Ideas for art class high school

Get students in the mindset of the artist with this clever abstract art lesson that focuses on how to teach abstract art for middle school and high school.

This surreal creative silhouetted painting project has students creating a surreal influenced image inside of a silhouette. It asks students to create an image about themselves using a self-discovery theme.Included in this zip file download is:-13 page Powerpoint with image examples, assignment description, examples by surrealist Rene Magritte, and renaissance artist Archimboldo, also description of mark breakdown, and a list of questions to guide students through ideas about…

High School art students create self-portraits with charcoal on reclaimed cardboard. Read the full art lesson.

In Studio Art we will begain working on our last major project, the 3D Cardboard artist Collage based on one of the artists you researched...

I created this as a reflection prompt for students to finish the sentence "Today in Art I..." when they are writing their daily page in their sketchbook at the end of class.

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April has come and with it, fabulous weather. We're all in shorts and summer shirts with the windows open. Today was the first day that not only the weather was nice, but that the wind was tolerable. We took advantage of our window of opportunity to finish a project we started a few weeks ago. Way back in March, we started the silhouette project. We walked around and worked so long and hard on our shadows, but the wind was just not feelin' it that day. It almost made away with Preston's…

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

Contour Line Drawing Worksheets

Something I did for my thesis. Disclaimer: I neither own the band, nor is this their official album cover (but I do hope they commission me, hehe)