Students completed research on individual artists. I chose the artists based on Scholastic Arts Magazines I had on hand. This allowed for the research phase to begin immediately and for the students to check out the magazines to complete research at home.
Students were given a handout with areas of importance to research including: life dates, art movement associated with, biographical facts, quotes about and from the artist, technique and interesting facts. This information was typed in a format and glued to the back of the trading cards. This was similar to a baseball card with player statistics.
The second phase of the project was to sketch and choose a major artwork to represent the artist on the front of their trading cards. Once the sketch was complete, students used light tables, windows, and transfer paper to draw their design on each card. Beyond this, students chose their materials based upon the artist materials. The materials used included: watercolor paint and colored pencils, tempera paint, Sharpies, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, oil pastels, markers, construction paper and scratchboard.
Students presented the artists in chronological order (the seating chart for this project was laid out chronologically with artist birth dates to encourage students to talk about connections with art movements and techniques). After presenting, students traded cards with one another and had a complete set of laminated artist
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