Here are some of my go-to pages for help and ideas:
Professional:
National Core Art Standards PDF Download HERE
Get Published in School Arts
Art Teacher's Group on Facebook - (It's private so request entry to participate. It's AWESOME!)
Supplies for the Art Room:
eNasco.com My Favorite Art Supply Company. Call them to get a 20% off discount code, & free shipping!
Crystal Productions My Favorite resource for Art Ed Videos, and Posters. (Both Nasco & Crystal do Books too)
Molly Hawkins I buy my paper and sharpie markers here. (No discounts and you pay shipping, but low prices)
NO BUDGET? No Problem: Read THIS
Free Stuff:
FREE PHOTOSHOP CS2
Art History Flowchart at the bottom of this page.
FREE education clip art HERE
Recycle old markers, ANY BRAND, Shipping is FREE: Thanks Crayola!
Tech. Focused:
Digital Arts Education
i-Pad Art Room
Programming Code "Art"
Uncomfortable Design
Bottle Rockets & Other Educational Crafts (Thanks Aubrey for the link!)
Resources for Digital Arts Class
More Digital Art Class Resources
Puppetmaster Animation App (All ages)
Plagiarism Checking Advice
Do you suspect an image is not by the student? HERE.
Resources:
Discovering Portugal Through The Arts Links to lessons and ideas.
Online One Point Perspective Help
The Art Story: An awesome art history and research resource
MARKY: Daily Dose of Contemporary Art
PBS - Artist created lessons, grades 6+
Origami Instruction Website
Street Art Website
Top 10 Mistakes by Art Students
The Art of Pi - STEAM
Autism Focused Lesson Ideas
Art History Resources
Art History - National Gallery of Art Resources
Visual Puzzles - STEAM-ish
An Artist a Day
One Point Perspective Worksheets
Two Point Worksheets here
Photo References through the ages
ArtNC - Resource to break down artworks for student interaction and understanding.
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, & Practice (Getty Museum)
Artsy - Lots of links and resources for classical and contemporary art. (some nudes)
The Architecture of American Houses
Careers In Art - An Info-graphic
Street Art from Google
The Art Institute of Chicago (Local Guide)
Book of Kells - Whole book digitized
Interesting Art/Potential Projects:
Art People - MANY potential projects, samples, and inspiration
Lauren Ryan's Pipe Cleaner Animals
Caricatures - Cartooning - By Nate Kap (contains some how-to videos and a few artistic nude studies)
Re-purposing - With a given item meant for trash, students find a new use as they did here.
Baroque Pattern Drawings - Inspirational work of Alex Konahin
Recycling Bottles and camps
Partnering High School and Lower Elementary - Art of "The Monster Engine"
Re-Purposing thrift store art - David Irvine
Home Made Lipstick (video) Good for making face-paint!
Odd Word Illustrations
Follow the White Rabbit - Click the rabbit to link to see the source of the image, Many potential projects!
Illustrating a famous Chinese Proverb. HERE
History of the Chandelier - Maybe design a light to evoke a particular school of art or artist...
TASK Art Party
Eco Printing VIDEO
Bubble Printing
Making simple Books
Suminagashi Paper Marbling
Ink Transfer Technique from James Rees
Photos developed on leaves by Binh Danh
Dome Cardboard Tent Project
Photography & Drawing Mash-up, Finding Faces Everywhere
Articles
The De-skilling of Art Education
A short history of Mental Illness in Art (Good article for reading and writing a response)
Other Awesome Blogs: (Alphabetical)
Advanced Art Ed Blog (College/AP) w/ Clara Lieu
Adventures in Middleschooling
Adventures of a Middle School Art Teacher
Angie Villa Art & Education
Art Class by Mrs. B
Art Curator For Kids
Art Ed 2.0
Art for the Creative Soul
Artful Advocate
Art is Basic
Art of South Brunswick High School
Art Room Blog
Art Room Online
Art Teachers Hate Glitter
Art Teacher Smile (Elementary)
Art with Mr. E
Athens Area High School
Build a New Box
Cassie Stephens Blog
Color and Texture and Paint, Oh My!
