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LESSON	THEME	LEVEL	TITLE (click on title to download PDF)
1	Portraits	A	All About Me drawing what you see, self-portrait, Henri Rousseau
		B	New Clothes drawing, crayon rubbings, self-portrait, texture
		C	Put Yourself on a Stamp drawing, pen, self-portrait, postage stamps

2	Backview	A	What is in Back of Me? drawing, seeing details, using 2 mirrors
		B	From the Audience drawing, fan folds, Edgar Degas
		C	Hairlines drawing what you see, Alan Magee

3	Fantasy & Imagination	A	Flowers for a Giant's Garden painting with liquid starch and chalk, Yun Shou-p’ing
		B	Insiders illustrating, animals, ‘Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly’
		C	Night-Blooming Bizarriflora, A Fantastic Flower wax resist, black paint or India Ink, botany,

4	Puppets	A	Salt-Clay Stick Puppets salt-clay (recipe included), odds and ends, Italian puppets
4		B	Paper Bag Puppets paper bag, paper sculpture, odds and ends
return to top		C	A Dramatic Dragon tube sock, Dragon Battles Saints (French tapestry), puppets around the world

5	Faces & Figures	A	Baker's Clay People baker’s clay (recipe included), modeling, grave stele of Girl with Pigeons, bas relief
		B	A Potato Print Family drawing, beginning print making, potato, oil pastels or felt markers Charles Willson Peale
		C	Torn Paper Figures...and More paper tearing, crayon rubbing, body segments, Winslow Homer, composition

6	Landscape	A	What is a Landscape? The Subject Matter of Art landscape, paper collage, John Constable
		B	Pueblo: an Indian Village Scene drawing using chalk with a stencil, Southwest U.S. Indians
		C	Sunset in the Desert painting with watercolors, mixing colors, “tumbling” stroke, complementary colors, color wheel

7	Perspective (Space)	A	Drawing a Crowd drawing, perspective, Jacob Lawrence
		B	Here, Near and Far mixed media, perspective, Thomas Cole
		C	Black, White and Gray perspective, collage, white and black construction paper, white tissue, value, monochromatic

8	Masks	A	A Pyramid Mask paper sculpture, construction paper and scraps, odds and ends, top-of-the-head mask, Frigate Bird Mask -New Guinea
		B	A No-Such-Bird Mask paper sculpture, construction paper, Raven mask -Northwest Coast British Columbia, symmetry
		C	Echo Masks 3D mask, construction paper, odds and ends, Baule mask -Ivory Coast, contrast

9	Tempera Painting	A	Tints and Shades tempera paint, mixing tints and shades, Pablo Picasso
9		B	Lines and Colors tempera paint, George Rouault
return to top		C	Van Gogh Texture using a palette knife with tempera, liquid starch and paste, impasto, Vincent Van Gogh, texture

10	Watercolor Techniques	A	Surprise! An Invisible Drawing Is Revealed painting a graded wash with wax resist, watercolors, white crayon or paraffin, Raoul Dufy
		B	Adventure under the Sea graded wash, watercolors, Martin Johnson Heade
		C	Name Patterns a la Paul Klee initial patterns, crayons and watercolors, repetition, pattern, Paul Klee

11	Buildings	A	Inside the Outside: An X-Ray View of a House drawing, observation, crayons or markers, architect
		B	City Streets: A Fold-Up of a Street Lined with Buildings drawing, paper cutting and folding, shapes
		C	Painted Ladies: Colorful Victorian Houses drawing, crayons and watercolors, shapes

12	Real But Not Really	A	Imaginanimals: Animals that Never Were drawing, imagination, crayons or oil pastels, Bonnacon
		B	A World of Dreams and Fantasy: A Really Unreal Picture painting, oil pastels, imagination, center of interest, Marc Chagall
		C	A Matter of Scale: Making Little Things Look Big drawing, pen and ink, scale, surrealism, Claes Oldenberg

13	Figures in Action	A	Circle Dance drawing figures moving in a circle, crayons,observation, Ted De Grazia
13		B	Together for Dinner drawing a group around a table, crayons or felt pens, remembering details, Norman Rockwell
return to top		C	Foil Figures aluminum foil 3D figure, action, gesture line drawing, Leopold Maurice.

