Lesson Plan: Lilian Garcia-Roig’s “Green Curtain”

This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for High School art teachers. The students will study the impasto style found within the artist’s painting. Then, the students will create their own impasto artwork using acrylic paint of canvas board. The students will complete the project by creating an artist statement that explains how they created and planned their finished composition.

Lesson Plan: Peter Hohnstedt, “Untitled (Canyon Scene Near Austin)”

This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. Students will study the Naturalistic painting methods used by Peter Hohnstedt in his painting Untitled (Canyon Scene Near Austin. The class create their own painting that features a Naturalistic style. Then, they will explain why they chose their selected landscape.