Art for high school

Middle School students will dive right into this awesome lesson that focuses on the principle of perspective while designing a 3D looking aquarium.

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

High School Art Projects that Students LOVE! Art projects need to challenge and engage the students in design and technique while engaging their interests

Middle school art lessons, zentangle art, still life art project that teaches how to use emphasis in art!

have each student create a card. Idea for high school art lesson.

Middle School artists began the year by looking at the art Guiseppe Arcimboldo, a Renaissance painter who created portraits made up of other objects (such as fruit, vegetables and birds). The students took this concept and made it their own by filling their own silhouette with images of things that tell something about themselves. Students used pencil, ink and watercolors to complete their works.

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After painting in my high school 2D Boot Camp, students also tried out collage and printmaking. For collage, I had each student make a small torn paper work. I was inspired to try out torn paper collage a couple years ago when I came across the work of Elizabeth St. Hilaire who is known for her "paper paintings". It was kind of a refreshing way to approach collage since it was so different than what I'd done before. I gave students the option of doing a collage on paper that was around 5x7…

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The Circle Game asks students to come up with as many different things as they can from one circle. I thought this activity was really fun! However, my elementary students were not that interested. Most of my kids' papers were dull circles with a scribble on them. I think older kids might "get it" better. I have included the handout from Ande Cook's Art Starters as well as my lesson plan with all the directions for a sub. The Ande Cook handouts were part of a SchoolArts subscription, or you…

Working on shading with colored pencil and shading pencils, the JH art students create OP Art hand drawings.

Op Art Cubes...ooooo paper sculpting idea?