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Craig's Art Page - Craig has been a career teacher, a frequent presenter at PITA Conferences, and a past sessional lecturer for the West Kootenay Teacher Education Program (UBC).

Kirsten Paterson attended the art workshop with Nora Mountain, for those of you who couldn't make it this time around, you should definitely try and make it to her next one. At the workshop we focused on "Portraits" through great artists, such as, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso. We all made our own portrait bases on their styles. In addition, Nora brought some of her students' work. I have downloaded these pictures for you to see. Also, I was recently in a grade 8 Speical Needs classroom and we did the Amedeo Modigliani Portraits
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Picasso Portraits (made by PITA workshop attendees) If Picasso made witches (Nora's students' work)

Amedeo Modigliani Portraits (made by Nora's students work)

Amedeo Modigliani Portraits (made by workshop attendees)

Ray Myrtle recommends Drawing with Children by Mona Brooks as a great intermediate resource for beginning teachers. Get more information on this through a Start UP Your Class Successfully workshop. Check the startupyourclass.ca site for workshop information.

PITA Fall Conference Workshop Notes: F73 Silk Screening

I recently received this recommendation from Ray and in addition to being excited about finding this resource, I was also really excited when I searched online for more information about it and found [|Using Drawing with Children], which is a chronicle of one parent's experience with the book.

While this site was great to reference, it also had links to other art with children web sites like [|Art &amp; Learning to Think], -which is a bit more on the philosophical side but sound educational thinking for any subject, [|Homeschool Printables] by Donna Young, -which has Blackline masters for many subjects including art, and [|Art Projects for Kids] , which is wonderfully broken down into age/grade appropriate levels and offers clear and simple instructions on how to facilitate the projects with a class.

Marjo Thompson (West Kelowna BC) recommends: A //wonderful site// with many (free) simply amazing art lessons to consider trying out with your students: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/categorized_lessons.html --I mentioned it as a link on my own little website of art projects I have done with my daughters (definitely a work in progress but there are a few nice ideas here also: http://members.shaw.ca/icanpaintlike/

Nicole found some cool 'sidewalk' art- these pictures might be used to inspire students, and also to help them examine perspective. See the zip file for more fantastic examples.