FREE printable Symmetry drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. A fun art and math activity in one! Kids will complete the symmetrical pictures by drawing the other half.
Apple, apples, apples! Did you know that there are more than 8,000 varieties of apples?! Me either! It does feel like I have drawn that many over the years and I especially love adding a cute face, arms and legs to bring them to life! I drew these little Apple Cuties a few years ago and wanted to remind you that the directions are still up on my blog. There is a printable pack of directed drawing papers too. FIND THE DRAWING STEPS Directed drawing can allow young students to feel successful on their journey learning to draw and helps to motivate their writing. We turned these big drawings into art projects with watercolour and brushes. You may also like to see our full Directed Drawing collection over at TpT including this one that is especially made for back-to-school!
Summer is almost over! How did that happen? Where did the last 2 months go? With a little under 2 weeks left until we go back to school my mind has been increasingly drawn to planning for the ne…
How adorable are these?!? This lesson took (2) art classes to finish (and I had JUST enough time to squeeze in one more lesson before the end of the year)! It’s a simple one —but packs in a bunch! …
A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!
In this post we will be discussing how you can use the golden ratio in art (aka golden mean) and to improve the designs of your compositions.
Printable coloring pages based on Pablo Picassos works like Guernica and The Weeping Woman offer a unique way to introduce his art style to students..
The minimum basics and fundamentals you need to know, to improve when drawing objects from imagination, for concept art and product design.
Art ideas for kids and families that are HILARIOUS!
The Kindergarten artists and PreKinders also created some artwork inspired by Mondrian. The PreKinders glued down black lines creating squares and rectangles they then colored some of their shapes …
Roy Lichtenstein name art, featuring Ben-Day dots
earning how to draw a mummy head is really easy and fun. We'll show you how to draw, outline, and color your drawings with markers.
A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw an Abstract Self Portrait Tutorial Videoge. Stop by, grab yours for free.
earning how to draw a mummy head is really easy and fun. We'll show you how to draw, outline, and color your drawings with markers.
We have another fun project for your kids (or you) to do during the hot summer months, this time we are sharing a fun summer agamograph template with you. Making an agamograph is really, really
A blog about how a failed painting made me rethink the theories of composition in my painting of Donegal, Ireland.
Your new source for art history related coloring pages. Famous artists and art movements included. Grab your own printable PDF.
You can grab these geometric art printable...and let your kids imaginations run wild! A perfect free printable to let the creativity flow.
Knowing that so many of us are teaching and creating remotely, I thought it would be fun to do a little art teacherin' online. I shared yesterday all of the resources of mine that are free and able for you to use if you need to prepare art lessons for at home artists. However, I wanted to create something fresh and new and do a little LIVE art teaching as well. So...here's what I came up with: Robot Week! What's Robot Week? Well, it will be a daily dose of creating centered around the theme of Robots. I'll kick it off on Monday this this lesson that I'll be doing LIVE but I will also attempt to archive to my YouTube channel. For this first LIVE, I'll probably go for about 30-45 minutes. We'll just play it by ear. If you and your young artists can make it, great! You can join me on my Facebook page here or on my Instagram here! Big thanks to our sponsor Dixon Ticonderoga for joining the fun! Free How to draw Robots resource for you! To practice, inspire or color! In my art room, we call these Idea Sheets. This one is yours here! Mitch said I should make y'all a coloring sheet...so here you go! On Tuesday, I won't be live but I will be posting a video on how to create robots that look more three-dimensional on my YouTube channel! Again, simple supplies can be used or swapped out for whatever you have on hand. I am super stoked about this one, stay tuned! I know we probably all have a couple of cereal or snack boxes laying around. For that reason, why not try your hand at a collagraph rubbing? It's when you cut and glue shapes to a surface, lay a piece of paper on top and then, using a "sleeping" crayon (one on its side), rub over your design. I then added a watercolor wash to some of mine! It's a Build-Your-Own-Bot kind of Wednesday! What to do with that cereal box collage? Well, on Thursday, I'll show you how to cover it in foil and make a print with just markers and water! Oh yeah, this one's magical! On the final day of Robot Week, we'll make a collage with one of my favorite papers to collage with: business envelopes! They have the coolest patterns and designs. I do hope you'll join the fun! If you do, I would love to see what you and your awesome artists create. You can email me your images at [email protected] and I'll try to feature them right here!
Every year in my first year classes (12 year olds) I touch on the principles of perspective, at least in its one point form. We do a little art history, take a look at Masaccio and Mantegna. We mak…
Learn 15 simple anxiety art therapy activities that can help reduce anxiety and lower stress. Feel calm instantly! Art Therapy Activities for Adults
These scarecrow silhouette paintings are perfect for the fall and Halloween. You can make them as haunting or cute as you want.
Students can travel across the globe without leaving the classroom. Check out these fun geography lessons for any grade and curriculum.
Et si on mélangeait la tradition de la couronne des rois et la découverte d'artistes peintres en créant une collection de "couronnes d'artistes" ? Après la couronne Mondrian avec ses carrés et ses rectangles, la couronne Delaunay toute en rondeurs,...
How adorable are these?!? This lesson took (2) art classes to finish (and I had JUST enough time to squeeze in one more lesson before the end of the year)! It’s a simple one —but packs in a bunch! …
Use this collection of Paul Klee teaching resources and complete Klee Famous Artist Unit lesson plans to teach elementary art class.
Geometric Art
There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different sides they should see the suggestion of a face and they can begin sketching. I'm going to show them how to use the lines to begin the eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, chin etc... When they have a face they like they should go over it with sharpie. Now they can use watercolor to finish the portrait. I am going to emphasize complementary colors which is another way to force them to be more abstract, but also something Picasso did in his paintings. Student Work I passed out a copy of this worksheet to help them think of different ways to make the features.
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw Paul Klee Castle and Sun Art Project Tutorial. Stop by and download yours for free.
