Still Life Painting Project: Elementary, Middle, or High

This upper elementary art, middle school art or high school art still life painting project is the perfect way to combine art making with art history. This art lesson focuses on the traditional subject, a still life, with a focus on artist Paul Cezanne. Using Cezanne's still life paintings as inspiration students create their own still life painting with a focus on value.

This pack includes everything you need to teach this project including adaptions for younger and older students. A demo video, 3 PowerPoint presentations, a project guide, and 3 activities are included to help students prepare and complete this art lesson.

This project is ideal for 5th-grade artists through 9th-grade artists but can be adapted for older and younger students.

All in all this still life painting project includes: 

• Lesson plan and teacher notes (9 pages)
• PowerPoint presentation on introducing the project (20 slides)
• Shapes to forms activity (2 pages)
• Pastel shapes to forms activity (2 pages)
• Project guide (2 pages)
• Demo video (16 minutes)
• Day 2 PowerPoint presentation with instructions (13 slides)
• Day 3 PowerPoint presentation with instructions (10 slides)
• Fast finisher still life design activity (2 pages)
• Project checklist (1 page)
• Project rubric (1 page)

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This still life painting project was created in collaboration with my amazing, wonderful mother, Anne Ward. She is a retired elementary art teacher of over 30 years. She has a wealth of knowledge in the art education field and still teaches private lessons, summer sessions, and acts as a resource for her former school county. My mom is the reason I became an art educator and now I am so excited to team up with her so she can help inspire other art teachers!