My fifth graders are finishing up a unit on elements of color and a study of Henri Matisse.  We began by doing a complementary color exer...

As I have said before my school is new this year- so my fifth graders are coming from a variety of educational and art educational back...

My first graders looked at some of Cezanne's still life paintings with apples and looked closely at how the apples have different h...

The following are examples of K & 1 students after examining paper cuttings by Matisse. Kindergarteners testing out cutting symmetrical...

After the Black and White collage  lesson I showed my students the video Dropping in on Matisse . It is a great video- about 25 minutes, an...