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 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)

Discusses an art project that focuses on fine arts prints. Uses three printmaking techniques: (1) stamping, (2) monotypes, and (3) intaglio (drypoint), with a focus on monotypes. Explains that the students created self-portraits using the monoprint technique by drawing their faces on a mirror and pulling the print off this surface. (CMK)

Describes a drawing assignment, using colored pencil, that explores color, texture, and relationships among drawn objects. Students use reference photographs to create a drawing in which one object is juxtaposed against a crowd of similar but different objects. (CMK)

Focuses on an activity in which the students in a beginning drawing class used middle-value brown paper and earthen shades of conte to draw pictures of bones in a desert environment. Discusses how the assignment teaches appreciation of the colors, sounds, and shapes of the desert. (CMK)

Describes an art project used with beginning high school art students that teaches them about continuous line drawing. Explains that the students create portraits of themselves, or another student, using glue, black construction paper, and chalk. (CMK)

Describes an assignment that was used in an advanced drawing class in which the students created self-portraits, breaking up their images using planes and angles to suggest their bone structure. Explains that the students also had to include three realistic portions in their drawings. (CMK)

Describes the first assignment for an intermediate oil painting class in which the students painted the human figure. Explains that the assignment involved three techniques: (1) abstract application of acrylic paint; (2) oil "Paintstiks" from Shiva; and (3) a final layer of actual oil paint. (CMK)

Presents an activity for beginning drawing classes in which students design and draw a composition of at least three candy wrappers. Explains that the project addresses form, techniques for overlapping, folding, and crinkling the candy wrappers, and adding proportion to give the illusion of three-dimensional space. (CMK)

Describes an art project using the technique called "Batik" that incorporated watercolor painting with mixed media to appeal to students in a combined art class. Discusses how the students created their artworks and includes a list of materials and objectives. (CMK)

Describes an art project in which noodles, the tubular colorful foam floating devices used in swimming pools, were the subject matter. Explains that the students drew their compositions, stretched the paper, and then used watercolor to paint their compositions. Discusses the process in detail. (CMK)

Describes an assignment that requires students to develop an original concept for their artwork where they utilize mixed media and repetition within their drawing as a starting point. Explains that students learn about principles of design and the frequency of repetition to satisfy compositional needs. (CMK)

Describes a watercolor lesson based on autumn leaves. Discusses the process, including but not limited to initial thumbnail sketches, how to start the paintings, and how to paint actual leaves onto the preliminary surface treatment. (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)

Describes an art lesson for high school seniors in an intermediate oil painting class. Explains that the teacher set up a still life with a ladder, easel, and a stool with a white background to capture the shadows. States that the students painted their still life in oil. (CMK)