A good lesson for kindergarteners on up. Reading "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" before drawing is recommended. 1. With a pencil, ask...
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Collage Figure Study
This project makes learning figure proportions fun, while still allowing room for creativity. Many poses are possible when your figure can b...
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Fauve Portraits
The primary mission of Fauve artists in the late 1800's was to work with vibrant and unnatural color. Van Gogh, Gauguin and other artist...
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“You Can Paint Like the Masters” Winners
Give Away Winners Congratulations to RandDSnow and mrspicasso! You each will be sent a copy of this book “You Can Paint Like the Masters” fr...
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Watercolor Buildings
This project takes advantage of the pretty textures that you can create with watercolor and crayon rubbings, but keeps colors from bleeding ...
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Spotted Watercolor Frogs
One of my goals with my after school watercolor class was to show them some fun techniques to create texture in their paintings. I found thi...
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Giant Paper Mache Numbers – Painted
Here’s the follow up to my “Giant Paper Mache Numbers” project, all painted and ready for a culmination ceremony tomorrow. I finished putti...
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Mixed Media Landscape
This is an upscale version of an old idea — using a small color photo as the beginning of a painting. Instead of cutting and gluing a magazi...
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Giant Paper Mache Numbers
When I started my afterschool classes last fall, I all of a sudden was going through Capri Sun and Goldfish boxes like crazy, and they just ...
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Rice Paper Collage Cake
This is the artwork that started it all. I was volunteering in my son’s 2nd grade class and two students went off to a corner to make a birt...
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Butterfly Mural Tutorial
To see a tutorial on how one teacher in Wisconsin used my butterfly mural template to create this beautiful work of art with her students, j...
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Warhol Cat Drawing
Here's a little different take on a cat drawing, one where you can focus on drawing the face, and then kind of generalize a sitting posi...
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Outerspace Watercolor Painting
I found this painting idea over at Artsonia.com , and like how it asks students to think about how close shapes look large, and faraway look...
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Festive Watercolor Bird
Recently I’ve been experimenting with having students start their paintings with watercolors and then adding details later. 1. I demonstrate...
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Father’s Day Stamp Box
Father's Day art projects always seem harder to find for me than Mother's Day, but I like this simple stamp collage box project. 1. ...
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Art Journaling 129
This is a mix and match collage project, with a writing prompt that hopefully sparks some creative thinking. Prep Work: I’ve found that stud...
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‘Ugly’ Paper Mache Monsters
This is a new project I just tried out with my afterschool paper mache class. It’s based on those super thick Capri juice boxes that I’ ve...
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