Students draw a cartoon door knob upside down, copying
each line, shape and space as accurately as possible.
When they have finished they turn their papers right
side up and are usually very surprised to see how
great their door knob looks.
Students are then free to add cartoon arms and legs
and a fun background.
This lesson is one of the students’ favorites. Drawing
the door knob upside down helps the student to access
the right side of his brain and see things exactly
as they are. The logical left brain knows too much
about things and tries to tell the artist what SHOULD
be there instead of seeing what IS there.
Head
& Face/front view
Running time 49 minutes
Children
draw and color portraits of each other.
Using
pencils and fine point makers (optional) for drawing,
and crayons of colored pencils for coloring.
Teaches
children to observe proportion and the placement
of the features as well as the special characteristics
of their model, such as freckles, hair styles, etc.
Iris
Running
time 44 minutes
Students
draw and paint two iris’ using pencils, pens and
watercolors.
Teaches
the simple geometric shape of the flowers.
Teaches
how to paint and shade them to make them look soft
and more realistic.
Shows
how to paint a watercolor wash for the background.
Jack-O-Lantern in a Wizard’s Hat
Running
time 38 minutes
Students
use pencils, pens, crayons and watercolors to create
a wonderful jack-o-lantern in the sky.
Teaches
shading and how to make the jack-o-lantern look
round and three dimensional.
Teaches
placement of eyes, nose and mouth in a face.
Teaches
how to color him and wash watercolor right over
him [crayon resist] to make a sky.
Suggests
fun things to add to the sky.
Kandinsky Style Painting
Running
time 32 Minutes
Students
use geometric patterns, pens and watercolors to
create modern art paintings in the style of Vasily
Kandinsky
Lesson
teaches that a work of art can be just form and
color.
Discusses
some of what Kandinsky wanted to express through
his nonobjective paintings, his striving to convey
mood and emotion through color and form and his
joy in the beauty and simplicity of geometric shapes.
Haystacks
in the style of Claude Monet
Running time 37 minutes
Using
crayons to draw and color haystacks in a field in
the manner of Claude Monet.
Emphasis
on light and shadows (in complementary colors) and
on coloring a landscape as it really appears, full
of many beautiful colors.
Discussion
of Claude Monet and Impressionism.
Picasso
Cubist Face
Running
time 32 Minutes
Students draw and color a great face in the cubist
style of Pablo Picasso using pens and colored markers.
Students learn about cubism and the wonderfully
creative life of Pablo Picasso.
Lesson discusses his constantly changing style and
his passion for his work.
Pot
of Geraniums
Running time 36 minutes
Painting
Geraniums growing in a pot using any color in the
watercolor box for the flowers.
Teaches
how to paint the blossoms and leaves in two layers
of color so the plant has depth and shading.
Teaches
children how to blend colors together.
Puppy
Face
Running
time 57 Minutes
Students draw and color a cute puppy face using
pencils, pens and colored pencils or crayons.
The lesson teaches students how to begin with a
basic circle and gradually change it into the shape
of a puppy’s head. Both a realistic and a cartoon
face are demonstrated and the children are free
to choose which kind of puppy they want to draw.
They often draw a dog they know.
The lesson discusses proper proportions, different
kinds of ears, simple backgrounds and texture.
Rabbit
Running
time 44 minutes
Students
use pencils to sketch a rabbit and a background.
Complete
the drawing with pens and crayons or colored pencils.
Discusses
perspective in the background
Teaches
how to estimate correct proportions on the rabbit.
Presents
ideas for several different backgrounds and encourages
children to create their own.
Santa
Face
Running
time 41 minutes
Students draw and color a wonderful
Santa face using pencils, pens and crayons.
Lesson teaches students to sketch
the basic round shape of Santa’s face adding the
features, mustache, beard and hat.
Lesson also discusses how to shade
his face, hair and hat so they look more real and
three dimensional and teaches how to make the eyes
look bright and alive.
Snowman
Running
time 39 minutes
Works
well as two sessions - students draw with video
& can color on their own.
Drawing
and color in a snowman.
Teaches
perspective on a sphere and proportion while drawing
a fun fantasy snowman using black and colored markers.
Discusses
background.
Encourages
kids to use their imagination and have fun with
art.
Swan
Running
time 42 minutes
Level of difficulty - 2 or 3 (dependent
on art experience and maturity of the student).
Students
draw and paint a floating swan using pencils, pens
and watercolors.
Lesson
shows students how to use their pencils to measure
the proportions of the swan.
Demonstrates
how to draw tall grasses coming out of the water.
Teaches
how to paint water and how to represent reflections
in the water.
