Other
Alien Travel Guide: Styles of Painting
A descriptive site from Alientravelguide.com that explains nine different styles of painting.
Other
Art Lesson: Cut Paper Self Portraits
A slight variation to a classic art assignment. Includes suggestions for creating challenges for all age levels.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Frida Kahlo Issue
Learn about key aspects of Kahlo's art from this captioned exhibit of a stamp issued in 2001 to commemorate her.
EL Education
El Education: Big Bend Friendship Book
This children's book was created by the Big Bend pre-kindergarten class at The College School in St. Louis, Missouri. Each page of the book is dedicated to a student of the Big Bend class. Each student's page includes a drawn portrait, a...
EL Education
El Education: Class Portrait Poster
Kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this over-sized poster of individual student self-portraits. The portraits were part of an investigation of the students in the class- their similarities and...
EL Education
El Education: Pointillist Self Portraits
Students create self portraits from a digital image with a fine point marker.
EL Education
El Education: Self Portraits
Students work through drafting process to create self-portraits that later become the covers of autobiographical books.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Eugene Carrier Self Portrait
The collection of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes this self-portrait painting by Mary Cassatt, which may be enlarged. Descriptive text appears below the image.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Romaine Brooks
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Romaine Brooks is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her use of a basic palette (black, white, and grays) and her own self-portrait.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Frida Kahlo Biography
Explore this brief biography of Frida Kahlo, well-known Mexican artist.
Curated OER
Slate: Van Gogh's Expressionist Legacy
An annotated slideshow that focuses on the impact that Van Gogh had on the German and Austrian expressionists.