Easy and inspiring Cricut Joy projects for beginners. Learn how to use the machine plus a few projects to get started.
Get inspired for the school year with high school art project ideas. Check out how I scaffold courses, start the first day, and more.
This year my school adopted a new schedule. Now, instead of seeing my classes daily for 47 minutes, each day we drop one period. In addition, each class has one weekly “long block” that is 68 minut…
A seriously silly and fun activity my students did at the end of the year-- I am also going to add it to my drawing activity binder for this...
Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen & these Michelangelo Art Projects for Kids are perfect for the kids to learn about him!
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.
Magritte painted regular people and objects - in a completely irregular style! Learn more about the artist with these Rene Magritte Art Projects for Kids.
Why did Edvard Munch paint 'The Scream'? Find out this and more about the artist with the help of these Edgy Edvard Munch Art Projects for Kids.
Here's an absolutely stunning faux stained glass project my junior high students recently finished. These are made from black construction paper and tissue paper. They took about a month or so to finish, due to the intricate nature of all the steps. To start off, I showed students a slideshow about the stained glass in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. I showed them a video of how stained glass is made (the technique hasn't really changed in hundreds of years!). So then students started planning their own design. It could be any subject matter. I demonstrated how to make one using thick black construction paper. The key thing is you don't want the lead lines too this. I told them a minimum of 1 cm thickness, but many made them thinner! This resulted in lots of torn bits that they had to tape together on the back. So here are the basic supplies- mini cutting boards, x-acto knives and parchment paper. Make sure you use good quality and nice pure black construction paper. Tru-ray is the best brand in my experience. Anything less than that doesn't not cut cleanly and is too flimsy. To make it symmetrical, some student folded their paper in half vertically. They drew their design in white pencil crayon. Shading in what needs to be cut out really helps. Include a border as well, to hold the whole thing together. A finished cut piece. Then cut a sheet of parchment paper slightly larger and trace the black paper outline onto it and cut that out. This will be what you glue the tissue paper too. There are two ways to attach the coloured tissue paper. I call the first way kaleidoscope. Using watered-down glue, just collage various ripped colours of tissue onto the parchment paper And voila. Let the tissue paper dry and then glue the black paper on top carefully using white glue. The second method is if students want a specific colour for each section. You basically cut tissue slightly larger than each space and glue stick it on the back. This technique takes a bit longer. Here's some more progress photos: back view I hung these in a long hallway with lots of windows and they looked stunning with the light shining through!
Science meets art in these amazing Alexander Calder Art Projects for Kids! Play with lines, shapes and colors to make beautiful sculptures and paintings! "To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect." When you think of artists, we think of slightly eccentric souls, wandering along lakes or forests with their art materials, trying to capture that elusive sun beam or bloom. The last think you'd expect is an artist who's gone and studied something as practical as mechanical engineering! But that's Alexander Calder, American artist. He's not one to fit into any kind of mould, and his works of art aren't just hung up on a wall or standing on a pedestal - they actually move! Now you see how the engineering part fits in! What you see here is Calder's famous work, the 'Cirque Calder' or Calder Circus. What you don't see here is that all the parts of this circus can move - from the performers to the animals. And that is exactly what makes Calder's work so special and unique. He was also a man of many talents; along with sculpting and painting, he also designed jewelry, rugs, tapestries and sets - he even painted an entire airplane! Alexander, or Sandy, was from a family of artists. His father and grandfather were sculptors and his mother a portrait artist. Young Sandy's first sculpture was a clay elephant, when he was four years old. He started out making jewelry for his sister's dolls and then went on to design jewelry for other well known artists and their families - Joan Miro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall and Peggy Guggenheim. With 22nd July being Calder's birthday, we think it's the perfect time to introduce kids to this amazing artist and his works, with some fun and simple Alexander Calder art projects for kids.
🇮🇹Per la prima volta a Firenze arriverà una grande mostra dedicata ad Alphonse Mucha, padre dell’Art Nouveau. Saranno oltre duecento le opere presenti nel percorso espositivo che… 🇬🇧For the f…
Join me for today's Folio Flip Album Tutorial where I share how I created this cute Folio with Recollections card stock and Colorbox paper.
Jo and Roach, girls for a wlw short story about vampires and legal disputes in south Paris
10 Leonardo Da Vinci Projects for kids - Leonardo Da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man - painter, inventor and scientist.Study his life and ideas
My students had so much fun constructing giant papier mache heads. I posted earlier this year about the construction process for this project, but I wanted to follow up with this post on the final …
Teach children the basics to paint like Pollock in just 40 minutes. Great for grades K-2, kids learn new techniques with paint, yarn and becoming fearless
Learn the simple steps to creating surface pattern repeats by hand
Hey, friends! I know that today is typically "crochet day" around here, but I had a different type of sewing project I had to complete and I thought some of you might be interested in
The master of metallics, Klimt loved painting with gold leaf & patterns. Let's learn more about this artist with some Gustav Klimt Art Projects for Kids!
Acclaimed illustrator Christoph Niemann shares the 10 rules that guide his drawing practice as part of our Manifesto series.
By Kellie Day in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials I’ve always been fascinated by encaustic art and the eerie, soft look it has. All those layers of wax are incredibly intriguing, and up until recently, were a complete mystery to me as to how they were created. Just to give you an example, here’s a close-in detail of an encaustic piece entitled Fire Divided by encaustic artist and teacher Shawna Moore. Amazing, isn’t it? So smoky and soft, and textured! For those […]
Here are some fun tips and techniques on adding flourishes to your hand lettering and art from the book Modern Calligraphy and Hand Lettering: A Mark-Making Workbook for Crafters, Cardmakers, and Journal Artists. If you would like lots more, like...
Dale Chihuly is one of my favorite glass artist. You see his work a lot here in the Northwest. He even had a piece on the Frasier TV show. But not all of us can do blown glass. I really like wh…
Not just for bees, you can make incredible mixed-media art with wax. Discover encaustics and encaustic art techniques with this must-have free tutorial.
This is officially the craziest project I’ve ever done. And that’s saying a lot coming from someone who created a pinwheel made of 800 wood spoons. I wanted a large piece of artwork that was unique and out-of-the-box for the big wall in my music room, and I think this 46″ square, 6400-piece wood bead...
Stretch your art budget by making your own huge DIY picture frames for less than $20 each with this step-by-step tutorial.
Revive the lost art of crochet temperature blankets with me in 2019! Let's bring this vibrant project back to life.
