I always try to have students create portraits several times a year.  However, this can become a bit monotonous for students (and teachers)...

We are working on a unit of portraiture, and today learned about Picasso!  I had the students first draw lightly with pencil. We then discus...

Have you all tried  kleki.com ?  It is so much fun, so easy to use, and free!  A majority of our students use the same type of computer prov...

With all the craziness & confusion about school in the district we live (I teach in the neighboring district), we decided to homeschool ...

Have you seen the art teachers posting portraits of famous works of art? The art teachers in VA started it....and I was excited to join in ...

'My practicum students created & taught their own lessons this week!!  It has been fun to watch them as they see success & area...

In our new scope & sequence we have portraits across all grade levels. I don't know about you, but doing the same thing over a...

Week 2 of the 2013-2014 school year brought us these fun "creature" portraits.  Week 1 we reviewed self portraits & creat...

(This child is wise beyond her years in many ways!  Love this portrait!!!)   The last lesson from my student teacher for Kindergart...

With the required curriculum for our district complete, I told my student teacher to have fun in creating lessons that she'd like...

Here are several of the portraits after the second day of painting!  

So after the struggles with the watercolor & creating good skin tones.....I switched it over to tempera.  This seems like it was a ...