Art
Student-friendly art projects with easy-to-find materials.
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings
Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!
Self Portraits: Text Art
What if a students' self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?
Fractals: Sierpinski’s Triangle
What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?
Fractals: Koch Snowflake
You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!
Looping Grid Art
Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you'll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!
Inferring With Art: A Man
What's going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What's his job? And where's his other boot?
Inferring With Art: Two Women
What are these two women up to? What's that thing she's holding? Let's make some inferences!
Thinking With Art: Head Down
Students will work their brain in several ways, noticing details, comparing, synthesizing, and finally identifying a parallel. All with one artist's work!
Drawing Knots, Level 1
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Parabolic Curve Art
Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren't curvy.
Self Portraits: Pointillism
Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.
Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective
Let's give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.
Drawing An Impossible Triangle
Here's how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.
Inferring With Art: A Couple
What's going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let's make some inferences!
Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective
Let's get students' art really popping with two-point perspective!
Concept Attainment: Cubism (Art)
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of cubism.
Drawing Knots, Level 2
How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Drawing Knots, Level 3
How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament
Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?