LeftBrainedArtTeacher

Need to introduce your middle or high school students to perspective with engaging activities and the opportunity to be creative? This is the unit for you!! Students will be introduced to both 1- and 2-Point Perspective with accompanying video demonstrations they can follow along with in their sketchbooks (or blank paper) as well as worksheets for independent practice. After the guided and independent practice, students will complete a brainstorming worksheet to come up with an idea for their ow

These calendars are a great way to start each month of the school year with your students and to keep them organized. Each page fills an 8.5 x 11 sheet with thematic images for students to color using any medium. You can edit the pdf to insert your own special dates/occasions or handwrite them in before you make copies. I do this with my high school art students and have them glue the calendars in their sketchbooks each month. Enjoy!

This is a great way for students to learn to mix colors and not rely on multiple bottles/tubes of paint to create custom colors. Using only primary colors, plus black and white, students will create 100 different colors simply by adding a little bit of something else to make a change. This lesson comes with an editable Google Slide with step-by-step instructions, a printable worksheet with rubric for students to paint on, and a video tutorial. The lesson uses student-grade tempera paint, but can

Are you looking for a way for your students to get some hands-on experience with the Elements of Art and Principles of Design? This is the lesson for you. Students will cut out the creative definitions of each Element and Principle, glue the tops to a new sheet (provided, or can be done on any other paper), then create an example of each with instructions and examples provided. There's even a bonus opportunity for each Element & Principle for your fast finishers. Rubric also included. As this

Geat for distance learning! This listing includes worksheets that describe and give students an opportunity to experiment with each of the Elements of Art (line, shape, space, color, value, texture, form) and Principles of Design (balance, movement, contrast, pattern, emphasis, rhythm, unity). Also included is a worksheet to quiz the students on their understanding by creating a composition of their choice and identifying how they utilized the Elements and Principles together. A rubric is provi

These prompts are a great way to either start or end classes on a block schedule.The slides make it easy to customize and present to a whole class, or you can use the list for students to keep or reference if they finish an assignment early.The prompts encourage creative thinking and can be interpreted in multiple ways (fun, serious, scary, funny, abstract, etc.)The slides with images to copy are good for developing drawing skills and give teachers the opportunity to discuss the Elements of Art

Both you and your students can keep this in your planner or at your desk to color in a small section each day and count down the school year. Use any materials you like, but colored pencils are more fun!

Need to introduce your middle or high school students to color theory with engaging activities? This is the unit for you!! Students will be introduced to the order of the color wheel and different color combinations (primary, secondary, tertiary), cool, warm, monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, split complimentary, and achromatic) as well as important terms like hue, saturation, value, tint, shade, and tone. Hands-on painting is included in the activities! They will first color a color whee

This is an easy lesson to send to your students to work on at home and can be easily edited to use in the classroom when you get back! Students will create a grayscale graphite (pencil) portrait of someone in their lives they would like to get to know better. By writing and getting answers to 20 questions and carefully studying a photograph of their selected person, students will gain a more intimate understanding of the person they chose. Students will demonstrate an understanding of graphite

This Google Slide assignment is ready for you to share with your students for distance learning. It includes a link to the Met Museum's Met Kids where students can browse the museum to find an artwork they like, easily research information about it, and listen to an audio clip describing it. Students are then prompted to create an original artwork inspired by their research (including a list of ways to be resourceful with materials they have at home). The slide includes places for them to docume

This is a ready-to-go lesson with a brief history of self-portraits as well as the importance of a good avatar across school and social media websites. Students choose from and create both web- and app-based avatar creators as well as use Google Draw to create options for a fun and appropriate avatar. Included is a fully editable Google Slide lesson as well as Google Slide assignment where students insert images of their artwork. A finished, but customizable rubric is also included.

Taught your students one-point perspective and need a project idea? This is the lesson for you! Students will develop their own "Personal Code" - The philosophy they have about life and the way they want to live it. Students determine what defines them, the values they want to work toward, and what they will base their decisions on. The COWBOY represents the best of America: COURAGE, OPTIMISM, HARD WORK. Cowboy Ethics allows students to discover their strengths and values, inspiring and emp

Do you like to have your art students keep sketchbooks, but neither you nor your students have the budget to buy one? Have them MAKE one! This lesson will give you a list of simple, relatively inexpensive supplies that fit your school budget (or you might even already have on hand!). The Google Slide layout makes it easy for you to adjust and customize to the supplies you have or the size of the sketchbook. It's also great to present (or share) the instructions to students as you walk them thr

This is a Power Point lesson to start my 9-12 Design Crafts class on the art of papercutting. It covers the history of papercutting as a craft, different cultures that have participated in papercutting and focuses on the Mexican style: Papel Picado. It also includes review of the elements and principles of design applicable to this assignment as well as the components of an art critique for when the assignment is complete. I also have a study sheet that accompanies this Power Point for students