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Gruber, Donald – Arts & Activities, 2001
Provides historical information on the art technique called marbling. Includes floating paints on water and transferring the patterns formed in the water to paper. Discusses how teachers can teach this technique with materials that fit their budgets. Describes the process in detail. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Art Materials, Budgeting
Mannlein, Sally – Arts & Activities, 2002
Describes an art project that was used with first grade students in which they learn about Vincent van Gogh's style of painting. Explains that the children learn to create circles and straight lines and how to fill in with color. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Materials, Artists
Rohrbach, Marla – Arts & Activities, 2002
Describes art curriculum goals for first grade students in the Knob Noster (Missouri) school district where students are expected to learn about mixing primary colors to create secondary colors, to learn about creating patterns in artwork, and to understand art subject matter. Presents an art activity that accomplished these goals. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Artists, Childrens Art
Phillips, Shelley – Arts & Activities, 2002
Describes an art lesson where students used watercolors to paint a flower bouquet arranged in a vase. Explains that the students viewed examples of flower bouquets by artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Odilon Redon. Discusses, in detail, the process of creating the artworks. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Artists
Buban, Marcia H. – Arts & Activities, 2001
Describes an art activity in which fourth-grade students created Expressionist paintings. Explains that the students selected a newsprint portrait that depicted an emotion and then the students created a picture with the emotion but exaggerating it. Discusses the process in detail. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2001
Discusses types of art materials that children enjoy using in their artworks. Explores the art materials such as tasty art supplies, such as candy; peeled supplies, such as pencil shavings; sticky art supplies, such as Band-Aids; and fast-food supplies, such as forks and spoons. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials, Childrens Art
Bowen, Judy Domeny – Arts & Activities, 2003
Describes how teachers can develop a student art auction as a way to raise money for an art program, the students, or other causes. Explains that an auction helps students feel like real artists. Discusses each aspect of the process from preliminary decisions to selecting artwork to bidding at the auction. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Educational Benefits, Educational Strategies
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Fast, Lynette – Visual Arts Research, 2000
Reports on research conducted over a six-year period on the relationship between children's art and reading levels. Provides an overview of literature on children's development in and through their art, examining the reading-art connection. Presents findings from one study in Grenada primary schools and three in Ontario, Canada. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Early Reading, Educational Research
Jones, AnnMarie – Arts & Activities, 2001
Presents an art activity that enables first-grade students to learn about color mixing by driving toys trucks through paint. Explains that the students created rainbow fish and drew the background with crayons. States that this activity demonstrates how to utilize nontraditional tools or objects when creating art. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Materials, Childrens Art, Color, Educational Strategies
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Henkes, Robert – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Explores the similarities between paintings of the abstract expressionists and those of young children. Similarities include total surface coverage, disregard for details, direct application of pigment, disregard for visual perspective, and use of the painting surface as a frontal plane. (CB)
Descriptors: Art Expression, Artists, Childrens Art, Color
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Ryan, Margaret W. – School Arts, 1990
Describes the origin and function of Tibetan lineal books. Outlines a lesson plan that can be used by students in all grades to create their own lineal books. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Childrens Art
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Ende-Saxe, Shirley – School Arts, 1990
Maintains that, by the time students reach sixth grade, they are tired of painting flowers. By viewing them through the eyes of the artist, Georgia OKeefe, students interests are revived. Students analyzed her methods and then drew and painted their own large scale paintings. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Artists, Childrens Art
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Morris, Jimmy Oliver – School Arts, 1989
Illustrates the skill and inspiration of master art teacher, Frank Wachowiak, by presenting three lessons for children: "Fruits and Vegetables" or "Leaves" in crayon resist, "X-ray Trees" in crayon engraving and "Angels or Self-portraits" in tempera. Lessons emphasize the use of patterns and textures, as…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Teachers
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Frank, Joan C. – School Arts, 1989
Describes a unit using materials gathered from Soviet children through Vermont's Children's Art Exchange Program. The unit involves a slide presentation and discussion of the cultural similarities and differences that are identified through an examination of art work. Suggests asking children to create art that represents their own culture. (KO)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange
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Chia, Jane; Duthie, Birnie – Computers & Education, 1994
Documents and analyzes the work of two computer-based art projects in Singapore where primary school children were involved in art production using a computer. Topics addressed include computer-based art learning; implications for art teaching and learning; technological issues; and aesthetic aspects. Examples of the art work are included. (three…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products
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