape
With a pencil, sketch the landscape in layers. Ideas: grass, bushes, trees, mountains, body of water, sky with clouds. Outline the important parts, then...
Fauve Flowers
Study a flower for your fauve flower study. Draw the flower outline lightly in pencil. Your flower can go off the edge of the paper. Sketch in the details...
Fanciful Pet Portraits
Have students choose an animal to look at while drawing. Becca Fischer looks at a photo to create her work. First sketch in pencil. Next, you may want to...
Hot Colors Desert
Encourage students to draw something they would see in a desert with the hot colors. To fill up the entire paper, provide a watercolor wash to paint over...
Color Texture Drawings
The student will sketch the animal or subject matter on the white paper, drawing large enough to fill the paper. After sketching the picture with pencil,...
Cityscape – City on the Water
Draw a horizon line across your page. Place several rectangles along the top of the line. Fill the rectangles with shapes to represent windows and doors....
Floating Donuts
Use watercolors in a wet-on-wet method to paint the background. (Paint the paper first with water and then add the watercolors onto the page.) Allow dry...
Flamingo Painting
With the pink PlayColor stick, draw the head, body, neck and wings of the flamingo. Add additional PlayColors to the pink such as yellow, red, and/or blue....
STEAM in the Classroom
The video below contains two great lesson plans that show how you can successfully incorporate art into your STEM/STEAM classroom. Your students will love...
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