Value art project high school

Class Assignment: Fill out the two worksheets on creating objects in ​1 - point perspective and adding surface treatments and accessories.

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Make your holiday art classes engaging with this fun high-contrast drawing project! Perfect for middle and high school students, this is the fifth lesson in my 6-part scaffolded drawing series. By now, students will have mastered basic shapes, and value. Using white colored pencils (Prismacolor for bright whites or Crayola for affordability) on black Tru-Ray construction paper, they'll create realistic holiday bows! #ArtLessons #ArtTeachers #HighContrastDrawing #HolidayArt #MiddleSchoolArt

Value scale project

After nearly a decade of teaching secondary students, I've had a lot of time to test out a variety of 2d art projects. Let's face it: as teachers, sometimes we plan and plan and plan. We are so excited to deliver the project, and then... it flops. Students are uninterested and the final products aren't

For some reason I find it easiest to teach value by going paint, then crayon, then colored pencil then graphite. So we start with paint. Official definition of Value (tone, tint, shade...) "refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork." Middle school definition of value..."this is hard, why do we have to do this....I want to do something fun!" Ah teaching value at a more advanced level can be a pain in the butt. I find younger students are perfectly happy to learn…

Shattered butterfly

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in betwee...