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Animals
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Ed Emberly's Picture Pie Animals
Using fractions of a circle to create animals.
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Dinosaurs
They roamed the earth before there were artists. Art based
on scientific evidence.
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Cave Paintings
Cave dwellers painted animals on the rock walls as a grocery list
of sorts! Drawing on a rough surface with paint and chalk.
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Cats and Dogs
What's your favorite? Watercolor paintings.
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Australian Aboriginal Animal
Art Exploring Australia's weird menagerie with
bleach and oil pastels.
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Audubon's Birds A look
at John James Audubon and feathered friends from our own backyards.
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Animal Portraits
Close-up views of the animal's face. Using strange colors
"a la Warhol" and a border to boot.
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Animal Masks
Masks are made by many cultures. Making an animal mask.
What animal will you be?
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Animal Astronauts
Animals were the first astronauts. Create one of your own
and put him in the blackness of space.
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3-D Fish
A beautiful stuffed watercolor fish to hang from the ceiling.
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Snakes Alive!
A lesson in pattern and overlapping.
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Oaxacan Sculptures
Animal sculptures of cardboard in the colorful style of the Oaxacan
Indians of Mexico.
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Oaxacan Animals
Animals in the colorful style of the Oaxacan Indians of Mexico.
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Ivory Cats
Creating a cat composition in the style of artist Lesly Anne Ivory.
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Henri Rousseau's Jungle
Create a jungle like French artist Henri Rousseau. Use plant
templates and add your own animals using marker and crayon combination.
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Eric Carle I: Painted
Papers Exploring author/illustrator Eric Carle.
Creating painted papers to use next time.
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Eric Carle II: Collage
Using collage technique to create Carle-like animals.
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Monkeying Around
Watercolor monkeys in the style of Chinese artist Wang Yani.
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Tangram Animals
Using the ancient puzzle art of tangrams to figure out animals.
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Origami Animals
Using the ancient oriental art of paper-folding to create animals.
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Elements
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Line:
Continuous Line Mural Lines are straight
or curvy with a beginning and an end. Drawing and coloring line designs
in sections and connecting them into one big line.
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Shape
Straight line shapes are geometric. Curvy line shapes are
organic. A collage drawing, cutting, and gluing shapes.
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Space
Size and overlapping can create space. Different sized shapes
used to illustrate simple perspective.
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Value
can be used to show distance. Mixing paint to create different
color values. Using a lighter and darker value to enhance an interesting
3-D shape.
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Color
Primary colors mixed to make secondary colors. Mixing paint
colors to be used next time.
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Putting
It All Together! Fruit and vegetable shapes
cut out of painted paper to create a still life composition.
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Texture
Quilt Texture can be seen or touched.
Making a collage with wallpaper and texture rubbings.
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Unity:
Stained Glass Elements can be used to achieve
unity in a composition. Using strong black line to create unity.
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Balance
Symmetrical and asymmetrical balance. Creating balance with
Matisse-style cut-outs.
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Repetition
and Pattern Pattern made through repeating
shapes. Printmaking techniques used to create a pattern.
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Shape Using
shape stamps to create space robots.
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Contrast
Contrast achieved through the use of warm and cool colors.
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Rhythm
Rhythm created through patterns of shape and color. Paper
molas from Panama.
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Movement
Elements and principles create movement in a composition.
Stencil letters are used to illustrate movement.
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Emphasis
Add an odd element to create emphasis.
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People
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Torn Paper People
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Figures: Proportional Drawing
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Potpourri of Art Lesson Plans
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Alien Landscape
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Aliens!
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Rolled Paper Bead Necklace
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Marbled Paper Boxes
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Painted Boxes
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Butterflies: Symmetrical Monoprint
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Inksects: Pen & Ink Techniques/Pattern
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Cornucopia: Chalk Pastels
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Frosty the Snowman Painting
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Cardboard Printing
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Flat Designs from Photos
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Paper Bag 'Blocks' Papier Mache
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Name Designs
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3-D Kinetic Folk Art Mouse
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Paper Marbling
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Fall Leaves: Tempera Resist
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Symmetrical Design: Stained
Glass
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Radial Design: Snowflake Drawing
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Radial Design: Cut Paper Snowflakes
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Snow Day - School's Out! Painting
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Here Comes Santa Claus!
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Fall Leaves: Rubbing with Polished
Crayon Border
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Christmas Forest
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Bugs in a Rug Design
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Flock of Birds Design
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Sculpture: Paper Strips
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Dutch Windmills
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Wallpaper Weaving
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Underwater: Torn Paper Collage/Rubbing
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Texture: Underground Drawing
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Technicolor Texture Ghosts
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Ice Cream Sundae Watercolor
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