Describes an art project for beginning drawing students that focuses on abstraction and the work of abstract artists. Explains that the students draw a still-life portrait of a model, but are asked to exaggerate the foreshadowing in their pictures. (CMK)

Presents a project for beginning art students where they viewed artworks by Norman Rockwell as examples of visual storytelling. Created their own works of art to tell a story using clay to make a sculpture. (CMK)

Presents an art assignment that helps students progress from color theory and the color wheel to understanding watercolor techniques. Explains that students apply their knowledge of watercolor techniques by using three of ten techniques to create different views of a chair in the Cubist style. (CMK)

Offers an art project that was used as a semester final for a group of mixed-media art students. States that the project was inspired by the shadow boxes created by Joseph Cornell as a metaphor for the world. Explains that students created their own boxes to contain their memories. (CMK)

Discusses an art project in which students created drawings of mop heads. Explains that the approach of drawing was more important than the subject. States that the students used the chiaroscuro technique, used by Rembrandt and Caravaggio, in which light appears out of the darkness. (CMK)

Presents an art activity that improves student drawing skills. Explains that students use the chiaroscuro technique to draw a still-life that focuses on restaurant take-out containers as the subject. States that the students learn about adding and subtracting from the value in their drawings. (CMK)

Describes an art project that challenges the artistic skills of students by asking them to depict an everyday scene. Explains that the students learn about various artists, such as Edward Hopper, and must select a scene in which they are looking through something such as a window, door, or hallway. (CMK)

Presents an art assignment for beginning painting students in which they paint a self-portrait in the style of the German expressionists and intimate the mood through colors. Explains that the students viewed color reproductions of work by German expressionists and aspects of art history related to the German expressionists. (CMK)

Presents a project used in an advanced art class in which students focus on the work of Chuck Close by creating large self-portraits in the manner of Close. Describes the work of different students, such as how one student made a portrait using different colors of Skittles candy. (CMK)

Describes an art activity in which students draw ribbons (thin watercolor paper that, when torn, will stand up in a curling fashion). Explains in detail the assignment in which students used pencil rendering or charcoal pencil depending on the type of paper used for the assignment. (CMK)

Provides information on Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Honore Daumier's "Rue Transonian." Describes an art activity in which students in an advanced drawing class reproduce a famous drawing in the same medium as the original, make the composition contemporary, and include themselves in the composition. (CMK)