Mother’s Day Inspired Kandinsky Heart Color Study

Your Destination: (objectives) Create Kandinsky’s color study with heart shapes instead of circles for Mother’s Day. Through this lesson the students will be able to observe how colors interact together and interpret what the colors may represent to them. Travel kit: (materials)  Water-based paint (gauche, watercolor), paint brush, crayons, paper …

Claude Monet Finger Painting

Image from book, Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4, by Greta Heeb Your Destination: (objectives) The students will be ableto practice impressionist style techniques by recreating Monet’s “TheWater-Lily Pond”. Travel kit: (materials) Acrylic paint, paint brush,something to paint on! (canvas, wood, thick paper, title, panel). On the path …

Jerry Wilkerson’s “Banana’s”

Image from ASI Lesson Book-4, (Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4), by Greta Heeb Your destination (objectives): Recreate Jerry Wilkerson’s Bananas painting by having the kids practice pointillism. Tavel kit: (materials) Q-tips, paint (white, light blue, brown, green, yellow), blue paper/surface with blue background, pencil. On the path …

Jackson Pollock Drip Painting

Image from ASI Lesson Book-4, (Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4), by Greta Heeb Your Destination: (objectives) Recreate Pollock’s drip painting by replicating the direct, raw techniques that he used. travel kit: (materials) Wood/canvas, paint, paintbrush, pallet knife. on the path step 1 On your canvas, drip your …

Create Little People Sculptures – Sculpting Art Lesson

Image by Destination8infinity, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Your destination: (objectives) Using recycled materials, we are going to create little people sculptures. This will give students a chance to practice creating sculpture in a creative, fun way. Travel kit: (materials) Wire, cork, ribbon/fabric ,tape, plastic bag, wire cutter, scissors. …