Create With Me (All levels)
Creating Art
Curkovic Art Units (MS)
Deep Space Sparkle
Donna Staten on Pinterest
Dryden Art
Elementary Art Fun
Friendly Neighborhood Art Teacher
Glueology (K-8)
Great art lessons for the creative soul
Gooneyberry Art
Gurney Journey
Hello Artsy
Incredible Art
iPaint
It's Art Day
Jen Dahl's Art Room
Kids Create Art
Life on Colors
Make Me Sanguine
Middle Web (Middle School)
Mills HIgh School Art
Mini Matisse
Miss Art of Teaching
Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists
Muddy Colors
Mrs. G's Magical Tree House (MS)
Mrs. Moncure Photography
MVM Art Room
My Adventures in Positive Space
My Artful Nest (MS)
Newberg High School Art
No Corner Suns
Once upon an Art Room
Party in the Art Room (Gr 1-8)
Pretend Studio (MS/HS)
Primary with Mrs. Depp
Princess Artypants
Project Art-A-Day
Puppy Jawns (Early Ele)
School Arts Room
Sharpie Woman (Elementary)
Spiral Workshop
Stephanie Brooks on Pinterest
Stick Figure Art (HS)
Student Art Guide
Teaching Art and Design
Teaching In Progress
The Art Adjustment
The Art of Ed
The Artsy Fartsy Art Room
The Helpful Art Teacher
The Lost Sock (K-8)
The Magnificent Paintbrush
There's a Dragon in my Art Room
The Teaching Palette
Tinker Lab
Voyager Paintbrush
Art Teacher's Art on Facebook (Closed forum, find and request entry. Art Teachers Only)
Professional:
National Core Art Standards PDF Download HERE
Get Published in School Arts
Art Teacher's Group on Facebook - (It's private so request entry to participate. It's AWESOME!)
Supplies for the Art Room:
eNasco.com My Favorite Art Supply Company. Call them to get a 20% off discount code, & free shipping!
Crystal Productions My Favorite resource for Art Ed Videos, and Posters. (Both Nasco & Crystal do Books too)
Molly Hawkins I buy my paper and sharpie markers here. (No discounts and you pay shipping, but low prices)
NO BUDGET? No Problem: Read THIS
Free Stuff:
FREE PHOTOSHOP CS2
Art History Flowchart at the bottom of this page.
FREE education clip art HERE
Recycle old markers, ANY BRAND, Shipping is FREE: Thanks Crayola!
Tech. Focused:
Digital Arts Education
i-Pad Art Room
Programming Code "Art"
Uncomfortable Design
Bottle Rockets & Other Educational Crafts (Thanks Aubrey for the link!)
Resources for Digital Arts Class
More Digital Art Class Resources
Puppetmaster Animation App (All ages)
Plagiarism Checking Advice
Do you suspect an image is not by the student? HERE.
Resources:
Discovering Portugal Through The Arts Links to lessons and ideas.
Online One Point Perspective Help
The Art Story: An awesome art history and research resource
MARKY: Daily Dose of Contemporary Art
PBS - Artist created lessons, grades 6+
Origami Instruction Website
Street Art Website
Top 10 Mistakes by Art Students
The Art of Pi - STEAM
Autism Focused Lesson Ideas
Art History Resources
Art History - National Gallery of Art Resources
Visual Puzzles - STEAM-ish
An Artist a Day
One Point Perspective Worksheets
Two Point Worksheets here
Photo References through the ages
ArtNC - Resource to break down artworks for student interaction and understanding.
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, & Practice (Getty Museum)
Artsy - Lots of links and resources for classical and contemporary art. (some nudes)
The Architecture of American Houses
Careers In Art - An Info-graphic
Street Art from Google
The Art Institute of Chicago (Local Guide)
Book of Kells - Whole book digitized
Interesting Art/Potential Projects:
Art People - MANY potential projects, samples, and inspiration
Lauren Ryan's Pipe Cleaner Animals
Caricatures - Cartooning - By Nate Kap (contains some how-to videos and a few artistic nude studies)
Re-purposing - With a given item meant for trash, students find a new use as they did here.
Baroque Pattern Drawings - Inspirational work of Alex Konahin
Recycling Bottles and camps
Partnering High School and Lower Elementary - Art of "The Monster Engine"
Re-Purposing thrift store art - David Irvine
Home Made Lipstick (video) Good for making face-paint!
Odd Word Illustrations
Follow the White Rabbit - Click the rabbit to link to see the source of the image, Many potential projects!
Illustrating a famous Chinese Proverb. HERE
History of the Chandelier - Maybe design a light to evoke a particular school of art or artist...
