Modigliani Style Portraits
There are several sites that show this lesson idea – portraits in the style of Modigliani. I got my inspiration from deepspacesparkle.com. Students love blending colored chalks together, and it really comes alive on black paper. afaithfulattempt.com also emulates Modigliani…
Georgia O’Keefe Inspired Collage
Our class spent some time looking at work by Georgia O’Keefe. Using some of the borrowed skulls and bones from the science department, we did a drawing study of bones. Trying out various techniques including hatching, cross-hatching, stippling and blending…
Ink Painting Trees
To create these ink tree paintings, we used watercolor paper, and liquid watercolors. We painted the backgrounds first, taping down the edges beforehand to get a border. Once the background was dry, we used black ink and painted a long…
Day of Dead Wax Resist Skulls
We looked at the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) and looked at sugar skulls made for holiday for inspiration. Then students created their own design for a skull in their sketchbook. From this plan,…