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One-Point Perspective Drawing

One-Point Perspective Drawing

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I’ve tried the perspective city street lesson before, but the students seemed to spend more time measuring lines than anything else. This le...
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Paper Collage House

Paper Collage House

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Kinders spend class time talking about their homes and neighborhoods. This collage project gives them a chance to visualize what their home ...
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“Where Am I?” Art Journal Page

“Where Am I?” Art Journal Page

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This project is possible only because I found a great source for paper crepe tape at Red Bow Studios on Etsy. The many colors and widths yo...
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How to Draw a Fox

How to Draw a Fox

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This fox is made from just a few simple shapes, but when placed on black paper and colored with oil pastels, he (or she!) can look really dr...
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Paper Mache Piggy Bank

Paper Mache Piggy Bank

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These pigs did take a bit of work, but were worth all the effort in the end. SESSION 1: Students covered a 12" balloon with a layers of...
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Nominated for Top 25 Creative Mom Blogs!

Nominated for Top 25 Creative Mom Blogs!

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My blog has been nominated to the Top 25 Creative Mom Blogs of 2012 on Circle of Moms! Their top 25 list honors mom bloggers and will featur...
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Monet Pastel Iris Drawing

Monet Pastel Iris Drawing

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An on-going dilemma I face is how to help students draw new shapes, without giving them too much help. My current solution is to give them p...
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Keith Haring in Chalk and Glue

Keith Haring in Chalk and Glue

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Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. His s...
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Romare Bearden-Style Collage

Romare Bearden-Style Collage

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Many art historians consider Romare Bearden to be one of America’s most important and inventive artists. Bearden loved collage, combining p...
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Watering Can Flowers

Watering Can Flowers

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Instead of drawing your average vase, I tried having my watercolor class draw and paint flowers coming out of a watering can. Just a few cur...
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Make Your Own Color Transfers

Make Your Own Color Transfers

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This really works! I placed some cheap packing tape on a magazine photo and let it sit in warm water for about 5 minutes. The white peels ri...
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Dr. Suess Day Decorations

Dr. Suess Day Decorations

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Our school had a Dr. Suess celebration, and with our modular classroom set up in California, we have a lot of long outdoor halls without muc...
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Dubuffet Cow Drawing

Dubuffet Cow Drawing

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Jean Dubuffet painted “The Cow with a Subtile Nose” in 1954, and I’ve always wanted to see how close I could get to the look with a good ol...
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Support the Arts in Texas

Support the Arts in Texas

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Andrea McLester of Salado, TX has started a project to help schools that are eliminating their arts programs due to a lack of funding. Inste...
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Cityscape Drawing

Cityscape Drawing

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I made my own graph paper for this project by printing a grid of 1/4" lines on a large piece of paper. This eliminates the need for rul...
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How to Draw an Angel Kitty

How to Draw an Angel Kitty

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Even his simplest of grids can helps students fill up an entire paper when drawing. In this case, just four equal sections (by dividing the...
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Symmetrical Jewels

Symmetrical Jewels

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This project offers students a chance to drw and color in a symmetrical fashion. 1. Students make a center dot all four sides of their paper...
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Butterfly Specimen in a Box

Butterfly Specimen in a Box

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I was inspired by a painted butterfly over at Genine’s Art Blog, and simplified the look for kids with Sharpie markers and origami box. 1. I...
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How to Draw a Teddy Bear

How to Draw a Teddy Bear

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One last Valentine idea – a teddy bear holding a heart with message of choice. I loved how this worked out in my drawing class today. 1. Thi...
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Art Journaling 122, Valentine’s Day

Art Journaling 122, Valentine’s Day

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I plan to do this page layout with my afterschool art journal class. It involves layering crumpled tissue paper shapes with watery glue. I l...
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Valentine’s Day Card, FREE Download

Valentine’s Day Card, FREE Download

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To make a super quick Valentine’s Day Card, just click HERE and download my template that you can color, fold and deliver. The letters all ...
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Valentines from Texas

Valentines from Texas

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I’d like to share these two inspiring works of art that were emailed to me last week. Julia from Pearland, Texas wanted to show what her tw...
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Valentine Art Trading Cards

Valentine Art Trading Cards

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I adapted my earlier “Hearts of Many Colors” project, thanks to having some Strathmore Art Trading Cards on hand. They are made to work wi...
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Get Creative with The Lorax

Get Creative with The Lorax

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I am happy to be a part of a blog tour of crafts and activities inspired by Universal Pictures’ Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax movie , which will be ...
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Paper Mache Valentine Heart Box

Paper Mache Valentine Heart Box

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I used modeling clay to first form these Valentine heart boxes. If you can buy the clay at a ceramic supply store, it can be pretty inexpen...
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Symmetrical Valentine Birds

Symmetrical Valentine Birds

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I showed students how to create texture in their watercolor paintings, just by sprinkling a little salt while the paint was still wet. The s...
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Oversized Chalk Self-Portraits

Oversized Chalk Self-Portraits

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The idea of coloring with chalk over dried glue lines is not new to me, but trying it out on really large paper is. I loved how it let stude...
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Jim Dine Shiny Valentine

Jim Dine Shiny Valentine

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Jim Dine, an American Pop artist, used a lot of common images in his art, but is best known for his heart paintings. His creative style is o...
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Homemade Sundress Fashion Show

Homemade Sundress Fashion Show

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For those of you following HOPE Art’s Homemade Sundress Drive , would you like to feel like you were in Haiti when they were delivered last ...
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Hearts & Trees

Hearts & Trees

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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told his students, “Limits are an artist’s best friend.” That’s because they force us to find answers we might ...
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“Cool Shades” Art Journal Page

“Cool Shades” Art Journal Page

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I  like to give students photos of items as a kind of drawing prompt. In this case I was looking for images of sunglasses, and came across ...
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Valentine LOVE Card

Valentine LOVE Card

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I’ve noticed that a lot of students are interested in drawing block letters. This project ties to a contemporary pop artist, and makes a n...
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