TASK Art Party
Eco Printing VIDEO
Bubble Printing
Making simple Books
Suminagashi Paper Marbling
Ink Transfer Technique from James Rees
Photos developed on leaves by Binh Danh
Dome Cardboard Tent Project
Photography & Drawing Mash-up, Finding Faces Everywhere
Articles
The De-skilling of Art Education
A short history of Mental Illness in Art (Good article for reading and writing a response)
Other Awesome Blogs: (Alphabetical)
Advanced Art Ed Blog (College/AP) w/ Clara Lieu
Adventures in Middleschooling
Adventures of a Middle School Art Teacher
Angie Villa Art & Education
Art Class by Mrs. B
Art Curator For Kids
Art Ed 2.0
Art for the Creative Soul
Artful Advocate
Art is Basic
Art of South Brunswick High School
Art Room Blog
Art Room Online
Art Teachers Hate Glitter
Art Teacher Smile (Elementary)
Art with Mr. E
Athens Area High School
Build a New Box
Cassie Stephens Blog
Color and Texture and Paint, Oh My!
Create With Me (All levels)
Creating Art
Curkovic Art Units (MS)
Deep Space Sparkle
Donna Staten on Pinterest
Dryden Art
Elementary Art Fun
Friendly Neighborhood Art Teacher
Glueology (K-8)
Great art lessons for the creative soul
Gooneyberry Art
Gurney Journey
Hello Artsy
Incredible Art
iPaint
It's Art Day
Jen Dahl's Art Room
Kids Create Art
Life on Colors
Make Me Sanguine
Middle Web (Middle School)
Mills HIgh School Art
Mini Matisse
Miss Art of Teaching
Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists
Muddy Colors
Mrs. G's Magical Tree House (MS)
Mrs. Moncure Photography
MVM Art Room
My Adventures in Positive Space
My Artful Nest (MS)
Newberg High School Art
No Corner Suns
Once upon an Art Room
Party in the Art Room (Gr 1-8)
Pretend Studio (MS/HS)
Primary with Mrs. Depp
Princess Artypants
Project Art-A-Day
Puppy Jawns (Early Ele)
School Arts Room
Sharpie Woman (Elementary)
Spiral Workshop
Stephanie Brooks on Pinterest
Stick Figure Art (HS)
Student Art Guide
Teaching Art and Design
Teaching In Progress
The Art Adjustment
The Art of Ed
The Artsy Fartsy Art Room
The Helpful Art Teacher
The Lost Sock (K-8)
The Magnificent Paintbrush
There's a Dragon in my Art Room
The Teaching Palette
Tinker Lab
Voyager Paintbrush
Art Teacher's Art on Facebook (Closed forum, find and request entry. Art Teachers Only)
Observation Check-list: Most districts have a rubric to follow when assessing teachers for observation. By taking the administration's rubric, and backwards designing it, you can create your own lesson outline like the one below. To create this, I looked at all the items to be "Highly Effective" on our district rubric and created this. If I don't hit it 100%, I'll at least earn "effective" which is fine.
Feel free to re-tool it for your own needs.
Feel free to re-tool it for your own needs.
| Observation Outline |
BUBBLE PRINTING: Loved by all ages.
Use just primary colors and discover secondaries.
Bubble Printing: (Use acrylic paint or whatever you have on hand. I hot glue cups to paper plates so they don't tip over and it gives a place for kids put straws down while printing. Cover tables too and you're good to go.) LINK TO VIDEO
Use just primary colors and discover secondaries.
Bubble Printing: (Use acrylic paint or whatever you have on hand. I hot glue cups to paper plates so they don't tip over and it gives a place for kids put straws down while printing. Cover tables too and you're good to go.) LINK TO VIDEO
Feel free to maximize and print this helpful art history resource. Poster available HERE.
A Basic Art History Flowchart
NOTE: For all of my 25 years of teaching art I have introduced my students to the great movements of art. Though vast and dizzying in it's array, I have chosen to start with the Renaissance, and end with Pop Art. So my full list would include the previously mentioned two plus Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism.
Arguments can be made to add earlier art movements, and we do touch upon the ancient and modern styles, but these are the 13 movements I require my students to know. There is some "fudging" so for example, we consider "The Scream" an expressionistic work because of it's heightened emotional value, so too is Fauvism put under the same umbrella, and we lump Post-impressionism into Impressionism because it helps kids recognize the key features of bold brushwork, working from observation, and a hidden "Z" pattern within the paintings. My feeling is that after an introduction, later classes, like Art 2, 3, 4, or AP can partition movements a bit more precisely. I lose no sleep if a first year art student calls van Gogh an Impressionist; actually I rejoice!
