Tag Archives: High School Art
Decorative Painting
Students practiced the techniques of “one stroke” painting, using resource materials by popular decorative painters, such as Donna Dewberry and Priscilla Hauser. Additional resources included a wide variety of books on decorative and “folk art” painting, and an attractive display was set up … Continue reading
Watercolor Fall Leaves
Students painted small watercolors of fall leaves before starting on acrylic paintings. This exercise helped them with observational drawing, and with color mixing and color matching, as they were using real leaves as reference.
Screen Printing using Transparency Film Stencils
We used Mask-Ease for most of our screen printing projects, but we also used printer transparency film to create reusable stencils. In addition to being reusable (unlike the Mask-Ease which had to be removed from the screen and discarded after … Continue reading
Screen Printing with High School Students
After I learned the basics of screen printing by attending a one-day workshop, and after introducing screen printing to my middle school art students, I was ready to include this unit in my high school art ed curriculum. We used … Continue reading
Light-Capturing Cut Paper Designs
Students practiced cutting and folding pre-printed motif designs before coming up with interesting designs of their own. They worked on medium-weight white drawing paper which they divided into at least five 2-inch boxes. They left a border around the outer … Continue reading
Oldenburg-Inspired Sculptures
Students (middle school and later high school) were introduced to the monumental sculptural works of Claes Oldenburg. Excited by the prospect of “supersizing” an ordinary object, students brainstormed to come up with ideas. Once they’d made a decision on which object … Continue reading