I love lessons where I can tie in different areas of study, art history and art techniques!  This is a project I developed that incorporat...

Third graders worked together to make an insect habitat on large butcher paper.  They had been studying habitats in their Science class. ...

This is a lesson I teach every year because the results are so beautiful!  Each of the kid's drawings just turns out wonderful. T...

I just wanted to show you one more very cool picture.. it was another parody of American Gothic.  This student was absent and had to catch...

These beautiful bird paintings were drawn and painted by first graders.  The students learned about the artist John James Audubon and we re...

The fifth/sixth grade class painted watercolor clouds.   I have blogged about this project bef ore here.    

       In Art class, the 1st graders looked at Claude Monet’s artwork, especially his paintings of ponds.  Using a variety of painti...

  I am taking a watercolor class this summer at the local recreation and parks department.  Our first real painting assignment was to paint ...

  The 3/4s painted Pointillist Trees.  They have studied trees in Science.  We learned about the artist Georges Seurat by reading Scho...