A great collaborative kids process art project.
Bring an uplifting touch of nature to your home or office. Check out these colorful mixed media paintings by Oregon artist, Shelli Walters.
In our busy lives, we believe that Eva’s message of creating a quiet place within yourself to allow your creative intuition to flow
Free Jellyfish art tutorial for kids and adults! This stunning jelly can be recreated with a few watercolors and a bit of clear glue. This mixed media art project creates lots of interesting textures and designs that are sure to delight your students.
In 2008, I developed a self-portrait art lesson to help students express both their inner and outer selves, combining drawing, collage, and typography. I recently updated the project to include techniques like mixing skin tones, understanding facial proportions, and depicting diverse hair textures. This refreshed lesson not only enhances students' artistic skills but also encourages self-expression and identity exploration; find the full lesson plan on my website or TpT store.
A school of tissue fish - Print of an original ink & tissue (mixed media) painting. Paper Size: 8.5" x 11" This is for an unframed print only. (8 x 10" white frame featured in photos not included) Printed in our studio on Guemes Island, Washington using a high definition ink process on a 100% cotton fiber acid-free matte paper. Vibrant colors.
Using wood glue and loving the texture and patterns that come out of each unique encaustic piece.
Yoon Ji Seon's embroidered portraits blend fiber and photography. Much of work consists of self-portraits, with varying degrees of emotions, abstraction, and detail. Her "Rag Face" series goes back to 2006, when she started experimenting with these mixed-media pieces.
The kids and I loved doing this project. First of all, I love combining collage with painting and drawing, and I love big bustling cities. Secondly, this project was an opportunity for my students to visually communicate where they, or their families, comes from. Always big points for personalizing art. The New York artist, Elizabeth Rosen, was the inspired for this project. See her work here. Elizabeth Rosen Objectives were: creating a layered cityscape using various collage and book papers; overlapping buildings; variety in text, color and shape; balance and harmony; perspective (smaller and higher in back, bigger and lower at bottom); and creating depth with charcoal sticks, which we smudged with our fingers. We added personalized symbols which represent our home city of choice. We began by painting our sky in an opaque color. We only painted half way down, because we knew that our collage papers would cover the bottom up to middle portion (saving on time and paint is always good!) We then cut out various collage papers in simplified building shapes and were mindful of varying our shapes and sizes of our building, as well as choosing papers with different fonts, coloration and design, so as to achieve a well balanced and dynamic cityscape. We arranged and then glued, starting at the back of the city and moving down, so that those in front overlap those in back. We then drew symbols, signs or other indicators of the city we were representing (a shopping mall in Dubai, the City Hall in Zagreb, building top water tanks, yellow cabs and a bagel shop in New York, a church and clocktower in Prague are a few examples the kids came up with the identify their city). We cut these out and pasted them on our buildings. Lastly, we used soft vine charcoal to run a black line along the edge of all our buildings, and then smudged lightly with our fingers. This gives immediate and stunning depth and 3-dimension to our city. Represented in the below collages are Berlin, Prague, Milano, NYC, Minneapolis, and an invented city. Kids 7-9. Kids 7-9 Represent in the below collages are Dubai, Budapest, New York, an imaginary city, Zagreb and a Chinese city. Kids 7-11
Colorful printed paper collage bird project inspired by artist Clare Youngs. Explore collage, drawing, painting and stamping. Kids will learn and have fun while creating beautiful artwork. Grades K-8
A great collaborative kids process art project.
A blog about art making and art education explorations in a humble art room for adults and kids of all ages.
Use Arrows above to toggle through examples! SUMMARY: We began this lesson by creating a series of oil pastel-patterned papers. Working with distinct warm or cool color schemes, the students c…
Hello friends :) Happy New Year, lol! I can't believe that I haven't blogged in 6 months. Life has been busy I guess, right?! I recently had a lot of fun in the studio making little paper houses. I posted several photos on my Facebook page. The response has been great and I've had several requests for a tutorial, so I wanted to share that with you all. Here it is... Step 1: I took some mop up paper I had saved. It was basically a piece of paper I had taped down to my work space to protect it from paint, sprays, etc. Step 2: I cut out some basic house shapes, no measuring! Just wing it, more fun indeed. Step 3: I cut some windows and doors out of a contrasting color. This helps them to sort of pop forward from the house itself and adds some interest. Glue these down with a glue stick. Step 4: I used a water soluble journaling pen (Pilot G-2 07) to outline the house, roof, windows and door. Step 5: I took a water brush and brushed lightly over the lines I drew. This gave a darker definition and helps pop those doors and windows!! :) Step 6: I added doodles, dots and little design elements to unify colors and shapes. I also added some words and hearts. Don't forget to draw a door knob! Below are some pics of various houses I have made. Hope this has helped fuel your creative juices. Have fun making these, but be warned they are very addictive! :)
When it comes to art, many of us enjoy the many sensual benefits that it has to offer but hesitate to take up any form of it as we feel that it is too tough.
