~​A​r​T​ Skills Choice Board~ 
Art elements
Pointillist Painting
Why should Seurat (or Yayoi Kusama)
have all the fun? Take a still life or
landscape composition and turn it into a
dot extravaganza. You can definitely use a
paintbrush to make the dots, but it can be
too tempting to resist changing up your
strokes if you use a conventional brush.
Solution? Use a handful of old pencils
with intact erasers​.
● Artist Index
Timeline
When was Realism taken place? Include
some key world events that may have
influenced this artist.
● Art History Resources on the
Web
Interpretation
Based on Child at Play by Jacob Lawrenc,
what do you think the artists were trying
to say? Why do you think he chose this
subject?
● The Artists.org: the Major 20th
Century & Visual Artist
Find music
Take a look at Marc Chagall’s painting. Artemisia gentileschi is an artist from
Can you identify a color scheme? Why the Baroque period, finding music
do you think the artist might have relating to the time period, what is the
chosen the colors she/he did? Do they characteristic of that time period?
make sense? What kind of lines did the
artist use? How does the texture add to
the work?
● Glossary of Art
● The Artists.org: the Major
20th Century & Visual
Artist
Write a brief biography
Make an Abstract Painting
Is it something you do often or have Explain about his/her life, what type of
never done before? Working abstract is artwork, medium, movement(requires
great as a warm up with big, 250 to 300 words)
unhindered gestures and lots of
movement in and around your surface. ● Art History Resources on
It can also lead you to discover
something about combining materials, the Web
unusual marks and effects, and that
realism doesn’t have to be your aim.
● National Gallery of Art
(Smithsonian)
Find his work
Make a Copy of a Famous Painting
Select a minimum of five works by on the Small Scale
Jacque David from the Virtual Gallery What’s an artwork that you love that
and post them. lives in a museum? Choose a famous
painting and make a smaller version of
● Artsource it. You’ll learn more than you think
about how that master worked and
discover where you might have created
the masterpiece a little differently.
● Artsource