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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Descriptive Drawings - Pen and Ink - Art with Text

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils create a pen and ink drawing using words to determine values choosing a work with high emotional content and incorporating words that describe the picture's content placing words together tighter, made bolder, etc. to achieve...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Edna St. Vincent Millay

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to the comments of Wendy Wick Reaves, curator at the National Portrait Gallery, as she discusses the art of William Zorach in the portrait he did of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Milton Avery

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to the reflections of Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of the National Portrait Gallery. She discusses Sally Michael Avery's pen and ink drawing of her husband, Milton Avery.
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Other

Foundations in Art : Cross Hatching

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware site that shows examples of cross-hatching in pen and ink drawings. There are examples from students and a great Albrecht Durer drawing of pillows.