High school art 1 projects

Projects follow the “ Basics ” taking the new medium, technique or concept and applying it to a finished work of art assessing the new skill acquired through Basics. Projects ALSO build on...

This colored pencil color theory lesson focuses on color temperature and blending. This lesson has a free video tutorial ready to use!

Here's an absolutely stunning faux stained glass project my junior high students recently finished. These are made from black construction paper and tissue paper. They took about a month or so to finish, due to the intricate nature of all the steps. To start off, I showed students a slideshow about the stained glass in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. I showed them a video of how stained glass is made (the technique hasn't really changed in hundreds of years!). So then students started…

High school winter holiday art project featuring chalk pastel on black paper produces vivid results.

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

Thinking about incorporating student sketchbooks in your middle and high school art classroom? Click here to find out the many benefits and ways in which I use them to help improve my students' drawing skills.