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Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2010
In this article, the author describes the design for her advanced oil-painting class. In this class, high-school students created a self-portrait painting and learned a glazing technique. The author also describes the students' evaluation of the class.
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Studio Art, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Activities
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 1998
Describes a lesson in which students drew their own self-portraits following three criteria: (1) use mixed media; (2) emphasize expressiveness of facial features; and (3) focus on the eyes. Asserts that students were not allowed to use an opaque projector or copy from photographs. Reports the students had difficulty drawing the planes of their…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Eyes
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 1998
Presents an art lesson that incorporates self-portraits and a familiar art technique: coloring paper with crayons, covering the colors with a layer of black, and drawing through the black to reveal the hidden colors. Explains that the students must be expressive by using the colors or concentrating on their facial features. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Color Planning
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2002
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Collage
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2001
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Color, Educational Strategies
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 1999
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)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2003
Describes an art project in which beginning art students created ceramic vegetables that are supposed to be functional, such as a container. Explains how the teacher can demonstrate the process of creating the ceramic vegetables. Includes a list of materials. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Ceramics, Educational Strategies
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2002
Presents a project used with beginning art students that focuses on depicting objects as three-dimensional. Explains that the students select three to five wooden architectural forms and other objects as the subject matter. Discusses the techniques and materials used in the project. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Art Products, Educational Strategies
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 1999
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)
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2003
Describes an art lesson used in an advanced drawing course in which the students created artworks of a portion of a chosen game board, such as "Monopoly," implementing photographic realism. Explains how the students created their pictures and includes the learning objectives for the lesson. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Materials, Course Content
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2002
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Color, Educational Strategies
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2000
Describes an art activity that incorporates storytelling with sculpture. Intermediate-level sculpture students create a sculpture that represents a family story, memory, or event. Describes the process and provides four examples, including stories and sculptures. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Art Products
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2001
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Materials
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2000
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Color, Course Content
Greenman, Geri – Arts & Activities, 2000
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Creativity
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