Meet our Spotlight Instructor Nathalie Kalbac, one of the instructors of our newest course Mixed Media Journaling. Learn more about her and her creative arts.

I wanted a way to hide the big black box! The new TVs with frames and digital art are cool, but expensive and I wanted an option that worked without having the TV on all the time. So I decided to make a frame with art canvas panels that open like binary doors. And you… Read More DIY hidden TV art frame

Artist Sean C Jackson’s meticulously drawn mazes are inspired by urban landscapes

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Smooth out the resin learning curve with these TOP 10 RESIN TIPS. They cover everything that a resin beginner needs to know to get great results every time. Even the experts follow these resin tips to make sure that their resin projects work.

Here is a list of 31 easy watercolor art ideas for beginner artists. Have fun creating stunning, colorful watercolor paintings!

Create a metal tooling design using 5 unique visual textures, arranging elements in either a static or dynamic composition for maximum impact. See examples of student work to gather ideas on your next metal embossing art lesson!

If you could design a roller coaster what would it look like? This STEM activity gives kids a chance to create using simple materials.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mix one form of art with another? We are sure that you have had this thought once or twice and wondered what

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A key figure in the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein stands out via his distinctive style and confronting works. Let's take a look at 10 of his greatest!

You’ve seen them... Right ? Those beautiful looking watercolor charts with a rainbow of fantastic colors. It’s only natural that you want to make one yourself. That’s exactly how I felt when I began my adventure into watercolors. So I looked for a simple tutorial about how to make my own watercolor mixing chart. But

About The Artwork Abstract grunge poster created using handmade camera-less photographic negative and subsequently manipulated with computer software. This digital art is printed as a giclee print on 300 g Somerset paper. Unframed, unmounted. Signed on the front. The colours sometimes vary on the computer monitors and may differ from the original version. Original Created:2018 Subjects:Abstract Materials:Paper Styles:AbstractAbstract ExpressionismConceptualMinimalismModern Mediums:DigitalManipulatedNew Media Details & Dimensions Digital:Digital on Paper Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork Size:11.8 W x 17.7 H x 0.1 D in Frame:Not Framed Ready to Hang:Not applicable Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube Shipping & Returns Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments. Handling:Ships rolled in a tube. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines. Ships From:United Kingdom. Customs:Shipments from United Kingdom may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks. Have additional questions? Please visit our help section or contact us.

Before I begin a new course or a series of paintings, I have to collect my thoughts. I spend a lot of time gathering various images, items from nature, poems, music, old journal entries, sketches, texture, and color. This process seems to move me in the direction I need to go. Right now, Magnolias,

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I’m not a sketcher or very good at drawing.but I do make some rudimentary sketches for most of my landscape quilts. These are very broad and simplistic ideas of the way I want the art quilt to flow and appear. Much of what I use the sketches for is to figure the proportions of the Read the full article...

Fraction Number Line Art Students will design a scene by creating a number line road and and dividing the road into fractions/equal parts. Then students will draw landmarks at specified fractions on the number line. Students will convert numbers to improper fractions and mixed numbers Included: 2 Student Assignment sheets (fractions and mixed number) 2 Worksheets with Follow-Up Questions Tons of photos of student samples Can Be CREATIVE and FUN! Let your students be creative and apply what they have learned about fractions by creating CUTE Art! Use as a group project, home project, assessment or classwork. This looks great on a bulletin board! Standards 4.NF.1 4.NF.2

"a river runs through it" mixed media on canvas 36"x12" do you ever feel overwhelmed by the barrage of information or sheer amount of words, images upon images, (even the relevant/beautiful/powerful ones)? overload. do you struggle with the weight and worth of your additions to the massive pile to sift through as i do? self promotion seems to be a necessity of our craft these days... yet, even when done humbly and respectfully it feels a little bit like pulling a bandaid. and throwing it in the pile. doesn't it? "a river runs through it" mixed media on canvas 12"x36" my attempt at a respite: step 1: unplugging. a walk through the fields. playing in the dirt. picking fresh vegetables. making a child laugh. jumping in a bouncy house. sipping my tea slowly. sitting around the fire with loved ones. leaving the camera at home. step 2: simplifying my own input. editing the heck out of my thoughts. ruthlessly cutting out unnecessary words. really digging to get to the heart of things. visually, if i must paint (and i must), this is not a joke: i paint everything white. i use mostly materials others would consider trash. i wash them in white (paradoxically, covering them in paint actually reveals their essence to me) and hesitantly proceed to add my contribution. then i feel that even this entire last paragraph was perhaps not entirely necessary. forgive me. then i add a few more images, not even ironically. and finally i say good night, without further editing. "a river runs through it" detail would love to hear your strategies for dealing with information overload! please do share!

Un nouveau thème sur le blog SODAlicious... Brainstrom Voici ma page d'art journal... Je bloquais sur le sujet depuis quelques jours, et je n'avais pas envie de dessiner un cerveau... D'abord parce que je ne sais pas dessiner ! Et en plus ça me rappelle un peu trop le boulot. Bref. Je suis tombée sur ça sur Pinterest ce matin... Alors j'ai pris ma page blanche et puis voilà... Pas la peine de réfléchir en fait... Allez c'est à vous, vous avez jusqu'au 7 février ! A très bientôt Aurélie

Discover how to create stunning bubble art with your kids! Our step-by-step guide to bubble painting makes this fun and easy activity perfect for young artists. Learn the best tips, tricks, and

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I just wrapped up a super fun and VERY COLORFUL Fauve-inspired self-portrait lesson with my fourth grade kiddos. This lesson included so many things: drawing a cartoon or caricature version of ourselves, using chalk pastel in an unusual way, creating pattern and design with oil pastel for a watercolor resist. It was mixed-media to the max with beautiful results. Here's a quickie lesson I put together just for you and your kiddos: Lemme just say this: I DO NOT enjoy teaching self-portrait drawing to my older kids. They are so stinkin' hard on them selves that it is painful to watch. We will do a more in depth selfie drawing later this year (if time allows) but for now, this was a fun way to ease in to it. These works of art will be featured in our Artome Art Show and therefore have to be 9" X 12"...I really think this would be a great lesson on a bigger scale as the kids could achieve more detail. Normally, my lesson for fourth grade and Artome is this Romero Britto one. While I love that lesson, it does take forever. Also...I have a group of kiddos this year that would just be frustrated with that lesson. I decided to create a lesson based around their interests (working big and bold!) and their attention span (I know my people, what can I say) and this proved to be it. Each kiddo was super proud and successful. Day One: Each kiddo had a bingo dauber filled with slightly diluted India ink. After doing some quiet sketching for the first five minutes, we gathered and chatted about creating simple selfies on our paper. Because of the large line of the dauber and the small size of the paper, the kids learned quickly that they had to work big and without tiny details. They also were not to use pencil first but to just GO FOR IT. I only had one rule: YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY AS YOU LIKE...but if you start a selfie, even if you think it is a "mess up", you must finish it. Each kid ended up with between 3- 5 to choose from for the next class. Extras will be used in upcoming projects. The following art class, we started using chalk and "elephant snot" or liquid starch. I get my Sta-Flo liquid starch from Walmart. The best chalk pastels I have found are made by Faber-Castell. The colors are just so bright! Day Two: Chalk and starch those bad boys! If they finished one, many kids asked to work on their other drawings. I was totes cool with that! Day Three: Create a background! Using our Sargent bright oil pastels, we drew patterns all over the background of our selfies. Then we used liquid watercolor over that. Each is just as beautiful as the next! I cannot wait to see these at our art show. Will keep you posted on what the other kiddos are creating!