A beautiful art project that's perfect for third grade students. Learn how to make a mixed media jellyfish art painting project using paint and chalk pastel
These vibrant note cards feature the original artwork of Dafne Murillo (Lima, Peru). Dafne was a winner of the 2014 Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Student Contest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DETAILS - One (1) card with envelope (approximately 5.5"x4" folded). - Inside is blank; artist information is on the back. - Original artwork is mixed-media: watercolor, ink, and collage. - Shipped directly from Bow Seat headquarters in Westwood, Mass. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an organization that supports the work of the next generation of ocean caretakers, Bow Seat will not make any profit from our Etsy sales. Instead, we share 100% of the profit (after production costs) with the student artist and our ocean conservation partners. If you would like a chance to have your art sold at Bow Seat's Etsy shop, enter our annual Ocean Awareness Contest. Find out more at bowseat.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORIGINAL ARTIST STATEMENT Due to its mild seaside climate, my country, Peru, is an ideal place for whale sightings. For many people in the coastal region, being able to see a blue or a humpback whale is not a rare occurrence, leading to a lucrative bio-marine tourism industry. Ironically, Peruvian beaches are some of the most polluted in the world. I've been involved in two annual beach-cleaning projects and have been stunned by the countless bottles and plastic bags that spread across the shoreline of Lima alone. This is a factor that inspired my piece. My art project is my version of the "iceberg" metaphor: people can only see the portion above the surface but are oblivious to the portion undersea. I feel this is the case in Peru (as in many other countries); people can appreciate the whales yet fail to realize that by continuing to litter the sea with their plastic waste, they are responsible for the extinction of this cetaceous, which may unknowingly mistake the plastic for food. Therefore in my work I portray a whale emerging from the water - while the portion above the water is a regular painting of the animal, the submerged portion is the outline of the whale made completely out of plastic waste. I used acrylic to paint the upper whale and watercolours for the sea and sky. For the submerged portion I made a collage, pasting real plastic wrappers that I had painted and cut to resemble real waste.
Hello friends! Wow... it's been a while, huh? You may have noticed that my little break from posting extended from a "few weeks off" to a few months off. My explanation? In short, life threw me a curve ball in the form of a serious health scare. I'll have to share the details of that experience in a future post. In the
SOUPS ON!!! I was so excited to try this lesson out with my first graders this year–I absolutely LOVE them!! Especially the mixed media/ 3D aspect of them!!! A big shout out and thanks to La…
Collages are things of joy and fun since they tend to be not just one piece of art but a mix of several. And the best part is that while like other art, it
Today I am going to show 6 ways that I made easy background papers using supplies that you might already have around your craft room!
What is Gesso and How to Use it by Rebecca Parsons for The Graphics Fairy.
This listing is for a high resolution scan of one of my original mixed media torn paper collages of a sunset/sunrise at sea. You will receive for download a .jpg for personal use only. If you'd like to use it for any professional manner, like marketing or business products and the like, please message me and I'd be happy to work out a license :) File is 8.5"tall by 10" wide so you can print it pretty large and retain the details.
A blog about art making and art education explorations in a humble art room for adults and kids of all ages.
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
Today I am teaching my local art group how to make a bird themed canvas shadow box. I thought it would be fun to share the tutorial with you and if you are having a lazy Saturday, maybe you can join in and make your own. If so, leave me a comment and I would love to share it here. I am the worlds worst at remembering to do a step out, but actually remembered to get photos between the stages for you this time. I ruined a beautiful canvas I had made and ripped it apart to reuse for this project, hence the random design on image one. If you have any questions, let me know. 1. Use stencil paste to create some texture or glue paper to canvas front and sides. 2. Tie knots around two brads and insert in cardboard cut slightly smaller than your canvas. 3. Cover cardboard backing with sticky back canvas or scrapbook paper. 4. Using sharp scissors cut your canvas. 5. Test your sections to make sure they roll back nicely. 6. Stamp text behind each section, use a scrap paper to mask each section, rotating the direction as you go (see 7). 8. Spray or paint your canvas as desired. 9. Stamp patterns onto canvas if desired. 10. Using a paintbrush handle, roll sections and add hot glue under very carefully. 11. Tear thin strips of text and adhere to the wood inside of your canvas. 12. Attach wire inside canvas with hot glue. Use rolled text paper to fill in any gaps for support. Finally use hot glue to adhere your elements as desired. My daughter found this egg in our yard and gave it to me. So sweet, she knows her mama well! I thought it would be a great accent to my DIY Nest. I used an old stash of feathers I found at our first place in Texas and some Prima flowers for embellishment. This particular bird is from The Graphics Fairy. I printed her onto cardstock, then adhered her to thin greyboard with Mod Podge and carefully cut her out. This way I won't have to worry about her getting bent easily. The bundle of flowers is discretely glued inside of one of the rolls. Here you can see how the rolled pages blend in with the stamped canvas. I rather like the combo and it was very helpful with attaching the wire. I carefully glued the strings in place so they will stay curved. Here you can see the partial stamping and texture paste detail. In the end I am happy with my sample project, but of course have thought of many other ideas for this type of project. Next time I will glue a canvas wrapped board to the back instead of adhering canvas to cardboard. I think the price will be the same and will make it much easier. I hope you are inspired to give this project a go. I'm sharing with these amazing challenges: Simon Says Stamp: Summer Garden Creative Artiste: Anything Goes A Vintage Journey: Texture or Embossing Paste Rhedd's Creative Spirit: Anything Goes Mixed Media Monthly Challenge: 2nd Anniversary (I chose challenge #23, Dimension) You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
Create beautiful seascapes from upcycled magazines! This tutorial uses ripped and cut magazines as an alternative to paint. This tutorial will take you through the entire process of collaging and constructing the seascapes, it is the handout I give to students who attend my workshops. If using this tutorial for commercial purposes please credit Kirstie Adamson as the designer.
