The Elemental Art Room

I found the inspiration for these lovely spring watercolor paintings on Art Projects for Kids . It's a terrific exercise in simple lan...

We're buried in self-portraits at school! I feel like SPs are an annual experiment, and I'm always trying to find new media and ins...

"Inked" plate ready to go... I've just started a printmaking project with 2nd grade, using foam printing plates from Schoo...

Because I'm very linear myself as an artist, it's tricky for me sometimes to break free of lines and take students on a more abstrac...

Those are definitely words you want to hear in the art room. This is the first time I've attempted to splatter paint with my students, a...

3rd-5th grade artists just completed Kandinsky color studies. We watched a few YouTube videos of his work, and I was amazed at how captivate...

Winter is merely a brief two or three days here in sunny South Florida (OK, maybe sometimes four), but that doesn't stop us from drawing...

I love lines, and once my students realize how important a role lines play in their drawings, they love them, too! When I first started te...

One of the biggest challenges I have with my kindergarten students is giving them opportunities to explore and be creative while keeping a c...