Tired of searching for the perfect space visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this poster shows the foreground, middle ground, background and labels the horizon line as well! There are also very brief descriptions of the differences between foreground and background objects. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as usefu
One page instructions for making beautiful, colorful paper candles for your Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ofrenda (altar). This bundle has 3 different traditional designs and one blank version so that your students can design their own. All your students need is something to color with, scissors, and a glue stick. Makes an excellent substitute lesson as well. Could be done with younger students but would need a lot more supervision as they wouldn't be able to read the instructions.
Tired of searching for the perfect shape visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this gives examples of geometric, organic and free form shapes. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please check out my other Elements of Art Visuals :)
One page activity to make beautiful, colorful paper candles for your ofrenda (altar) for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). All you need is something to color with, scissors and a glue stick. This activity allows your students to draw whatever they would like to decorate their candle, but look for my bundle if you would like some that have ready to color Dia de los Muertos images!
Tired of searching for the perfect line visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this includes the basic types of lines as well as the different ways they can be modified. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please check out my other Elements of Art Visuals :)
Tired of searching for the perfect color wheel visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this color wheel shows the neutral and rainbow colors and labels the primary, secondary, cool and warm as well! I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please check out my other Elements of Art Visua
Tired of searching for the perfect value visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this gives examples of value scales, tints, shades, highlights, and shadows, as well as a brief illustration of how value can be used to create dimension. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please che
One page instructions for making a beautiful, colorful paper candle for your Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ofrenda (altar). This design features the traditional Katrina. All you need is something to color with, scissors, and a glue stick. Makes an excellent substitute lesson as well. Could be done with younger students but would need a lot more supervision as they wouldn't be able to read the instructions.
Tired of searching for the perfect texture visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this gives provides a definition of both tactile and visual textures as well as examples of different types of textures in artworks. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please check out my other Elem
One page instructions for making beautiful, colorful paper candles for your Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ofrenda (altar). This features a traditional scene of an ofrenda. All your students will need is something to color with, scissors, and a glue stick. Makes an excellent substitute lesson as well. Could be done with younger students but would need a lot more supervision as they wouldn't be able to read the instructions.
One page instructions for making beautiful, colorful paper candles for your Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ofrenda (altar). This features a traditional scene of skeleton dancers at a fiesta. All your students will need is something to color with, scissors, and a glue stick. Makes an excellent substitute lesson as well. Could be done with younger students but would need a lot more supervision as they wouldn't be able to read the instructions.
Tired of searching for the perfect form visual, I decided to make my own! As clear and simple as I could make it, this explains the difference between shapes and forms as well as giving examples of 3-dimensional types of artwork. I have blown this up into a poster, laminated letter size pages to place on tables, and included them as handouts in a variety of lessons. Hopefully some of you will find it just as useful! Thank you and, if interested, please check out my other Elements of Art Visuals
A visual to show the 7 elements of art as simply as I could! Each word is written to illustrate the meaning as clearly as possible without crowding the paper with any extra definitions or examples.
Almost 20 years of itinerant art education in a LOT of schools all around Albuquerque, New Mexico.
My own education history
Bachelors Degree from University of New Mexico in Visual Arts Education K-12
Masters Degree from New Mexico Highlands University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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