Emphasis art projects middle school

5 th grade students love looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and creating their own personalized version. Students learn abo...

Middle school art lessons, zentangle art, still life art project that teaches how to use emphasis in art!

We had a lot fun studying real candy prices as our inspiration for our Pop Art Candy Paintings. Tempra paint and black Sharpie outlines adde...

Zentangle Still Lifes What a successful project! We used Sharpie for our Zentangle backgrounds and chalk pastel for our still lifes. Focus was on variety of pattern as well as varied line thickness and value blending. At the beginning of the lesson, the still life image was projected on screen to allow for large classes to view it in detail. We also saved the image on our Edmodo class page for easy access anytime!

Osage Trail Middle School ART on Instagram: “Value Silhouettes are such a fun project to teach VALUE. My Art 1 kiddos have always done such a great job with these🌟 . . Step-by-step…”

4th Grade Shaded Forms 4th grade has been learning about the elements of art, FORM & VALUE. Form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (like a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat. Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. (this project was inspired by an awesome image i found on Marnie Hyland's blog! Check out their awesome art!) Day 1: I demonstrated how to do the project. (I project all of my lessons on a giant screen, so…

Art I students are beginning a new project that combines their skills in both graphite and colored pencils. Here is a detail from one of th...