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Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament
Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament
Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?
Parabolic Curve Art
Parabolic Curve Art
Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
An Escher-Style Tessellation Project
Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!
Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings
Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings
Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!
Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective
Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective
Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!
Fractals: Sierpinski’s Triangle
Fractals: Sierpinski’s Triangle
What if this triangle pattern just kept repeating… forever!?
Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy
Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy turns leaves and stones into art. Your students will learn to draw his signature natural curves — then build on them.
Introduction to Watercolor
Introduction to Watercolor
A mosaic technique that makes watercolor approachable. Students walk away with something they’re proud of.
Inferring With Art: Two Women
Inferring With Art: Two Women
What are these two women up to? What’s that thing she’s holding? Let’s make some inferences!
Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs
Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs
The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.
Inferring With Art: A Man
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?
Self Portraits: Text Art
Self Portraits: Text Art
What if a students’ self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?
Drawing An Impossible Triangle
Drawing An Impossible Triangle
Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.
Looping Grid Art
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!
Fractals: Koch Snowflake
Fractals: Koch Snowflake
You could keep zooming in on this snowflake forever!
Drawing Knots, Level 1
Drawing Knots, Level 1
How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Drawing Knots, Level 2
Drawing Knots, Level 2
How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Drawing Knots, Level 3
Drawing Knots, Level 3
How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!
Concept Attainment: Art
Concept Attainment: Art
Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?
Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective
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.
Thinking With Art: Head Down
Thinking With Art: Head Down
One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.
Self Portraits: Pointillism
Self Portraits: Pointillism
Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.
Inferring With Art: A Couple
Inferring With Art: A Couple
What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!
Writing About Art: The Scream
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.