Element: Color- tints and shades
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Artist: Gustav Klimt
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Tips & Tricks: Have students choose either WARM or COOL background when painting.
Artist: James Rizzi
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Tips & Tricks: Provide Space Needle hand out for students to color, add a face to, and cut and glue to their city scape.
Artist: Georgia O’Keefe
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Tips & Tricks: When choosing tissue papers, limit students to 2-3 colors to keep creations simple to manage.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
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Tips & Tricks: There are different skin tones of construction paper available in the art docent cabinets
Artist: Claude Monet
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Tips & Tricks: Use tag board when painting with watercolors.
Artist: Ted Harrison
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Tips & Tricks: Use oil pastel to outline and chalk pastel to fill in. Spray finished artwork with finishing spray so chalk does not smudge.
PNW Native American Art
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Tips & Tricks: Recommend for 3rd Graders. This project goes well with their field trip to the Burke Museum. Mrs. Houghton has all the necessary handouts.
Japanese Gyotaku
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Tips & Tricks: Rubber fish replica is available in the Art Docent closet to use to make prints.
Artist: Jim Dine
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Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
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Tips & Tricks: For Starry Night, substitute paint with oil pastels for time efficiency.
Artist: Wayne Thiebaud