Oil Pastel Portraits
Woven Hearts
This fun Valentine’s project took 2 lessons to complete. The first class we painted two sheets of watercolour paper in contrasting colors. In the second we cut the corners off one side of each paper to create a rounded end,…
Welcome Signs
Self-Portraits in Spray Paint
Students printed out a photo selfie, and used as a base to cut out sections in a plastic overlay with an exacto knife. Once these sections were cut out, they could be used as a stencil. The canvas board was…
More Animals in Winter Sweaters
Students found an animal of their choice, and lightly drew the head with a pencil. Thinking of hair/ fur and directional lines, students then drew over the portrait with different sizes of black marker. We discussed contrast, pattern and balance…
Fused Glass Birds
Fused Glass birds assignment for grade 7 & 8 students. Templates were used for scoring the basic bird shape. Birds were full fused and then various pieces were tac fused. Students had access to frit, stingers, rods, glassline paper, paint…
Video-Afghanistan Memory Project
What is the Memory Project? The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers, art students, and solo artists to help cultivate global kindness by creating portraits for children around the world who have faced substantial challenges,…
Silhouettes for Ramadan
We used several images of mosque silhouettes to inspire the black paper cut out. Students then used modpodge to attach the black paper to a transparent plastic used for overhead projections. Tissue paper was then cut or ripped and attached…
Video – Memory Project in Syria
What Is The Memory Project? The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers, art students, and solo artists to help cultivate global kindness by creating portraits for children around the world who have faced substantial challenges,…
Video- Memory Project Rohingya Children
Our Portraits Made It! Following a previous post that shows the portraits created for this project- here is the video The Memory Project has sent us of the children receiving our portraits! What is The Memory Project? The Memory Project…