Eatons Hill State School - Teacher Reference

Art Lessons with Water Examples

Cool Colors Shows cool colours on a colour wheel. With a Monet example of how cool colours have been used.	Impressionism With a Monet water scene.
Luminism A painting with a lake is used to illustrate how artists made a different approach to light.	Mary Cassatt Short biography of the artist, with a painting featuring water.
Mood Uses 'Paris Street: Rainy Day' to show mood.	Plein Air A Monet painting is used to illustrate a short article about outdoor painting gaining popularity.

Projects

Deep Silver	A study of M. C. Escher's 'Three Worlds', a watery still-life.
Down the Drain	Students' names are hidden in the overlapping pipes.
Drip ... Drop	An interesting line activity.
Foggy Boat in Charcoal	Full instructions. Use charcoal and pastels.
Gone Fishing	Construction fish. Scroll down for other fish ideas.
How to Marbelize Paper	Use water and paint to mimic the beautiful Japanese craft.
Koi Pond	A torn paper collage of a pond.
Let's Paint Sailboats	Demonstrating warm and cool colours.
Mixing Mediums	Use a variety of materials to produce a seahorse picture.
Musical Art : Watercolours	Suitable for all year levels.
Rainy Day Watercolours	First graders use crayon and watercolours to produce colourful works of art.
Sea Turtles Underwater	Lesson plan for middle and upper years. Oil pastel resist.
Smoosh Painting	Learn about the characteristics of liquids through this art activity.
Tropical Fish Panorama	Basics of drawing an animal. Uses coloured pencils.
Water Drops	Studies of waterdrops.
Water Lily Origami Pop-Up Card	This is a maths lesson as well!
Watercolour Lilypads	Uses watercolour pencils.
Watercolour Straw-blowing	For first to fifth graders.
Watercolour Techniques	An introduction in basic watercolour techniques for grades 5 to 8.
Yellow Submarine Gallery	Collages inspired by the song.