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Neal, Kari Gertz – Arts & Activities, 2012
In this article, the author describes a self-portrait project that encouraged students, boosted their self-confidence, and got them excited about their artistic abilities--while producing amazing results. This lesson effectively develops artistic ability by compelling students to see that drawing is quite simply breaking down objects into the…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Portraiture, Freehand Drawing
McCutcheon, Heather – Arts & Activities, 2012
In this article, the author describes how her studio art students created their Pop art-style self-portraits. Students were each given a printout of a black-and-white picture of themselves that the author had taken with her digital camera. With this picture, students took tracing paper and traced a basic outline of their face, hair, and neck. They…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Portraiture, Popular Culture
Herberholz, Barbara – Arts & Activities, 2011
Artworks are not produced in a vacuum, but by the interaction of experiences, and interrelationships of ideas, perceptions and feelings acknowledged and expressed in some form. Students, like mature artists, may be inspired and motivated by their memories and observations of their surroundings. Like adult artists, students may find that their own…
Descriptors: Art Products, Artists, Influences, Memory
Ciminero, Sandra Elser – Arts & Activities, 2012
To celebrate a milestone in eighth-graders' lives--leaving middle school and moving on to high school--the author assigns them the "Coming of Age" project, which examines the big idea of identity and promotes the move from self-reflection to self-expression. The project also includes writing components that correspond to each of the nine…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Middle School Students, Student Projects
Sutley, Jane – Arts & Activities, 2010
Abstraction is, in effect, a simplification and reduction of shapes with an absence of detail designed to comprise the essence of the more naturalistic images being depicted. Without even intending to, young children consistently create interesting, and sometimes beautiful, abstract compositions. A child's creations, moreover, will always seem to…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Elementary School Students, Art Products
Hicks, Bill – Arts & Activities, 2010
In this article, the author describes an art project intended for high-school students to create a three-dimensional design using a Styrofoam. The students were asked to find and take photos of architectural details, such as decorative columns, and use the photograph as inspiration in their drawings. The drawings served as a "blueprint" to help…
Descriptors: High School Students, Studio Art, Art Activities, Sculpture
Guhin, Paula – Arts & Activities, 2010
This article describes an art project designed for middle- and high-school students to (1) understand the meaning of the terms composite and photomontage, and be able to use them correctly; (2) select and evaluate a range of subject matter; (3) combine three different photographs to create an attention-grabbing, entertaining work; and (4) mount…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Activities, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students
Cunningham, Kathy – Arts & Activities, 2010
The author has always been fascinated by old photographs. As she looks at them, she wonders about the people. Who were they? What were their lives like? Where was this photo taken? A moment in time is frozen forever, for all to see. Inspired by old photographs, the author describes how her fifth-grade classes made their own "photographs" by…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Photography, Visual Aids, Art Activities
Mahon, April – Arts & Activities, 2009
In this article, the author describes an exciting project, written for first-graders, wherein students got to put themselves into their art using a camera and just one computer. In this project, students were challenged to invent their own fantasy place where anything could happen. Using the camera, the author took their picture in their chosen…
Descriptors: Photography, Fantasy, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Squibb, Matt – Arts & Activities, 2009
This article describes how to make a clay camera. This idea of creating functional cameras from clay allows students to experience ceramics, photography, and painting all in one unit. (Contains 1 resource and 3 online resources.)
Descriptors: Photography, Ceramics, Painting (Visual Arts), Studio Art
Osterer, Irv – Arts & Activities, 2009
With the popularity of e-mail cutting into revenues, Canada Post is always searching for a marketing strategy that would encourage people to use the mail. "Picture Postage" is such an initiative. This popular program allows individuals to create their own stamps for family and friends. This opportunity also provides a vehicle for…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Foreign Countries, Photography, Art Education
Guhin, Paula – Arts & Activities, 2009
Asking students to manipulate digital photos on the computer is one of the easiest ways the author knows to engage their attention. It's fabulous fun for them and a great teaching tool for educators. In this article, the author presents 10 ways to impress students with image-editing software. These are: (1) filters are fascinating; (2) get a move…
Descriptors: Photography, Visual Aids, Computer Uses in Education, Studio Art
Sartorius, Tara Cady – Arts & Activities, 2009
Ed Willis Barnett had quite a military training: he attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, (1917 to 1920) and served in both World Wars. He was also an accomplished fencer, and earned a position on the 1928 U.S. Olympic fencing team. That year the summer Olympics were held in Amsterdam, so he traveled to Europe for the…
Descriptors: Photography, Artists, Visual Aids, Art Education
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2001
Presents background information on the life of Galen Rowell. Includes ideas for teaching activities and a reproduction of one of his photographs. Describes the content of the photograph, exploring Rowell's use of alpenglow, a condition that occurs when the light of the setting sun strikes a mountain peak after the valleys are in shade. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Artists, Educational Strategies
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2003
Provides background information on Arnold Newman focusing on his photograph of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) that was selected for its facial expression. Includes activities and a reproduction of the photograph. Offers information about the photograph. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Artists, Biographies
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