These sites provide you and your students with information and activities that will help them to practice and reinforce their drawing and painting skills.
Sanford & A Lifetime of Color Create Art
Try these hands-on activities and techniques, or browse the online galleries of student and professional artwork.
The Cyber Sketchbook and Digital Drawing Board
This site has several quality activities for the beginning artist and provides introductory ideas for teaching art with technology.
CrayolaŽ Creativity Central
What's the only thing better than getting "The "Big Box" of crayons?
Exercises to build your students observation and interpretation skills.
Mini Masterpieces
Learn all about famous painters and their art by creating mini materpieces!
Looking to the Sky for Color
Painted skies can express many moods. Students can paint a sky of their own that expresses a mood or feeling, using the primary hues and black and white tempera paints.
Looking and Learning Landscape
Students study famous landscape paintings to learn about basic themes in painting and drawing.
Many Ways of Seeing
It investigates themes and issues in art such as the concept of originality, interpretation of visual language, symbolism, and examination of the categories of fine art and folk art.
Children's Fine Art Gallery
Let your students appreciate the work of their peers with this impressive gallery of student work from across the grades.
Art can be a great motivational tool for learning any subject. Check out these art lessons that have been directly applied to other disciplines.
ARTSEDGE Kennedy Center
Teaching Materials focuses on the national art education
standards and provides K-12 teachers with curriculum units, lesson
plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teaching.
Topography of Your Face
The students will explore the topography of their faces through the sense of touch. They will create a map of their face and paint a topographical portrait with color of their face.
Tessellations
This site will explain the basic mathematics underlying tessellations, as well as allow you to browse through many examples of tessellations in real life.
The VKP Curriculum
Downloadable lesson plans, suggested artworks, and additional resources for use with standard high school curricula.