14	Winter Scenes	A	Snowman painting circles, textured tempera, granulated soap, blue or gray paper
		B	A Snowy Day mixed media, colored tissue paper, colored chalk, acrylic polymer, symmetry, Ezra Jack Keats
		C	Fall into Winter dry brush technique, crayons,tempera, blue or white paper

15	Toys	A	My Favorite Toy basic procedures with tempera paints, observation of details
		B	A Musical Toy paper maché, balloons, tempera paint, wood sticks, maracas
		C	Tobor,the Backward Robot fine line inked drawing, tracing paper, any drafting tools, creative imagining

16	Geometric Shapes	A	A Geometric Picture colored paper geometric shapes, collage, Paul Klee
		B	Geometric Quilt Blocks using squares and triangles, construction paper, scissors and paste
		C	Mask Design geometric shapes as design elements, black construction paper, oil pastels

17	Organic Shapes	A	Leaf Shapes shades and tints of green paper, symmetry, Henri Rousseau
17		B	Cut-Outs in the Manner of Matisse colored paper, positive/negative shapes, unity, variety, Henri Matisse
return to top		C	Botanical Drawing scientific drawing, fine line pen, Albrecht D¨rer

18	Printmaking	A	Tempera Leaf Prints relief printing, newsprint, tempera paints, tempera
		B	Styro-Prints relief printing, styrofoam or Scratch-Foam Board, rubber brayer, water based printing ink or tempera with liquid starch
		C	Nature Prints printing with natural materials, pressed leaves or grass, water based printing inks or tempera with liquid starch, rubber brayer

19	Space (overlapping)	A	Hide and Seek cutting technique, overlapping to show illusion of depth, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner
		B	Skyscrapers drawing the illusion of depth,crayon, fine line pen, parallelograms, perspective, Robert Cameron
		C	Drawing a Crowd:Strange People in an Elevator overlapping shapes to indicate depth, drawing paper, choice of medium, Pierre-August Renoir

20	Things That "Go"	A	Wheels:Designing around "Starters" transportation design, circle patterns, paper fasteners, Richard Scarry
		B	Bicycle:A Way to Go painting with tempera from direct observation, proportion
		C	Old Fashioned Animation sequential drawing to suggest motion, unlined note pad or large round carton, Mitchell Rose animation

21	Weaving	A	Up and Down, Over and Under beginning concepts of weaving, loom, warp, weft, textile, paper strips
		B	Textured Tapestry Weaving large eye tapestry needle, textured yarns, cardboard for loom, Navajo weaving
return to top		C	Weaving in Circles exploring weaving on a round loom, tapestry needle, yarn, odds and ends

22	Paper Construction	A	An Origami House folding and decorating paper, construction or other paper
		B	Gollywockers folding and fastening to make a 3-D toy, paperbag heads, large paper bags, odds and ends, paper decorations
		C	Boxes and Covers folding paper to make a functional form, squares of paper

23	Paper Sculpture	A	Crayon Batik Stuffed Fish creating 3-D form by fastening and stuffing paper shapes, paper bags or butcher paper, batik
		B	Cylinder Sillies forming and fastening paper to make a 3-D object
		C	Tube Towers building a structure from tubes, paper and glue, David Smith

24	Clay	A	Clay Beads making beads, terra cotta or other clay, (kiln), tempera, liquid floor wax
		B	Nature-Print Wind Chimes making a wind chime or decorative wall hanging, terra cotta or other clay, clay slip, (kiln), fresh leaves
return to top		C	A Leaf-shape Container using draped slab technique to construct a bowl, terra cotta or other clay, rolling pin or smooth bottle, ceramic glaze (kiln), large leaves

The Silicon Valley Art Museum Art Lessons are provided to you free. We hope the lessons are only the beginning of experimenting with different materials and art forms. This exploration encourages enthusiasm for the world of art throughout history and in all cultures. All nations and cultures can communicate through art.

Whatever your age, share the joy of artistic expression.

Our Free Art Lessons are available as an E-Book PDF file that contains 72 individual lessons created by Kay Alexander.

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