Country Barns

Students use a rectangle template and a ruler to make a grid, then connect the intersecting points to draw a very cool, 2-D barn. Children are amazed to see a familiar structure emerge from dozens of lines and angles. Once the drawing is complete, children paint using watercolors and colored pencils.

Photo-tutorials of the following techniques are provided: wet-on-dry watercolor techniques, 2-D fencing, colored pencil over watercolor

This lesson is one of the harder lessons I do with my students and makes a great lesson for middle grade students.
It takes four to five, 45-minute classes to complete but the results make it one of the more worthwhile projects. An excellent tie-in to a math curriculum.

Includes Common Core Standards printable

Castles

Always a favorite no matter what the grade level. Templates make it easy to draw the facade and towers leaving more time to draw turrets, drawbridges, battlements and Kingdom Banners.

Photo-tutorials offer suggestion on how to shade the castle for a 2-D effect.
Includes Common Core Standards printable

Victorian Homes

Positioning templates together makes creating your own Victorian home a snap! Drawing handouts illustrate the famous Victorian detailing. Leave as a black and white line drawing or use your favorite medium to color.
Includes Common Core Standards printable

Handouts Include:

-How-to-Draw Turrets, Flags and Castle Windows
-Drawing Victorian Dream Homes
– Barn measurement/grid
– Castle drawing guide
– Template guide
– Student Artist Statement

– Full-color photo-tutorials for every lesson
– Watercolor technique tutorials
– Student Galleries

How to Access your DIGITAL Lessons

By adding your email and password to our system, we can provide you with a history of all your purchased art lessons. This means you can access them anytime you wish through the “My DSS” button. Please note: Your “My DSS” password is unrelated to your e-course password

Once your payment goes through, you will be guided to a download link so you can see your lesson plan straight away. All lesson plans that you order will remain in your own personalized “DSS store” for access whenever and wherever you want so even if you didn’t received the link via email, you can always access the lessons via “My DSS”.

I like to print out my lesson plans and place in a lesson plan book, but if you are watchful of your ink supply, you may just want to print just the handouts. I’ve designed them in black and white so you can photocopy them easily and cheaply.