Handmade artist books: a cross between a functional object and handmade art piece. Here are 12 examples of beautiful artist's books.
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In this simple artist study, kids look at paintings by Swiss artist, Paul Klee, and create their own with watercolors and pastels.
Introduce your students to Keith Haring's colorful pop art with these printable Keith Haring for kids resources.
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71 peintures à colorier. Coloriages d' oeuvres de grands peintres comme Van Gogh, Magritte, Cézanne, Matisse, Caillebotte. Coloriage artiste peintre.
The climb through the Guggenheim’s retrospective of the late abstract painter’s work feels like a secular pilgrimage.
This Picasso inspired art project is a wonderful introduction to Cubism for the kids. This is great for an individual or a collaborative project.
The 2nd Grade students studied the artist Vincent Van Gogh and his artwork. We also read the book, Camille and the Sunflowers. The students were able to create a giant sunflower creating emphasis in their artwork. Then they were shown how to blend colors using oil pastels. The students had to choose a cool color for their background to make their sunflower "pop" in their piece of art.
We have looked at constructing the human head from a few simple angles. In real life, of course, we rarely see people’s heads directly facing us or in perfect profile. The heads of real, living people are mobile and expressive – they tilt up, down, or to the side, moving relatively independently of the body. The diagrams in art books have their place, but rules of thumb like ‘the ears reach from the eyebrows to the bottom of the nose’ are useless for almost every head you will actually see. So, if the subject is in front of us, we have to rely upon our eye. If we are drawing from imagination, we have to rely upon a practiced familiarity with what heads look like from different angles. In the blogpost on Drawing the Simple Head we started with a solid, three-dimensional form, a sphere, and drew measuring lines on it to help us place and relate the features. This is a more detailed look at the same thing. How the features change In the diagram below I have drawn some examples of how the features change their appearance as the head moves through various positions. By the way, we’ll discuss the muscles and forms of the neck separately. For now, think of the neck as a cylinder below an egg-shaped head. It is a bit lower in the front than at the back. Top row: We see the head shifting from being angled down to being angled up. See how in the first stage the eyes get obscured under the brow, and the mouth under the nose. The position of the ears is very helpful: as the head looks down they rise above the browline, and as the head looks up they fall below the level of the mouth. Note also the importance of that extra plane under the jaw, between the chin and the neck. Middle row: The head turns from the back toward the front, gradually revealing more of the features. Bottom row: A rotating side view of the head. As before, the ear is a particularly good indicator of what’s going on. Below I have included a further diagram illustrating how the appearance of the head changes. I found this online and have no idea where it is from, otherwise I would provide a credit – but I wanted to share it as it’s a great illustration. Notice the contour line that runs down the front of the face, and see how it runs over the features, extending out along the nose, turning back in underneath, curving over the lips, and down the neck. Not only is this a guide to the direction the head is pointing, it models the head as it goes, reminding you that all these features have their own forms, their own solidity, their own depth or extension in relation to one another. Even an experienced artist, though he or she doesn’t usually bother to draw guidelines over everything, is on some level imagining the line is there. You should study this and copy each angle shown. But of course, that isn’t enough. You need to draw as many real people’s heads as you can. Hundreds of heads, from every direction. Don’t forget to look from behind, too. Find photos of people on the internet and make drawings from them – by eye, no tracing! They don’t have to be detailed, polished drawings. The purpose for now is to learn the placings and proportions. The jaw Pay particular attention to the changing shape of the jaw as the head moves around. You can see from the illustration above that when we look downwards the jaw converges into a triangular shape. When we move head upwards, the tip of the chin draws level with the angle of the jaw. And when we tilt the head upwards further still, we see a distinct plane where the bottom of the head meets the cylinder of the neck. Perspective We all know that objects get smaller as they get further away. This applies to the nearest and farthest parts of the same object, too. In the illustration below, note how the length of the book gets shorter as it recedes into space, and how the far edge becomes shorter than the near edge: We find it easier to imagine a box in perspective than something as awkward as the human head. So think of the head as a kind of box. As the head turns away from us, it will recede into space and the distances will grow shorter. Using the divided ball and plane method, we divide the head into thirds to help us place the features. In perspective, the lengths of the thirds will get progressively smaller as they recede, i.e. towards the bottom of a head tilted down, or the top of a head tilted up. Now draw heads Remember, humanity is diverse, so please don’t reproduce the same face countless times over. Look for a variety of age, sex, race, mass, etc, because your work will be richer for it. Below are a couple of sheets of heads that I drew for this exercise: not polished masterpieces, just sketches done fairly quickly to try and capture certain angles. You should probably be more adventurous than I was here. You learn a lot doing extreme angles.
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Looking for ways to teach your kids about famous artists? Here are some simple hands-on art activities inspired by great artists to get you started! These activities are fun for kids of all ages-- including
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Learn about the artist Wasilly Kandinsky and make your own version of his famous Kandinsky circles picture, exploring colour theory
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Illustrator Julianna Brion studio visit - live/work space. Baltimore, MD.
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Explore the most important works by Ukrainian-Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, father of the abstract art movement, Suprematism.
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Albeit not factual, Tove Jansson likely infused the various Moomin characters with some of her own personal traits and qualities.
Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.
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John and I had a fun day in the studio recently. We both wanted to do a bit of experimental mark-making, to explore new ideas. John is looking for inspiration for his printmaking and I thought it would be interesting to play with marks and compositions which could be the starting points of new drawings or which might possible translate into textiles. We gathered lots of tools and then made a few new ones, looking for anything which would make an unusual mark if dipped in paint: We decided to stick to black and white, so we could concentrate on marks and tone. I mixed up a tub of black acrylic and got out some Platignum Calligraphers Black Ink too (a good non-waterproof ink, as it separates into pretty colours when wet, rather than just going grey). I found an oil bar and some liquin too, which is great for smearing not just oil bars but also oil pastels. Plus a Derwent Inktense block and grater (tiny gratings can be scattered onto wet paper or sprayed with water for speckled effects). We both put on latex gloves and set-to on a big piece of cartridge paper each. It was such fun - no pressure to make something which 'works', just pure experimentation. This was my first sheet: I am particularly interested in randomness, so many of the new tools we made were designed to make the marks more hard to control. To add to the random element, we both cut up our sheets into equal pieces, using pre-decided measurements, not aesthetic judgement to create the sections: I like the way it changes things when you isolate a section. The emphasis on the various elements changes, because of the enforced edges, and you start to get interesting things happening with composition. On my 2nd sheet, I started with some large marks in a grey emulsion, to create a new element of contrast. I made a new tool too - a piece of corrugated card to print with. You can see the marks top right: I cut this one into squares. As the paper's dimensions didn't divide exactly into squares, this allowed me a slight element of judgement, as I could move the composition of any square a centimetre or two to the left or right. I then selected the best 6 squares from the 9 created. These are my favourites. It's surprising how well they work just as they are, but you can also see how they could be taken into print or textiles. It would be fun trying to find ways to reinterpret the marks and tones in the different medium. I can highly recommend this as a very enjoyable way of exploring new techniques and getting new inspiration. The randomness is important though, as a way of forcing you not to be too controlling and letting unexpected things happen. John did some experiments using blotting paper, which he tore into strips. Even the offcuts were interesting, which I saved as we were clearing up. The beautiful blue is the Platignum ink: Even my offcuts were quite interesting: Have a go. Even before we got drawing, it was good fun making the tools from odds and ends we found around the studio, taping them to bits of stick and then finding out what marks they made.
