Painting like Dale Chihuly
A fantastic Lesson from Pepperpaints Painting Like Dale Chihuly Chihuly is well know for his glass works but his paintings and his painting style is also impressive. Click the picture […]
Category Archives: 4th Grade
Don’t cry over spilled paint
Let gravity do the work – Pendulum painting I remember playing with those plastic disks with the pencil holes in them. How precise and careful you had to be to exert […]
Abstract Expressionism – Go with it!
Abstract Expressionism has a shared history with the The Great Depression. This art method was a very colorful way to wake up our nation after a long struggle. Artists of […]
Emergency art lessons… pretty cool stuff
The school system in Anchorage has a pdf online for emergency art lessons. There’s a lesson for each greade k – 6. Here’s an example of a 4th Grade lesson: […]
Art Teacher Blog Directory
Art is Basic has a page on their blog chock full of links to art teacher blogs oozing with fabulous art lessons! Have a look at the page: http://vividlayers.blogspot.com/p/art-teacher-blog-directory.html
To Spin or not to Spin?
Paper plate spin art without the spinner Choose any paint you have on hand and have the child put dabs or lines of paint colors on the paper […]
Would you like fries with that?
Texture, balance and variety were elements students concentrated on as they created this collage of a big sandwich! You may want to refer to Claes Oldenburg and go for a […]
