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| Still-life lessons teach students observational drawing skills, color mixing and blending and how to identify and use warm and cool colors. Students learn about and are inspired by the works of many famous artists including Georgia O'Keefe. Still life offers the opportunity to learn about composition, lighting and explore and experiment with many mediums. |
| Mask-making for Children and Teens encourages students to create a make-believe character to express emotions or thoughts. Students learn about 3-dimensional construction, they will also study and be inspired by masks of different cultures including Native Americans and tribal cultures of Africa |
| Self-Portrait lessons allow students of all ages to study their own faces, recognize what makes them unique and learn how to express a mood or feeling in a portrait. It also offers the opportunity to study features, values, proportions and other important factors in producing a good portrait while learning to use different mediums. Students are introduced to self-portraits of famous artists like well known Frida Kahlo who expressed intense emotions into her self-portraits. A self-portrait can be an exact likeness or an abstract whirl of thoughts and feelings. It has the potential to create a myth, tell a story, suggest sadness or jubilation. A self-portrait is a persons version of themself. |
| Landscape lessons teach students of all ages to use placement, overlapping, size and porportion of shapes to create a sense of space while considering their own environment. Students are exposed to landscapes of famous artists including David Barbero who utilizes simplified shapes and vibrant colors in his paintings of the southwest. Students are encouraged to experiment with mediums and develope thier own styles while learning some basic priciples of art. |
| Abstract lessons allow students to explore shape, line and color without predetermined expectations. Students learn that art equals choice and that all answers are "correct." Without the fear of making a mistake, students are egar to learn, experiment and make independent, creative choices. |
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| Mask-making offers opportunities to work with numerous materials, both traditional art materials and creative recycled and found items. This project offers the students a chance to be original, creative and expressive while learning a vast number of basic art principles. |
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| Below is a small sample of lessons and objectives in the Art Start Program |