Art Ed Connection

Portraits / Portraiture: Draw Facial Features w/ Proportion, Printables & Videos! Drawing portraits can be tough without the right instruction and practice. Through this lesson, your students will get both! This lesson is packed with resources to help your students learn the fundamentals of drawing portraits first focusing on how to draw each facial feature using videos and printable, step-by-step references. Once students master drawing each feature the lesson builds on those skills by provid

Easy Middle School Art Lesson Project: Pop Art! Giant Snack Foods In this project / lesson students create a large scale snack food in the style of Pop artist Claes Oldenburg. The lesson provides step-by-step directions that include diagrams and video examples. In addition, the lesson provides a brief summary of the Pop Art movement and introduces students to 8 predominant Pop artists through, quotes, facts, selected art pieces and embedded video segments. Lesson includes: - PowerPoint slide

Fashion Design: Gather inspiration, create mood boards, sketch and make clothes!This resource walks students through the basic fashion design process. Students will gather inspiration, create mood boards, refine their collection, create sketches and finally create small scale tangible garments based on their process and sketches. Lesson Includes:-Intro presentation -Printable resources -Video segments -Full lesson plan, materials list & rubric -Student product examples Lesson Duration: Durati

Middle School Art Lesson: Drawing in 2 Point Perspective (BUNDLE 1-4) In this collection of mini lessons students learn the fundamentals of drawing in two point perspective through an easy to follow, step-by-step guided presentation. These tiered lessons insure that the sometimes challenging process of drawing in perspective can be mastered by your students. Slides can also be easily printed for student reference. Your students do not only learn how to draw a city in two point perspective but th

Art Escape Room: Elements of Art! This resource provides an engaging and exciting way to test your students understanding of the elements of design. Students engage in a series of 7 hands-on art themed challenges, each based on a specific elements using an “escape room” style format. Lesson includes: - Lesson plan/description - Materials list - Answer key for each station - Station set-up diagram - Printable resources - Linked electronic resources - Google quiz/form for students Your student

Drawing People BUNDLE: human figure & face (easy middle school & High School) Lesson Description: This 7 lesson bundle provides multiple resources to help you teach your students how to draw people. Cumulatively, this bundle can range from about 6-8 weeks of art projects. It teaches this important content through a myriad of engaging introductory PowerPoint presentations, printable handouts, video demonstrations, step-by-step guided instructions, visual examples, and links to additional rela

Artist Coloring Pages: Salvador Dali (Great for early finishers, free art & sub plans) This is one volume of our artist themed coloring pages. Each volume focuses on the work and/or subject matter of a specific artist. Volume 1: Van GoghVolume 2: LichtensteinVolume 3: WarholVolume 4: OKeeffVolume 5: daVinciVolume 6: DaliVolume 7: MonetVolume 8: MC EscherGet them all BUNDLED here for a DISCOUNTED priceBe the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and giveaways! Sign up for our e-update.

In this project students learn - A brief background of surrealism - The predominate characteristics of surrealist art - Are introduced to a variety of surrealist artists and their work - Engage in a collaborative warm-up activity - Create an original piece of surrealist style art. Lesson includes: - Detailed lesson plan - Introductory PowerPoint presentation - Numerous examples of surrealist art - lists and descriptions of surrealist art characteristics - links to learn about over 20 different

Gesture Drawing Basics: Art Lesson & Project In this introductory lesson students will learn the basics of gesture drawing through an interactive PowerPoint presentation complete with example videos, model poses with embedded timers, and an enrichment project. The lesson focuses on key characteristics of gesture drawing: - Stay loose & Draw light (capture the "gist") - There is no such thing as "messing up" - & capturing motion By following 4 basic steps: - Lines - Shapes - Details - Value

Adding Value / Shading to Art Skeletal Study: Middle / high school art lesson Lesson Description:In this lesson students build upon a basic understanding of value and light source by learning about the 5 necessary values to create form from shape:- Highlights- Reflected light- Mid-tones- Core Shadow- Cast Shadow presented through various PowerPoint slides and video demonstrations. Students demonstrate their understanding through a printable practice worksheet and a final art project.During the f

ART: Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) This lesson introduces a brief history and explanation/evolution of the practice of artist trading cards or ATC's. It walks students through an easy to follow process via a series of demonstration videos. Students practice each included creative process then employ the processes they have practiced to create a set of 8 artist trading cards (ATC's). Be the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and giveaways! Sign up for our e-update.

