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Mythical Horses
Art 1: This artwork is inspired by the Mythical Horses series by artist Laurel Burch. This specific style utilizes a “watercolor resist” technique, where patterns are drawn with crayons before painting over them with watercolors
Colored Pencil Cherries
Art 2: Learning to create realistic highlights and shadows with colored pencils. Creating depth by using darker, cooler tones for shadows and lighter, warmer tones for highlights
Disco Chicken
Art 2: National Dance Like a Chicken Day is celebrated on May 14 so students created Disco Chickens using markers!
Acrylic Sloth
Art 1: Did you know that sloth groups can be easily identified by the number of long, curved claws on their forelimbs? Students learn cool facts about Sloths as they learn to use acrylic paint.
Watercolor and Pen Lighthouse
Art 2: Students draw with pen and ink and paint with watercolor in this lesson that features a line and wash image of a lighthouse.
Johnathan Green Art
Art 2: Using colored pencils, students celebrate the art of painter and printmaker Jonathan Green, considered one of the most important contemporary painters of the Southern experience.
New England Barns
Art 2: Students used proper perspective techniques when drawing these New England barns.
Monochromatic Painting
Art 2: Monochromatic colors are all the variations (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue. This student applied monochromatic colors using acrylic paint to this sweet penguin and titled her art “Learning to Walk.”
Copying a Master
Art 2: Students choose a Master (famous artist that they like) and apply their acrylic painting skills to the art. This student chose the art style of Degas and titled her art “Slipper.”
Graphite Pencil Shading
Art 2: Graphite pencil techniques were used to create shadows and highlights on this portrait.
Lake with Oil Pastels
Art 2: Oil pastel techniques are taught while creating the sun reflecting on water.
Western Boots
Art 1: Cowboy boots did not originate in America but in Mongolia, England, or Spain, depending on who you ask. In truth, no one is 100% sure. Chalk pastels were used to create these fun western boots.
Inked Squirrel
Art 2: Pen and ink is a very good medium for rendering the bristly texture of fur and ideally suited to this squirrel.
ABORIGINAL ART
Art 2: Students create an Aboriginal style X-Ray painting of a barramundi fish inspired by what they have learned about traditional bark painting techniques and different styles of Aboriginal art.
Snowy Owl
Art 2: This acrylic painting lesson demonstrates how to paint a snow owl perched on a rustic wooden post.