Inside: Students use creativity in this art appreciation game for kids with a free art appreciation printable. Students are shown a small piece and draw the rest. Recently, I was looking at the Prado Museum website researching links for my year of art appreciation post. I found a little thumbnail sketch of the painting, and…
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6 Early Finisher Activities Featuring Works of Art
Inside: Six art history-focused early finisher activities for students who complete their classwork long before everyone else. These activities are inspired by works of art with a focus on art history. One of the biggest challenges any teacher faces is what to do with the early finishers. You know the students I’m talking about – the…
Beyond the Poker Table: 25 Dogs in Art
Inside: There is more to dogs in art than just dogs playing poker! Check out 25 of these fetching examples of dogs in art. Next week is Chinese New Year which starts the year of the dog! To celebrate the year of the dog and to honor the newest member to my family (meet my…
My Art Bucket List
I’ve had the great fortune of seeing a lot of incredibly amazing art in person with my high school/college travels to Europe and my recent travels to NYC, but there are still many artworks that I long to see. Here are the artworks that I haven’t met in person yet but absolutely need to before…
Artwork of the Week: Goya’s The Repentant Saint Peter
This week for our Artwork of the Week (formerly Wordless Wednesday), I decided to do a little digging into the artwork of one of my favorite artists, Francisco Goya. The usual suspects for Goya are The Third of May, Saturn Devouring His Son, and The Disasters of War, but I wanted to find something I…
The Best Examples of Emphasis in Art
Here’s another Elements and Principles of Art list to help you in planning your art lessons! Today’s post includes example artworks for emphasis in art. It was hard to break this one down to categories, because chances are if the artwork shows emphasis well, it usually used more than one element or principle to do…
Artworks that Show Line
Inside: This is ultimate list of example artworks that show the different types of line in art for your elements and principles of art lessons. The list of types of line in art includes implied lines, diagonal lines, gesture lines, outlines, contour lines, expressive lines, and more! I don’t know about you, but I often find…
A Year of Art Appreciation for Kids: 52 Artworks your Child Should Know
I have compiled for you a massive list of artworks for you to look at with your kids this year. I picked one artwork for each week of the year, and I tried to pick the best of the best. If you haven’t been showing art to your kids, this is a great list to…
