Dragon art lesson elementary

Let me say up-front: I did not invent this project! Renee Lentz posted pics of her student work in the Facebook Art Teacher group, and I asked if I could "steal" the idea (she said yes!) for my DragonWing Art students. Our theme this fall is masks and crazy faces, but I thought eyeballs could be a good intro. Thank you Renee - I only changed the project a little... Renee's students had painted on canvases that were primed black. Instead, I chose to let my three students use some scraps of…

My DragonWing Arts students this winter were working on globally inspired projects. They learned about the Mexican bark paintings called 'papel amate'. I showed them an authentic example, some samples I had made, and lots of photos of authentic work from Mexico. To create the faux 'bark', students used brown Kraft paper, either from a paper bag or from a roll. The edges were torn to make it look more irregular, and then the paper was crumbled up, dipped into a bucket of water, and squeezed…

Students will use a variety of artistic techniques to create a bright, vivid and wildly textured magnified dragon eye. When you look through the students’ dragon eyes below, note how remarkab…

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In this process lesson, students will make origami come alive by creating a dragon's eye! Students will follow a technique through origami to create the eye shape, draw the eye, eyelids, and then blend colors through pastels or colored pencils to finish the piece.

Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to draw a dragon eye for beginners. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: LINE, VALUE, and COLOR. Additionally, this lesson explores how to create a sense of IMPLIED TEXTURE, which is suggesting how something looks like it would feel in a

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How to draw a dragon eye using oil pastels - including steps to draw the basic parts of the eye as well as how to blend oil pastels together to create the im...