Visual Art Resources
Theresa Cerceo – Visual Arts Educator
Grades K-12 • MSAD 33 Frenchville / St Agatha School District
Unit: My Choice Based Art Classroom
Grades: K - 12, Elementary, Middle and High School
Description: This is a resource unit based on 12 years of classroom experience, student assessments, surveys and revision based on student need. These resources were created to work in a Proficiency Based system but the real focus is on teaching the practice of reflection in order to promote student growth in the creative process.
Grades: K - 12, Elementary, Middle and High School
Description: This is a resource unit based on 12 years of classroom experience, student assessments, surveys and revision based on student need. These resources were created to work in a Proficiency Based system but the real focus is on teaching the practice of reflection in order to promote student growth in the creative process.
Jennie Driscoll – Visual Arts Educator
Grades 9-12 • Brunswick High School, Brunswick, ME
Unit: Color and Painting
Description: This is a sequential series of painting lessons working with color. Students will become introduced to color theory, color mixing and compositional skills. They will learn color mixing and use of watercolor washes and wet in wet color techniques. They will work with design, shape, and pattern. They will develop compositional skills and expressive qualities in their art.
Unit: Observational Still Life
Description: This is a sequential series of observational studies. Students will practice observational skills. They will develop compositional skills and learn to create emphasis using the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Media will include pencil, charcoal, cut paper, and paint.
Description: This is a sequential series of painting lessons working with color. Students will become introduced to color theory, color mixing and compositional skills. They will learn color mixing and use of watercolor washes and wet in wet color techniques. They will work with design, shape, and pattern. They will develop compositional skills and expressive qualities in their art.
Unit: Observational Still Life
Description: This is a sequential series of observational studies. Students will practice observational skills. They will develop compositional skills and learn to create emphasis using the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Media will include pencil, charcoal, cut paper, and paint.
Danette Kerrigan – Visual Arts Educator
Grades 6 - 8 • Sacopee Valley Middle School, MSAD #55, Hira
Unit: Alter Ego
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: Students will use their culminating skills with Art Studio to create a self portrait entitled “Alter Ego”This self portrait will illuminate an aspect of the student’s interests, dreams and aspirations that might be previously unknown to others. The lesson combines technical expertise along with symbolic representations, fantasy and visual strategies to convey a message that encourages students to think beyond “face value”.
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: Students will use their culminating skills with Art Studio to create a self portrait entitled “Alter Ego”This self portrait will illuminate an aspect of the student’s interests, dreams and aspirations that might be previously unknown to others. The lesson combines technical expertise along with symbolic representations, fantasy and visual strategies to convey a message that encourages students to think beyond “face value”.
Unit: Art Studio
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is a simple creation based lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a drawing using as many of the tools they can utilize.
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is a simple creation based lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a drawing using as many of the tools they can utilize.
Unit: Digital Landscape
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is a simple creation based lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a 9 layer landscape completely created with pieces of 9 different images.
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is a simple creation based lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a 9 layer landscape completely created with pieces of 9 different images.
Unit: Multiple Me
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is an extension lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a self portrait with 5 images of self, interacting in a an engaging composition. It should be completed after students have created an imaginary landscape.
Grade Level: 7 - Middle School
Description: This lesson is an extension lesson to help students become familiar with the tools of the Art Studio App. Students will experiment with and create a self portrait with 5 images of self, interacting in a an engaging composition. It should be completed after students have created an imaginary landscape.
Unit: Stop Motion
Grade Level: 7 Middle School
Description: Students will create a stop motion movie using the iMotion app with a minimum of 100 slides, including sound or music. Many students have familiarity with this or other stop motion software. As long as they are compatible with iMovie or another movie application, those others are acceptable. Students will develop an idea for the movie, create a story board, write a script, create any backdrop or materials necessary, film the movie and finalize.
Grade Level: 7 Middle School
Description: Students will create a stop motion movie using the iMotion app with a minimum of 100 slides, including sound or music. Many students have familiarity with this or other stop motion software. As long as they are compatible with iMovie or another movie application, those others are acceptable. Students will develop an idea for the movie, create a story board, write a script, create any backdrop or materials necessary, film the movie and finalize.
Brian McPherson – Visual Arts Educator
Grades K-5 • Woodside Elementary School, MSAD #75, Topsham, ME
Unit: Wabanaki Double-Curve Designs: Printed Patterns
Description: In this unit students will create a patterned print inspired by Native American Wabanaki double-curve designs. During the process the young artists will examine and analyze historic examples of double-curve designs created by the Wabanaki to decorate and enhance their cultural artifacts. This experience will lead the students to create personal interpretations of the double-curve designs that will be sued as the central design motif for a repeat patterned print. Students will prepare their finished artwork for a class exhibition and reflect on their learning in a written response.
Unit: Spiders & Webs
Description: In this unit the students will learn about art elements and design principles found in nature, using art materials, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, and how artists get their ideas. The young artists will create a repeated pattern crayon rubbing of an orb web and a mixed media spider.
Description: In this unit students will create a patterned print inspired by Native American Wabanaki double-curve designs. During the process the young artists will examine and analyze historic examples of double-curve designs created by the Wabanaki to decorate and enhance their cultural artifacts. This experience will lead the students to create personal interpretations of the double-curve designs that will be sued as the central design motif for a repeat patterned print. Students will prepare their finished artwork for a class exhibition and reflect on their learning in a written response.
Unit: Spiders & Webs
Description: In this unit the students will learn about art elements and design principles found in nature, using art materials, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, and how artists get their ideas. The young artists will create a repeated pattern crayon rubbing of an orb web and a mixed media spider.
Jeff Orth – Visual Arts Educator
Grades 7 - 12 • Richmond Middle/High School, Richmond
Unit: Artistic Response to Cultural Trends
Description: The main outcome is for students to show understanding of culture, how it grows and changes, how a trend can effect society, how to respond to a cultural trend and understand the printmaking process. Students will look at two artists and investigate their visual responses to the cultural trends of their time period. This project will culminate in th student identifying a current cultural trend, write about the effect (positive, neutral or detrimental) it has on society and create a visual response, using relief printing, that shows their viewpoint on the effect the trend has on society.
Unit: Surrealistic Painting
Description: The goal of this unit is for students to practice many color and painting techniques while also learning about the ideas behind surrealistic painters. The students will learn about basic color mixing, how to recreate colors found in source images and make as close to a photo realistic image as possible. The student then will learn about Salvador Dali and the work of other surrealistic painters. For the final assessment the student will create a surrealistic painting where the base image is realistic but there is some element or visual image that is 'out of place' in the composition.
Description: The main outcome is for students to show understanding of culture, how it grows and changes, how a trend can effect society, how to respond to a cultural trend and understand the printmaking process. Students will look at two artists and investigate their visual responses to the cultural trends of their time period. This project will culminate in th student identifying a current cultural trend, write about the effect (positive, neutral or detrimental) it has on society and create a visual response, using relief printing, that shows their viewpoint on the effect the trend has on society.
Unit: Surrealistic Painting
Description: The goal of this unit is for students to practice many color and painting techniques while also learning about the ideas behind surrealistic painters. The students will learn about basic color mixing, how to recreate colors found in source images and make as close to a photo realistic image as possible. The student then will learn about Salvador Dali and the work of other surrealistic painters. For the final assessment the student will create a surrealistic painting where the base image is realistic but there is some element or visual image that is 'out of place' in the composition.