Middle School Art Project: Macro Animal Eyes (Mixed Media) In this lesson you will EXPERIMENT with different art media to learn how they interact with each other. You will THINK CRITICALLY about how the effects created by applying media together in specific ways can be utilized to accomplish unique effects in your artwork and you will PLAN and CREATE a final piece of art using the skills you LEARN in the form of a macro animal eye or eyes. Be the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and

Artist Coloring Pages: Andy Warhol (Great for early finishers, free art & sub plans) This is one volume of our artist themed coloring pages. Each volume focuses on the work and/or subject matter of a specific artist. Volume 1: Van Gogh Volume 2: Lichtenstein Volume 3: Warhol Volume 4: OKeeff Volume 5: daVinci Volume 6: Dali Volume 7: Monet Volume 8: MC Escher Get them all BUNDLED here for a DISCOUNTED price Be the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and giveaways! Sign up for our e-

Artist Coloring Pages 40 pg. BUNDLE! Great for early finishers, free art & sub plans. This bundle contains each of the following coloring page collections: Volume 1: Van Gogh Volume 2: Lichtenstein Volume 3: Warhol Volume 4: OKeeff Volume 5: daVinci Volume 6: Dali Volume 7: Monet Volume 8: MC Escher Be the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and giveaways! Sign up for our e-update.

Custom Virtual Art Museum This resource provides a customizable virtual museum template. You can easily insert your student’s artwork into a number of museum galleries, customize text, project descriptions, colors, museum signage and frame sizes and styles to fit your needs. This virtual space can easily showcase over 100 pieces of student art! Students, parents and colleagues can navigate through the virtual environment via directional arrows or by clicking the museum map. It provides a fun,

Artist Coloring Pages: Kehinde Wiley (Great for early finishers, free art & sub plans) This is the first instalment of the SECOND SET of my artist themed coloring pages. Each volume focuses on the work and/or subject matter of a specific artist. You can check out set 1 below: SET 1 Volume 1: Van GoghVolume 2: LichtensteinVolume 3: WarholVolume 4: OKeeffVolume 5: daVinciVolume 6: DaliVolume 7: MonetVolume 8: MC EscherVolume 9: Kehinde Wiley Get them all BUNDLED here for a DISCOUNTED priceBe th

Clay Building Basics: Techniques (Coil, Pinch, Slab, Carve, Slip & Score) Middle School Art Lesson / Project In this lesson students learn basic clay building techniques/ processes (slab, coil, pinch, carving & slip/scoring) via a series of video demonstrations. Students are then tasked with applying these skills to create a thematic, functional clay piece. This presentation uses a set of salt and pepper shakers as an example but students may opt to create other forms of functional pieces us

Kehinde Wiley Style Portrait: Capturing powerful postures and poses in portraiture. Students work collaboratively to produce a portrait in the style of Kehinde Wiley. Project includes elements of gesture drawing, portraiture, patterning, photography & mixed media! This resource includes: - Introductory presentation - Brief artist bio & link to artist web page - Embedded Video - Step-by-step visual directions - Example project product Be the first to here about our new resources, SALES, and

Metamorphosis Observational & Creative Drawing. Great sub plan! Quick & Easy! In this lesson students will refine their observational and creative drawing skills by creating both real and imagined artwork. Through this creative process students will research visual reference images to draw as well as exercise their imagination to fill in the metamorphosis stages between these images. If you choose they will take things one step further with an optional tech integration phase in which students cr

Students create an original "glitch effect" (currently popular on TikTok) drawing. This presentation contains step-by-step directions for 2 different methods to create the glitch style drawings. Perfect for middle school!