Painting Tutorials and Lessons

Teacher Guides

Introduction For Those Teaching Painting
This page details what you'll need to teach painting in Art Room settings: paper, paint, and other materials.

Painting Tutorials and Lessons

The Basics of Painting in the Art Room
The first painting lesson looks at how you should care for your art room equipment. There's also the basics of brush control.

Colour Theory
An introduction to colour theory. There's also my Jigsaw PDF to download. Students can colour this in to learn about colour theory.

Tints and Shades
Teach your students about tints and shades. I have a PDF for you to download. This contains four exercises where students have to use light and dark colours.

Imagination
Some simple exercises here to encourage imagination. After all, we're would be in art without imagination?

Still Life
Not strictly just a painting lesson, but plenty of exercises in all art media, from Pencil to Collage.

Impressionism
This page highlights the work of the impressionist painters. There's two tasks here than can be helpful to art students.

A Jungle Art Project
This projects is meant to bring on skills in colour mixing, tones, hues, as well as observational drawing.

An Art Project With Music As The Theme
Colours, music and moods are linked together in this lesson.This is one of my favourite art lessons as it involves music!

An Introduction To Pop Art
This is a short introduction to pop art. I've included some projects that are quite fun to do.

 



 

Tutorials and Lessons

Shading Exercise for a drawing tutorial