Have you ever tried utilizing artwork postcards to show or evaluate essential artwork ideas? It’s a enjoyable approach to expose your college students to nice art work, educate or evaluate essential ideas, and supply a hands-on studying expertise all on the identical time.

The place to seek out artwork postcards

All you want is a set of artwork postcards or different small reproductions of fantastic artwork. A lot of my artwork postcards are from native artists saying an exhibit or open studio occasion. I like to gather artwork postcards once I go to museum present retailers, too.

Greeting playing cards and calendars are nice sources for small reproductions, too, together with museum catalogs and brochures. I’ve additionally discovered outdated books at yard gross sales that I’ve lower images from. However remember that something printed on skinny paper ought to be glued onto cardstock for sturdiness.

If you happen to don’t have already got a set like this, now is a superb time to start out! You’ll be amazed at how rapidly your assortment will develop when you’re on the look-out for artwork postcards.

Tips on how to educate or evaluate with artwork postcards:

This exercise works greatest in case your college students are seated in small teams of not more than 4 or 5. If their desks aren’t already organized that approach, you possibly can have them sit in small teams on the ground.

First, educate or evaluate the artwork idea you wish to concentrate on that day. Some examples I’ve used are landscapes, portraits, nonetheless lifes, seascapes, summary artwork, realism, 2D, 3D… you get the concept! I often write every idea on the board as I educate or evaluate it.

Subsequent, cross out a stack of randomly chosen artwork postcards to every group and ask college students to kind them into units. For instance, you might ask them to put summary artwork in a single group and representational artwork in one other. Or ask them to “Discover all of the portraits”, or “Discover all of the 3D artwork” of their stack of playing cards.

Then, have college students select somebody of their group to share their outcomes with the remainder of the category. Or, you possibly can assign the scholar who’s tallest, oldest, has the closest birthday, and so on., altering the “necessities” every rotation.

Another choice is for every scholar to have their very own card. Then name out one of many Components of Artwork or Rules of Design. Have college students discover that factor or precept within the artwork on their card. As you possibly can see, the probabilities are infinite!

You’ll take pleasure in these advantages once you use artwork postcards to show or evaluate…

1. You’re not consuming any supplies, so it’s simple in your finances.
2. You may adapt this exercise to no matter ideas you wish to educate or evaluate.
3. Artwork postcards get your college students trying carefully at artwork and utilizing artwork vocabulary to speak about it.
4. College students can be utilizing the upper stage considering abilities of evaluating and contrasting.
5. Children actually take pleasure in being hands-on and interactive.
6. You may simply do that for a complete class interval. Or, you need to use this as “filler” for simply 10 minutes if in case you have further time after ending different work.
7. College students will study that inside any given class of artwork is all kinds of types.
8. This exercise could be loved with quite a lot of ages. Sorting artwork postcards could be as difficult and complex as you wish to make it. I’ve seen adults turn into completely absorbed doing this!

Essential notice: Be sure you fastidiously test each the back and front of your artwork postcards for age applicable content material earlier than giving them to your college students!