This site presents drawings by the architect I.M. Pei and his design team for the National Gallery's East Building, which opened to the public in 1978.

In this instructional activity, students will watch artist Christopher Hart draw a cartoon dog, then draw one themselves. The teacher will convert the drawing into digital format for students to edit. Additional lessons on editing,...

The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to lesson collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon drawing, assessment,...

The Permanent Collection comprises some 17,000 artworks. This includes historic and contemporary, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, video, as well as other materials that may be considered...

Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.

Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.

Students learn the importance of protecting pictographs as part of their geologic heritage by making their own paint using natural ingredients to create art.

Art unit in which students draw their homes and share these drawings with students in a foreign country Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to lesson plans.

In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.

Use this site to learn about the fascinating world of Gypsy-made leather puppets. This nomadic tribe is always on the move carrying their puppets and musical instruments seeking permission from village leaders to perform for monetary...

This site offers tremendous drawings by Vincent van Gogh that are listed in alphabetical order. Peruse through the listings and gaze upon some of the most creative works of art in history.

Take the pressure off your students of drawing the human face. With this lesson create a self-portrait with collage materials.

This site is from Pen & Ink Art by RC Guthrie. Fabulous examples of completed pen and ink stippling drawings. There are also works in progress to see how the artist actually works. A great site to show the technique!

The National Museum in Warsaw is actually a collection of five museums: the modern National Museum, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at the Krolikarnia Palace, the Poster Museum at Wilanow, Radziwill Palace in Nieborow and Romantic...

Twenty-seven techniques, from basic to fairly complex, are described to help artists better use pencils as an artistic medium.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

This cave painting lesson is to be used in conjunction with the fictional novel, "Boy of the Painted Cave" by Justin Denzel. With or without the book this lesson will give pupils an opportunity to dive into history and recreate art forms...

An award winning site containing fantastic information on Leonardo as a man, an artist, and an inventor. You will find detailed analysis of his paintings, a section containing his drawings, articles on his life, designs for many machines...

This art lesson combines a variety of skills: tracing, cutting, shading, drawing, pasting, composition, and painting. The steps and processes are included, as well as pictures of students' work.

This lesson plan has students identifying the use of polygons in cubist portraits.

This site gives a comprehensive overview of expressionism in art, literature, and music.

See an example of how one teacher used this painting by Tintoretto to inspire her students to write and draw.

An extensive collection of dinosaur clip art that can be used for educational purposes. View and use both color and black-and-white illustrations of Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor,...

This site provides excerpts from John Ruskin's essays of J.M.W. Turner's paintings. There are several paintings and drawings at this site and some biographical information about Ruskin. The excerpts are reprinted from "The Works of Ruskin."