My final exam is one where students see 60 works of art, some they have seen before, some that are new, and they must use the visual clues to surmise the correct school of art. We play games, groups battle groups in a game-show-style contest to guess the art movement. They begin with a one page outline, and gradually move to no resource at all. Most do very well, but it has always been a challenge.
I had an epiphany one day and made this flow chart. It's hardly complete, and only gives a bit of direction, but students found it very helpful. It won't work for pre-renaissance movements, and some off shoots like Northern-Renaissance, or Grant Wood's Regionalism, Grandma Moses folk works, or Whistler's Aesthetic Movement, but it does do an awful lot that is helpful. Kids spot how American Gothic is connected to the Neoclassical Movement with it's rigid composition, and morality message though with a more modern twist. How Whistler is connected to the Realist movement in his approach, and Moses too though in a "Country Craft" sort of way.
I like how they argue within their groups citing visual evidence for their choices, pointing to brush work, the absence or presence of roman togas, the hues of the background. They are making astute visual observations, sharing them, and learning. It's the STEAM approach in full gear, a marriage of art and history.
They love the little stories I tell about the work bringing it into context; how the Rococo artists were hated by the Neoclassical artists and it paralleled both the American and French Revolutions. How Cubism and Expressionism included shattered and distorted images, while European society and bodies of it's soldiers were shattered and distorted through World War One. How World War two saw the emergence of the atomic bomb that did not shatter bodies, but vaporized them--while the Abstract Expressionists, at the same time, like Pollock and Rothko, vaporized all subject matter! That the Baby Boom led to massive consumerism, so no wonder Pop Art blossomed.
Though my list is incomplete, it becomes a good jumping off point.
Poster version available HERE.
Below is an advanced version I have been working on for some time. The high resolution poster is available at that same link above.
Arguments can be made to add earlier art movements, and we do touch upon the ancient and modern styles, but these are the 13 movements I require my students to know. There is some "fudging" so for example, we consider "The Scream" an expressionistic work because of it's heightened emotional value, so too is Fauvism put under the same umbrella, and we lump Post-impressionism into Impressionism because it helps kids recognize the key features of bold brushwork, working from observation, and a hidden "Z" pattern within the paintings. My feeling is that after an introduction, later classes, like Art 2, 3, 4, or AP can partition movements a bit more precisely. I lose no sleep if a first year art student calls van Gogh an Impressionist; actually I rejoice!
My final exam is one where students see 60 works of art, some they have seen before, some that are new, and they must use the visual clues to surmise the correct school of art. We play games, groups battle groups in a game-show-style contest to guess the art movement. They begin with a one page outline, and gradually move to no resource at all. Most do very well, but it has always been a challenge.
I had an epiphany one day and made this flow chart. It's hardly complete, and only gives a bit of direction, but students found it very helpful. It won't work for pre-renaissance movements, and some off shoots like Northern-Renaissance, or Grant Wood's Regionalism, Grandma Moses folk works, or Whistler's Aesthetic Movement, but it does do an awful lot that is helpful. Kids spot how American Gothic is connected to the Neoclassical Movement with it's rigid composition, and morality message though with a more modern twist. How Whistler is connected to the Realist movement in his approach, and Moses too though in a "Country Craft" sort of way.
I like how they argue within their groups citing visual evidence for their choices, pointing to brush work, the absence or presence of roman togas, the hues of the background. They are making astute visual observations, sharing them, and learning. It's the STEAM approach in full gear, a marriage of art and history.
They love the little stories I tell about the work bringing it into context; how the Rococo artists were hated by the Neoclassical artists and it paralleled both the American and French Revolutions. How Cubism and Expressionism included shattered and distorted images, while European society and bodies of it's soldiers were shattered and distorted through World War One. How World War two saw the emergence of the atomic bomb that did not shatter bodies, but vaporized them--while the Abstract Expressionists, at the same time, like Pollock and Rothko, vaporized all subject matter! That the Baby Boom led to massive consumerism, so no wonder Pop Art blossomed.
Though my list is incomplete, it becomes a good jumping off point.
Poster version available HERE.
Below is an advanced version I have been working on for some time. The high resolution poster is available at that same link above.
