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Apple Still Life Lesson (deep dive)

3/15/2022

Great for classroom teachers who need to teach art to their students

I put together a course to lead teachers step-by-step through a beautiful still life painting project with young students. You will not need previous art education experience to teach this lesson to your students. I will guide you through materials, techniques, and best practices so you can feel confident providing a multi-session rich lesson full of art concepts and art connections to your young students.
View examples of finished art from my first graders here.
The sequence of this course:

Planning Step (gathering your materials)
Preparing students for painting (Paint Neatly Fugleflick)
Exploring the apple still life paintings of Paul Cézanne
Teaching students the basics of creating the illusion of depth
Looking closely at the apple still life to recognize depth
Begin making: create a concrete tool for overlapping
Designing the composition: prepare the paper
Design the foreground apple
Design the middle ground apple
Design the background apple
Apply what you know about space to design the 4th apple
Draw the edge of the table
Finalize the design
Get ready to paint
Paint the base color of the wallpaper
Paint the base color of the tablecloth
Paint the apples
Learn about line, shape, and color pattern
Make simple pattern choices
Paint the first shape pattern
Paint the first line pattern
Paint the second shape pattern
Paint the second line pattern
Learn about craftsmanship with two Fugleflicks
Paint the stems and touch up the artwork
Get inspired to use your black marker with a Fugleflick
Trace the apple still life with black marker
Label and trim artwork
Glue and Mount finished piece
Share final piece and download* a slidedeck for instruction

*I have this lesson available as a powerpoint so you can easily teach it to your students now that you have carefully gone through all the lessons.

Rather grab the slides and start to teach?

I also have this lesson available as a ppt showing all the steps for art creation. Download this lesson and jump right in. Great for teachers with experience in managing media

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Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT,
is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in K-12 technology integration. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.