Cropped Composition Paintings

All of my students really loved this lesson. They were able to pick a painting from a famous artist and then do some research on the artist in the library. They then cropped a portion of the painting and then replicated what they saw on a much larger scale. This lesson was to get the students familiar with color mixing, art history, the painting process, using a grid, cropping, learning about composition, and becoming more familiar with the process of painting.