Educating Students in the 21st Century
| Monumental Pastel | |
High School LessonAfter being inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings, students created their own “monumental” pastel by blowing up a small section of an image. This project was a lot of fun because students choose subject matter that related to their own interests. Using a viewfinder, my high school students designed a composition by finding beauty in unusual places by zooming into an image to see it abstracted. They enlarged their image to develop observational drawing skills. Creating a non-objective composition teaches students the importance of the elements and principles of art. The last key objective of this project was to develop skill in a new medium, pastel, by blending and experimenting with different techniques. Please click on the student work to see the detail. 
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| By Heather on April 2, 2008 at 11:33am EDT | Topic(s): high school lessons student art work |
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