Creative Art Projects for Busy Teachers

Using the classic double-loading paintbrush technique, and drawing using black paint, children learn how to create these fantastic fairy tale royals of king

Hello! Fall has begun, and students in the art department have been busy. Here are a few shots of the display cases outside of our rooms so you can see what we’ve been up to… Miss Jano…

Image 3 of 13 from gallery of Bancho Church / Tezuka Architects. Photograph by FOTOTECA

Series of easy space mazes for preschool and kindergarten - each space maze pattern has an easy & more detailed version pdf to print

I'm brave, I tried a new lesson again.... I can say as we are completing these clay frames that you have to follow some basic rules...

Well I'm back....had a good break and I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Back to business though, I usually don't do resolutions but I'm going to try hard to get that daily painting practice in as well as continue to create some great art tutorials for you. Sorry I was unable to get the templates to work for the last post however THEY ARE WORKING NOW!! I know Christmas is past but the Snowman and Penguin are still applicable. I love January for one main reason...old calendars, even new ones, I always tend to get a gazillion in the mail. Instead of putting them straight into the recycling bin take a second look. They are a treasure trove for the budding artist. Great for reference photos and for teaching some basic art principles. I have been drawing and painting for over 30 years and I still go back to these exercises again and again. Art like anything that you want to do well requires practice. This usually takes my students by surprise...they often think you are born with it........ While you may be artistically inclined you need to work hard and practice. That is what makes you a better artist. I just find art so much fun it doesn't feel like work. Here is a picture stretching technique. It works well for all grades and abilities as you can easily increase the challenge if need be. Lets get started. Find a picture you like in an old calendar. Trim off the top to get rid of the little hole for hanging. Take some white paper, I'm using 11x 17. You want your paper to be longer than your picture so you can stretch it. Measure the height of the picture and cut your white paper so it is the same height. Turn over your calendar photo and cut the picture into vertical strips. You can use the month grid to help you with this. Try to keep the strips in order or else you will be assembling a puzzle as well. Lay out your strips on the white paper to get a feel for how you are going to stretch it. It helps if you anchor each end of the paper with a strip, put one in the center and then arrange the remaining strips from there. When you have it the way you like glue them down with a glue stick. Using a pencil, sketch in the gaps. Now you can choose what medium you want to use to add color: pastels watercolor pencils tempura pencil crayons I'm using watercolor pencils for this one. The ones shown here are my expensive ones but I found some great sets for the kids at the toy store of all places. They came in packs of 24 and were only $12.00 each. That might still seem expensive but you can get a lot of painting out of these babies. The kids also have greater control with fine detail work. Just remember some guidelines. You want to add water in small amounts and keep cleaning your brush as you go. You also want to let some areas and colors dry a bit before painting others otherwise your painting just mixes all together. If you want to make this more challenging take out some of the strips. For this one I am only using 4 instead of 7. I decided to use tempura for this one. It's amazing what you can come up with. This is student grade tempura on white cartridge paper using 2 brushes, a 3/4" flat and a small round both of which belonged to the kids. A good color study technique for the more advanced artist Give it a try and hold on to those old calendars. I have a few more projects to show you next time. see you soon gail

Varying the lines you use creates a more interesting drawing. This drawing uses straight lines, curved lines, thick lines, thin lines, hatching, cross-hatching, spirals, scribbles and zig-zags. Before reading this post click here for a list of art supplies and resources (and where you can buy them) to create your own wonderful line drawings. Below is the sphere pattern I used in the above video: Printable worksheets by the helpful art teacher. Understanding line, shape and form Here is the pencil sketch of my picture before I added the rhythmic lines. While this pencil sketch is 'good', it is not nearly as engaging as the finished picture. Look at the artwork of these famous illustrators to gain a better understanding of how you can use line in your own artwork: Looking at a picture and noticing the lines the artist used will enable you to copy any drawing accurately. Follow the directions in the worksheet below. This really works! Try this trick with any linear drawing, no matter how complex. You will surprise yourself. Artists use line to express volume Using the worksheet below, try adding different types of lines to transform flat shapes into three-dimensional forms Click on the link below to learn about the work of Carl Krull, an artist who uses line to express volume: http://hifructose.com/2014/10/01/on-view-carl-krulls-seismic-at-v1-gallery/ Drawings by Carl Krull Artists use line to express movement Some examples of illustrations that use lines to express movement by Arthur Rackham This illustration depicts a windy day. How do we know it is windy? Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. -Christina Georgina Rossetti If wind is invisible, as the poem says, how can we draw it? Can you use your knowledge of different types of lines to create a picture that shows a windy day? Here are some stock photographs I found on the Internet of windswept trees to get you started. ALBUM OF SKY REFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHS BY RACHEL WINTEMBERG The album above uses a Flash player. If you are on a mobile device and do not have a Flash player, you can see my album of sky reference photographs by clicking on the link below: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Aliciasmom/slideshow/sky%20reference%20photos Whenever I look at clouds, I am fascinated by the beauty of the sinuous, curving biomorphic lines Here is how some of my 5th and 6th grade students illustrated the wind and made the invisible visible: How would you use clouds to show the wind blowing in your own picture? What type of lines would you use? How did Vincent Van Gogh Depict Movement in his famous painting, Starry Night? What type of lines did he use? How did Katsushika Hokusai use line to express movement?http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/ Free Printable Worksheet From Line And Form by Walter Crane Click on the link below to download this free ebook: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ToJAAAAAYAAJ Practice using line to show movement by looking at this waterfall in slow motion: How would you draw the lines that show the falling water? What sort of lines would you draw to show the water splashing up? How many different types of lines do you see? How can repeating a line many times in a rhythmic pattern increase the feeling of movement in a picture? How can varying the thickness of a line and the distance between rhythmic lines help to express movement? Artists use line to show texture With just a few lines, Arthur Rackham creates the softness of Alice's hair, the bushy disheveled fur of the field mouse and even the folds of fabric on Alice's dress. In the Van Gogh drawings below, you can almost feel the textures of the landscape. Artists use line to depict space. Artists use thicker lines in the foreground and thinner, more delicate lines in the background, to create the illusion of distance in their pictures. Here are some more of Van Gogh's drawings The print below is the work of Jean Millet, Vincent Van Gogh's favorite artist. Notice how the lines in the background are lighter in value, thinner and more delicate, creating the illusion of three dimensional space. Here is a video of my cousin, Hiroko, teaching me about Japanese sumi brush painting. See how she uses line, shape, form,movement, texture and space to create a snake, dragon and octopus, with simple brush strokes. From The Helpful Art Teacher's Sketchbook Using Line To Show Movement Graphic pen on paper by Rachel Wintemberg Watercolor on paper by Rachel Wintemberg Artists use line to create rhythmic designs and patterns. This is particularly useful for designing fabrics or wallpaper. http://www.comunidademoda.com.br/editorial-optical-art-w-magazine-anos-60 If you repeat a line, or create a repeating pattern using a series of lines, your artwork will have a sense of rhythmic movement. STUDENT ART GALLERY Why is it important to vary the line width and add shadows? Look at the last student's artwork (above) and then click on the thumbnail to compare it to a picture of his unfinished work: Varying the line width and adding shadows will make your picture more interesting to look at. To lean more about how artist use line, please click on the link below to read my post rhythmic line designs and patterns. That article contains many photographs, project ideas and printable worksheets to inspire your creativity. http://thehelpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/2012/07/rhythmic-line-designs-and-patterns.html

