Category Archives: Art Projects with Students

Mrs Chiu’s Art room – online!

In a quest to develop my tech skills and make my classroom more accessible to parents I’ve created a google site for my classroom activities.  It’s a place to showcase…

Breaking Faces: Cubist Self-Portraits

My grade 8 students have just finished doing a unit on self-portraits. After mastering (more or less) the facial proportions in a self-portrait colour pencil drawing, I then told them…

Down Under paintings with my students

I recently completed an Australian Aboriginal style painting project with my grade 7 students. We looked at examples of Aboriginal art, focusing particularly on the ‘dot’ painting technique. We then…