Rambunctious students are normally the most creative students. I find that the best kind of projects to do with rambunctious students are projects based on their personal interests. Another important aspect is to discuss their ideas, to help them to plan and to give them personal freedom to express. During our conversations, I first ask them what their ideas are and based on their information I facilitate t
Painting and Drawing project inspired on the work of Picasso. A fun art activity that involves making costumes, drawing, painting and lots of imagination. Art Galleries and Museums are great sources of inspiration to create art projects for the classroom or to do at home. When I travel I always have my pen, my sketch book and my camera to write, to sketch and to document art works that later on I’ll use as ins
Book Making inspired on medieval Books of Hours – to make these books we researched the covers of Medieval Books and Illuminations. Before students started to cut and glue shapes, they created their designs on paper. They planned, they experimented and they made decisions. For the covers: two 6″x 6″ (15 cm x 15 cm) of 0.078″ (2 mm) cardboard per student, for the covers two 6″x 6̸
Clay—Cartoons in 3 dimension deals with facial expressions and a sense of humour. It is a fun project that young students love, as using clay is one of the most popular art techniques. This art project can be approached in two ways. The first being adopting a cartoon style and the second is creating a clay model based on members of the community such as politicians, sport heroes, your teacher or even a favourite movi
Mixed media painting/collage is a very exciting painting project for primary school children appealing to those as young as five years of age. This tutorial presents an opportunity to use your imagination to create a composition in collage form, using different materials and paint on canvas. This project can be approached in different ways using various themes for inspiration. The theme for this particular project is
There are many ways to represent the landscape in art. The ‘landscape’ as a subject, has been an important catalyst for many artists throughout history. Artists have replicated landscapes and panoramas in many different styles from photo realistic to abstract and every artistic interpretation in between. This project is inspired by the urban landscape, based on the shapes and lines found in city maps. It provides the
I could write for years about my experience teaching art to young children. I have been fascinated by children’s visual language, their imagination, their bold approach to art and by their endless creativity. Here I present a video to tell the story how this passion for advocating Art Education for young children began and why I began Brava Art Press, the website that I have created to give back to educators and pare
This is a great project for older students, it combines photography, photo manipulation with a computer program such as Adobe Photo Shop Elements and painting. To find inspiration, ideas and style we looked at the portraits that artist Andy Warhol made of famous people like Marilyn Monroe, Jackeline Kennedy, Mao and others. Students took photos of each other and then using Adobe Photo Shop, posterized the photos in g
Light projection is great fun for students to do, it provides them the opportunity to create transparencies involving elements, like shapes, colours, lines and textures to be projected using an overhead projector and to use computers to manipulate the images they have created. This project also deals with the idea of an imaginary or abstract composition which makes students to think, to plan, to be creative, to disco