Kids love making art in the style of Andy Warhol. This may be because his style is so recognizable, easy to imitate, and just plain fun! For this project, portraits or images of a single object will work best. You can use whatever supplies you have to create your own art in the style of Andy Warhol.
Our first project this year has been a very progressive, multi step, multi media project that has really evolved as we created! Our first p...
I've been wanting to do this project for ages, ever since I saw it on the blog [email protected]. You can find Natalie's original post here. After many illustration and painting projects under our belt, I wanted to do a paper art project with my kids, and knew this one would be perfect for all ages. And boy, was it fun! Be aware that this project is rather time-consuming, as it requires many steps and is done on a large format. It took us three 90-minute classes, but it worked out well, since we lumped the three main steps into one class each. Day 1: Students chose to do either a cat or a dog (large or small breed). I prepared tracers of cat eyes, dog eyes, cat nose, and a small and large dog nose. I used simple cardstock for this. I don't usually use tracers, but felt they were fitting for this projects since the focus was really on pastel blending, painting for dimension and definition, and collaging, and the tracers really saved us a lot of time and effort in an already lengthy, multi-step project. Students traced their eyes and nose on good watercolor or acrylic paper. Eyes were colored using 3-4 analogous oil pastel colors. Starting at the outer edge of eye ball with the darkest color, students colored a ring of color always coloring in the direction of the pupil. The next lightest color was applied in the same way, but slightly touching the first ring of color in order to have the two colors blend. The third and fourth colors was applied in this same way. This process created slightly blended colors where one color ring transforms into the next, and it really looks like the streaks of iris color. You're best off watching Natalie's eye coloring tutorial here. Once irises were colored, black acrylic paint was used to color in pupils and the outer edge of eyes. Reflection spots were added in white acrylic paint. The dog nose was painted using black acrylic paint with white, to create grays. Cat noses were painted with red with white, to create pink. Highlight spots were added here too. Watch Natalie's nose painting tutorial here. This was all we managed for day 1. Day 2: To hugely save on time and cut down on mess and waste, I had prepared and pre-torn strips of paper is various colors, patterns and textures. I used as many different kinds of paper as possible for maximum interest - atlas paper, book paper, painted paper, printed/stamped paper, deco paper, wrapping paper, graph paper, dotted paper, colored construction paper.... and I had my (biological) kids help me create paper using different mediums (watercolor resist, printing with stamps, painting with stencils, scribbling and drawing, printing with bubble wrap and other found objects, etc). I then tore these up into long strips. You could do this step on a separate day with your students (the kids would love it) but I was pressed for time. So, day 2, students were given a large 50x35cm black paper and were told to collage strips of paper in as many different colors and patterns as possible (mindful of balance and harmony, so perhaps repeating a few colors and patterns here and there). Strips should head towards the center and go slightly beyond the edge of the paper. We used acrylic gel medium for our glue. As always with gel medium, we glued under and over, which really helps to firmly seal our strips. This process took nearly the full 90 minutes of class. Collaged strips Day 3: We glued our eyes and nose onto our collage paper. We had many visuals of dogs and cats at our desks, to helps us visualize the facial order, features, texture and fur of our animals. We noted that with animals (and people), eyes are generally placed only as wide apart as the width of our noses. We glued these down and went over them with glossy acyclic gel medium, which gives our eyes and nose that glossy shimmer. Then it was time for adding definition, dimension and texture, and to make our eyes and nose harmonize with and look like they 'belong' to our collaged background. Using only black and white paint (and creating our own grays), we defined our eyes, created a snout shape and chin, considered dimension and facial structure. Again, we looked to visuals of cats and different dog breeds for inspiration. Cheeks, chins and snouts were pushed forward in that we used more white and light grays here, while eyes were pushed back in that we added more black around the edges. Using feather brushes and other fur-rendering paint brushes (fan brush, wisp brush), we added furry lines and texture around eyes, forehead, along the edges of our snouts, and anywhere we wanted that furry look. To make the eyes less 'startled' and to give our eyes more character, we painted over the upper edge of the iris. This softened the look a bit. We even abandoned brushes and used our fingers to finger paint some definition here and there. Fun! All my ages groups, from age 6-14, really enjoyed this multi-step process.... perhaps without even realizing just how much learning was happening! A real winner of a project! Thanks again to Natalie from Elementaryartfun.blogspot.com for the awesome inspiration! Ages 8-11 Ages 8-14 Ages 6-7