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Plan these simple and fun Paper bag STEM challenges for kids! Easy STEM activities that use what's around to encourage invention and design.

Texto: Ricardo BOFILL SANT JUST DESVERN, Septiembre 1994 El proyecto del WALDEN 7 fue concebido como una aplicación arquitectónica y constructiva de las ideas del 68. La revolución de las libertades individuales, las distintas formas posible de convivencia entre las personas, donde sólo una de las cuales era la familia tradicional o pequeño burguesa, Texto: Ricardo BOFILL SANT JUST DESVERN, Septiembre 1994 El proyecto del WALDEN 7 fue concebido como una aplicación arquitectónica y constructiva de las ideas del 68. La revolución de las libertades individuales, las distintas formas posible de convivencia entre las personas, donde sólo una de las cuales era la familia tradicional o pequeño burguesa,

Hello all! If you're here from Pinterest, welcome to my blog! I use Instagram as my daily art room journal, so if you enjoy seeing elementary art projects then follow me there! [@artsyblevs] These handouts are my first version of the Notan handout from years ago, but for my full Notan handout listing visit my TpT HERE! In case you don't know... Nōtan is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark as they are placed next to the other in art and imagery. You don't have to use collage to make a notan desing, but I love the process of cutting and flipping the paper. I haven't started this project yet, but it will address positive and negative space, contrast, and symmetry! I'll let you know how it goes this year! Here are the handouts! Enjoy!

Image 22 of 57 from gallery of Planar House / studio mk27. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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The original of this painting is a 6 x5 foot work using acrylic on aluminium. The background is bright, fuchsia pink with some black outlines of several shapes. The bucket stands out as he has used red, turquoise and yellow which clashes next to the plain solid pink. At first the shapes are not very lucid but become clearer to me the more that I look at them. There is a light bulb in the bottom right hand corner, the top of a teapot in the bottom left hand corner. Above it is the back of a sandal. I am not sure what is above that – it could be the front of a shoe. The top right hand corner is the shape of a lace-up shoe. In the painting, each of the objects around the bucket is touching it. The picture studies colour and design. The artist leaves the observer to make a guess of why he put these particular objects together. Craig Martin uses a computer to scan separate images to plan and experiment with them. When he is happy with his layout he then paints the piece. He does the outlines of the design with black tape. He uses 4 inch rollers to make a 5-6 coating of intense, strong colours. Michael-Craig Martin was born in the year 1941 in Dublin but lived in London. He comes from a Catholic family. He studied art in Paris, then at Yale. He was influenced by one of his teachers, Joseph Albers who taught him theories on colour. He is famous for his piece of work called ‘the oak tree’ in 1973 which is a glass of water on a plain shelf with a text saying that it that it was an oak tree. This is called conceptualism. “People call me a conceptual artist as if the idea was all, but actually what interested me is what happened when the idea becomes a thing”. In later works he uses everyday household objects. He uses black line drawings, brightly coloured images and the work is done on canvas usually done with acrylics and uses black tape to make out the lines. In trying to create drawings of objects with no style, he has become famous for this style. I have copied this picture in my book and I found that insuring the objects touched the bucket was harder than I thought it would be. I also realised that there is a lot of thought has gone into the design for example I noticed that the top of the light bulb and the rim of the bucket and the top of the sandal all were the same level. The way that Craig Martin prepares his work his similar to how I am planning my collage in class.

This isn't much different from all the other matter foldables out there, but I figured I'd post it anyhow. The stickers (ie hole reinforcer...

As a creative warm-up to practice making thick, thin and expressive lines, introduce to your sixth or seventh graders in your art rotations with Emotion Portraits. I found this idea on Flicks from one of my favorite art teachers Artsy T. Her. Here’s a link to her Emotions Portraits and you can peruse her site