Thursday, September 11, 2014

Visual Art Activities

Embrace a mask project to introduce students to Egyptian Craft.


Visual Craft helps students progress many skills. Among them are spatial intelligence, eye-hand coordination and demiurgic botheration solving. They further sanction a teacher to impart lessons in Craft story and how contradistinct Craft movements came into life. These lessons let on students to accept how societal influences, technological advances and the essence caution of artists influenced their grindstone. Last of all, these assignments help students develop into close with and adept a diversification of Craft media.


Drawing With Dali


The Surrealist movement in Craft began in Europe in 1924. In the two pieces they create, they’ll learn to incorporate what they learned from doing a copy of Dali's painting.

Egyptian Mask Making

One of the most recognizable symbols in Egyptian art is the funeral mask. The students Testament cook a series of three Surrealist drawings. In the beginning one, they’ll re-create Dali’s delineation "Persistence of Mind's eye." In the ensuing two, they’ll constitute their own Surrealist-style drawings. By copying Dali’s duty, your students will get down about how a great artist creates his work. The most noted of all the Surrealist painters was the Spanish painter Salvador Dali. Down this Craft action, your students Testament apprentice approximately the Surrealist movement and as well fabricate assorted pieces of Surrealist assignment. To cook this project, bunch up graphite and colored pencils, Craft paper and photocopies of Dali’s job.



If you would like to introduce an Egyptian art and history unit to your class, one fun way to do it is through an Egyptian mask-making project. To do this project, print off the mask pattern (see Resources) onto card stock. Ask your students to embellish the mask based upon what they’ve learned in this art history unit. They can use colored pencils or paint further as add items like glitter, sequins or beads to the mask. To enhance the history aspect of this assignment, assign them a history report. Have them discuss the role of the funeral masks and the tombs or any other aspect of Egyptian life that would support the assignment.


Student Still Life


The still life is one of the staples of art. These drawings and paintings of items like fruit, books, flowers and other household objects offer much to the art student. Not only do they teach them about pictorial composition, they also gain an understanding of values and tones in art. Still lifes also provide a neutral palette upon which students can try their hands at different styles of art. This exercise will help students in all of these areas. To do this project, gather some reference photos of still life pictures. You want pictures done in several styles, such as Impressionism, Realism and Cubism, to name a few. After the students have been exposed to the still life, ask them to make one of their own in the artistic style of their choosing. They can use a variety of art media to complete this project, from pencils to oil paint, depending upon their level of skill.