This engaging lesson teaches students how to use one-point perspective and gradated shading to create the illusion of depth within a grid of nine squares. It develops key skills including accurate ruler use, understanding vanishing points and applying tonal shading. You have options. You can use the PowerPoint (or Google Slides) to guide students to […]
This is a choice board for the theme of ‘texture’. This download includes: A one-page choice board with 12 ideas for projects which each link to texture. An additional document that suggests artists that would be good to research for each choice, should you wish your students to link their project to an artist. (Optional) […]
This is a simple but very effective starter activity where students create a tonal value scale and add the definition for the word tone or value to a bookmark. As you can see from the image to the left, there is a version of this resource with the word ‘Tone’ and another for the word […]
With this ‘Elements and Principles Bookmark’, students cut out two sides of the bookmark on the grey line and stick them together to create a double-sided bookmark. We all know that repeated recall is an important part of memory, and having this bookmark in a sketchbook, is a great way to get students to revisit […]
With this 3D Spheres art lesson, it is easy to teach that tone/values can give the illusion that a flat surface has form. Included in this download is: A worksheet with 4 blank spheres for students to work on. There is a version that uses the word ‘Tone’ and a version that uses the word […]
These Exit Tickets for the Elements of Art give you 4 ways to test your students understanding. One ticket asks them to circle the Elements of Art. Another, simply to list them. The next, asks students to match the Element of Art with its definition. Finally, students are asked what Element of Art they have […]
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