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Viking Ship

Students create watercolor paintings of Viking longships that were used in battle, and were long, light, and slender so they could move around quickly.

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Lotus

This lotus flower was created using watercolor and a wax resist.

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Lemur

Found in only one area on Earth—Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands—lemurs are considered the world’s most endangered group of mammals.

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Leaping Dolphin

Experimenting with the Watercolor Salt technique. When salt is added to a wet wash of paint, the salt absorbs the pigment and pulls it across the paper creating unique, abstract patterns.

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Gum ball machine

Colored pencil techniques. Gumball machines were first invented in the late 19th century, with traditionally flavored tutti frutti gum. Many believe William Wrigley designed the earliest gum machine, but it was The Thomas Adams Gum Company.

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African Elephants

African Elephants Can Live to Age 70, Their Ears Can Reach 5 Ft Long, & they’re Endangered.

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Laurel Burch Horses

Students learn about the strong, uplifting spirit of the artist Laurel Burch, and how that is evident in her art as they draw one of her famous art pieces.

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Golden Gate Bridge

We used the pastel chalk rub method for adding color to the Golden Gate bridge, one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World!

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Horse drawn with a grid

Students use the grid method of drawing to produce an accurate line drawing by reducing the subject to a series of small squares. Then they draw the shapes within each square, a technique that is often easier than trying to draw the entire subject all at the same time.

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Holiday Penguin

Amid the frigid backdrop of Antarctica – this baby penguin will warm your heart.

This lesson includes an oil pastel media demonstration.

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Snowy Bob Cat

This elusive wildcat of North America was created with oil pastels.

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Partridge in a Pear Tree

Colored pencil was used the create this lovely partridge in a Pear tree

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BullFrog

Did you know that Bullfrogs can jump distances 10 times their body length, and a fully grown bullfrog can jump as far as 6 feet? Students painted this frog with watercolor and salt

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Mozart

The world’s most famous composer of classical music is fun to draw and interesting to learn about. Kids have a great time putting their own spin on this historical character. Watercolor was used in this lesson.

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Giraffe

Being tall comes in handy when plucking leaves from trees. A giraffe’s tongue can be up to 21 inches long. Students learn giraffe facts while drawing with chalk pastels.

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Fall Owls

These fall owls were created using water color and a wax resist. Students put down some wax on their paper, painted over the wax, and the wax resists the watercolor leaving the white of the paper exposed. This technique can have some cool applications.

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Peanuts

Students learn about cartoonist Charles Schulz as they draw the peanuts Gang using pen and ink and markers.

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Whale

We used the Rule of Thirds to position the area of emphasis in this lesson. Placing the focal point in the Rule of Thirds made it more natural for the subject to extend out into the borders.

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Monet Sail Boats

We studied the artist Claude Monet and learned about the element of art called space and how to use different perspective techniques to create the illusion of depth. We used Monet’s sailboat paintings as inspiration for our own impressionist style painting with acrylic paint

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Artistic Playing Cards

Students created double-image designs inspired by playing card face cards.

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