67 Art Lessons and Projects for all Grades

67 Art Lessons and Projects for all Grades

Here are 67 art projects and lessons for younger and older art students, covering many art genres and subject areas. 45 of these, from Elementary Visual Arts, are available as separate downloads in the folder linked above, and this document nicely details out 22 art lessons and activities (also in a smaller file size).

• 3D Kinetic Sculpture, Alex Calder
• Architecture, Art Nouveau, Natural Forms
• Art Brut and Symbolic Figures, Jean Dubuffet
• Color Field Paintings, Helen Frankenthaler
• Colorful Words and Telling Images, Visual Storytelling
• Comic Book Style Self-Portraits, Roy Lichtenstein
• Day of the Dead, Exploration of Warm and Cool Colors
• Degas Dancers, Pattern and Unity, Movement in Art
• Elements of Art, Charley Harper
• Elements of Art, Cy Twombly
• Elements of Art, Tree of Life
• Expressionism, Cubism, Marc Chagall
• Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Paul Klee
• Figurative Narratives and Collage, Trenton Hancock
• Figure Drawing, Shape, Form and
• Georgia OKeeffe, A Closer Look
• Giant Kites of Guatemala, Cutural Holiday
• Introduction to Typography
• Landscape and Perspective, Maynard Dixon
• Landscape Materials
• Landscapes and Language Arts, Dr Seuss
• Language Arts, Visual Storytelling, Dr Seuss
• Memorials and Public Art, Maya Lin
• Mosaics, Art and the Environment
• Native American Culture
• Paper Quilts, Black History Month
• Picasso and Cubism, Self Portraits
• Plein Air Painting, Creating in Natural Settings
• Pop Art, Value, Shading, Hearts
• Popular Culture 3D Art, Jeff Koons
• Principals of Art, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
• Printmaking, Native American Heritage
• Scratchboard Landscapes
• Self Portraits, Amedeo Modigliani
• Self-Portaits Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism
• Self-Portraits, Frida Kahlo
• Sketches and Inventions, Leonardo da Vinci
• Spiral Jetty, Bird Habitat, Environmental Art
• Stained Glass Windows, Light Screens
• Statue of Liberty, Peter Max
• Street Art
• Symbolism, Modern Art, Collage, American Flag, Personal Flag
• Symbolism, Neo-Pop Artwork
• The Arches, Horizon Line, Foreground, Background
• Valentine Op Art Heart

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38 Coloring Books - with Narration

38 Coloring Books - with Narration

This is a nice collection of 38 coloring books for children from pre-school through 4th grade. Most of these include narrations which the child can read or be read to. Many of these books also have activities interspersed with the coloring pages.

• 63 Pictures to Color
• Air Bear Coloring Book
• Animal Care Coloring Book
• Aquarium Coloring Book
• Bear Aware Coloring Book
• Birds Coloring Book
• Boating Color Book
• Boating Safety Coloring Book
• Book of Mormon Coloring Book
• Career Coloring Book
• Christmas Activity Sheets
• Christmas Pictures to Color
• Elks I Choose Not to Use Coloring Book
• Floral Design Coloring Book
• Florida Scrub Coloring Book
• Hayden Library Design Coloring Book
• Kansas Coloring Book
• Kids Against Bullying Coloring Book
• Learning About Leaves Coloring Book
• Louisiana Coloring Book
• Minnesota Bird Coloring Book
• Mississippi Coloring Book
• NASA Spinoff Coloring Book
• Nature Recycles Coloring Book
• Neuroscience for Kids Coloring Book
• Nevada Wildlife Coloring Book
• Recycling Guys Coloring Book
• Salmon Coloring Book
• Sam Safe Coloring Book
• Sammy Soil Coloring Book
• Sibling Coloring Book
• Spuddy Buddy Coloring Book
• St. Jude Trike-A-Thon Coloring Book
• Stress Relief Coloring Book
• US Dept of Energy Coloring Book
• Wallys Adventure Coloring Book
• Wetlands Coloring Book
• Young Beekeepers Coloring Book

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33 Drawing, Sketching and Painting Books

33 Drawing, Sketching and Painting Books

Here are 33 books that teach and demonstrate budding artists how to draw, sketch and paint (all in the public domain, published before 1923). Some are more illustrative than others.

• A Guide to Landscape Drawing in Pencil and Chalk
• A Manual of the First Principles of Drawing, with the Rudiments of Perspective
• A Practical Treatise on Drawing, and on Painting in Water Colours
• A Series of Easy Lessons in Landscape Drawing Contained in Forty Plates
• A Treatise on Landscape Painting In Oil, in a Series of Easy Examples
• Advanced Perspective, Drawing of Objects
• Drawing from Nature, A Series of Progressive Instructions in Sketching
• Elementary History of Art, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
• Elements of Perspective Drawing, or The Science of Delineating Real Objects
• Freehand Perspective and Sketching
• Handbook of Elementary Drawing
• How Children Learn to Draw
• Introduction to the Art of Painting in Oil Colours
• Mechanical Drawing Self Taught
• Practical Directions for Portrait Painting in Water Colours
• Practical Drawing, A Book for the Student and the General Reader
• Practical Hints on Colour in Painting
• Practical Hints on Composition in Painting
• Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting
• Pupil Teachers Handbook for Teaching Elementary Drawing
• Simple Lessons in Landscape Painting
• The American Drawing Book, a Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist, Vol 1
• The American Drawing Book, a Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist, Vol.2
• The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour
• The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, Satins, etc
• The Art of Painting Restored to Its Simplest and Surest Principles
• The Art of Sketching from Nature
• The Book of the Cat With Facsimiles of Drawings In Color
• The Early Drawing Book
• The Handbook of Pencil Drawing
• The Theory and Practice of Water Colour Painting
• Vere Fosters Painting for Beginners, Stage 1 2
• Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 drawings

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30 Art Lesson Activities and Projects - All Grades

• 3 Art Lesson Activities and Projects - K-Grade 2
• 9 Art Lesson Activities and Projects - Grades 3-4
• 10 Art Lesson Activities and Projects - Grades 5-8
• 8 Art Lesson Activities and Projects - High School

These are wonderful lessons plans detailing art lesson activities and projects for all grade levels, from kindergarten through high school. A total of four pdf documents covering all 30 art lessons.

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Boundless Art History - High School

Boundless Art History - High School

This art history survey text covers all the world's art history in 30 well written, detailed chapters.Each chapter contains 4-9 sub-chapters, and each sub-chapter has from 4-7 sections. Each section provides a Learning Objective, Key Points, and Key Terms. Total number of pages is 2,958 and file size is 40mb.

Contents:

1. Thinking and Talking About Art
2. Prehistoric Art
3. Art of the Ancient Near East
4. Ancient Egyptian Art
5. Art of the Aegean Civilizations
6. Ancient Greece
7. The Etruscans
8. The Romans
9. The Byzantines
10. Islamic Art
11. Art of South and Southeast Asia Before 1200 CE
12. Chinese and Korean Art Before 1279 CE
13. Japan Before 1333 CE
14. Native-American Art Before 1300 CE
15. Africa Before 1800 CE
16. Early Medieval Europe
17. Romanesque Art
18. Gothic Art
19. The Italian Renaissance
20. The Northern Renaissance
21. The Baroque Period
22. South and Southeast Asia After 1200 CE
23. China and Korea After 1279 CE
24. Japan After 1333 CE
25. The Americas After 1300 CE
26. Oceania
27. Africa in the Modern Period
28. European and American Art in the 18th and 19th Centuries
29. Europe and America from 1900-1950 CE
30. Global Art Since 1950 CE

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