Do You Use Anchor Projects? Try this in Your Digital Photography Classroom!
Last week I sent out a “teacher’s toolkit” for starting the year for graphic design including enough resources to help you get through the first week of
Teaching High School Graphic Design? This Start-Up Kit is for You!
Ahhh, the summer holidays. At this point in the year, you’re probably sitting on your back deck, sipping a glass of sweet wine and thinking,
What are Good Photography Movies That You Can Show at School?
For the graphic design and art documentaries, I reviewed some feature length videos. For photography, I found a really good series of videos on YouTube (which is always
What are Good Art Movies That You Can Show at School?
I wanted to do a post all about digital art documentaries that could be shown in the classroom, but it turns out that there really aren’t any
What are Good Graphic Design Movies That You Can Show at School?
It’s the end of the year, you’ve got projects finishing up, and it’s not quite time for finals yet. What can you do to fill
Need a Digital Art Final? Round Up the Year with a Project Assessment!
The year is rounding down! The end is in sight and you can smell the summer air wafting through your classroom windows…or maybe you just
Teach Students How to do Digital Art with these Great Curriculum Suggestions
Digital Art. The website is called Digital Art Teacher, but have you ever noticed that we don’t actually have an art curriculum focused on digital art? Today,
Make Your Needs Known: How to Reach Out to Your Administration
Most of my blog posts are geared towards students, but this one is just for all my art teacher homies! 😉 Today I want to
7 Elements of Design that Make Any Design Better!
For the past 14 weeks, we discussed and learned so much more about the 7 elements of design. We also went through numerous tutorials for
Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Create Space in Illustrator
This week ends our short illustrator projects focusing on the elements. And we are finishing up with space! It is important to understand space in digital art,
Elements of Design: Ways to Create Fantastic Positive and Negative Space
SPACE…the final frontier…Ok, so that’s not the kind of space that we’re talking about, but it is OUR final element to explore and there is
Digital Art Ideas for Beginners: How to Create Form in Illustrator
You know that since we are talking about form, we’ll be diving into some 3D effects in this post! As we learn how to do digital