Sketchbook ideas for middle school

Learn how to layer colors to create a beautiful drawing . This video shows how to divide the paper to begin drawing the coke bottles in colored pencils. By...

Thinking about incorporating student sketchbooks in your middle and high school art classroom? Click here to find out the many benefits and ways in which I use them to help improve my students' drawing skills.

Arts teacher Christopher Locke adapted one of Hemingway's quotes, to the question, what scared him the most, he responded "A blank sheet of paper." He found that the same was true for his students, if asked to draw anything they would sit there, frustrated not knowing what to do. He gave them sheets with beginnings of a drawing, that the students would then develop. When he got their work back, he saw that even though the 30 students were all given the same start, they ended up with very…

Our tween / teen class created these amazing contour flowers using india ink and acrylic. We wanted students to practice working on a very large scale, to create a contour drawing using gestural line work and motion, and to explore how to build up a painting layer by layer. We set up a fresh […]

We began this lesson by perusing a variety of scientific illustrations of insects, observing the realistic elements such as the presence of a head, thorax, and abdomen and a total of six segmented…

How to Explore the Magic of Blind Contour Drawing Media & Techniques % %

8th grade artists have the option to take 2-D Art (drawing, painting, printmaking, etc) first semester as well as 3-D Sculpture and Ceramics second semester. The semester format allows us to cover more topics and art experiences in more depth, giving a so

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Step by step digital drawing tutorial of how to draw a half cartoon portrait, includes video tutorial and step by step photos with instructions to work at your own pace

Year 9 students have been exploring the work of the Pop Artists to inspire their self-portraits. Students used a photograph of themselves to complete a linear drawing before creating a background based on their contextual studies.