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Creativity & Michaels Stores

Creativity & Michaels Stores

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Last month, fourteen bloggers and I were invited by Michaels to their 2012 Holiday Showcase in Dallas. We were all in arts and crafts heaven...
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Miro Watercolor Painting

Miro Watercolor Painting

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Joan Miro was a Spanish artist who developed a very whimsical style back in the 1930s. His painting called   “People and Dog in Sun”   is  f...
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Mondrian Watercolor Painting

Mondrian Watercolor Painting

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Piet Mondrian became a master of geometric shapes in abstract art. There are many ways to imitate his style of painting, but I like this one...
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Masking Tape Art Journal Page

Masking Tape Art Journal Page

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When I want my students to make a really colorful and layered page, I keep coming back to crayon rubbings and watercolor paint. It’s still j...
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Klimt Watercolor Tree

Klimt Watercolor Tree

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I was so happy to find this idea at Artsonia from Cedar Creek Elementary . It’s perfect for little ones just figuring out how to draw and pa...
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Scratch Art Peacock

Scratch Art Peacock

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I’m continuing to make projects for my afterschool Scratch Art class and think this peacock will be fun to do. I prefer to give students jus...
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Storm in Haiti Hits Citi Soliel School

Storm in Haiti Hits Citi Soliel School

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If you followed my trip to Haiti this summer, you may have read that all the Project HOPE Art women fell in love with the kids and teacher i...
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Glue & Foil Drawing Tutorial

Glue & Foil Drawing Tutorial

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I was so inspired by a project at “Make It A Wonderful Life” that tried it out today in an afterschool class. It really makes some very ine...
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Draw a Sitting Cat

Draw a Sitting Cat

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I've never had a student say that they didn't want to draw a cat. They make a great subject matter for boys and girls that are just ...
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First Art Journal Project

First Art Journal Project

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I was looking for an easy way to have my young students put their name on their new art journals this afternoon, and was happy to find these...
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Watercolor Dragonfly

Watercolor Dragonfly

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I’ve found that symmetrical images generally make the best introduction to drawing and painting for young students. It also helps to have th...
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Paul Klee Castle Drawing

Paul Klee Castle Drawing

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Paul Klee was one of the great colorists in the history of painting. I developed this project that imitates his abstract  “Castle and Sun”  ...
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Positive / Negative Drawing

Positive / Negative Drawing

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This is a simple exercise that uses positive and negative shapes and lines. 1. Give each student a tall white rectangle, and a black piece o...
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“Things that Are Most” Project

“Things that Are Most” Project

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Recently I decided to revise a creative writing/drawing project from a book titled  “Things that are Most in the World”  by Judi Barrett. I ...
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Marker Line Leaves

Marker Line Leaves

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I find a lot of inspiration at stock art sites like gettyone.com and istock.com. This came from a leaf illustration, which is simpler than i...
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Scratch Art Leaf

Scratch Art Leaf

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I’m preparing for a Scratch Art Drawing class, which calls for a different plan than a regular drawing class. Erasing is not an option, and ...
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Kinder Portfolio Project

Kinder Portfolio Project

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I found this art and book combination over at  Teach Kids Art . “The Dot” book is short and sweet and has a wonderful art message. The simpl...
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CICO Art Book Giveaway Winner

CICO Art Book Giveaway Winner

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 The winner of the four Art Books is... Rescued and Rehabbed who wrote: “As a first year art teacher I could use these in my classroom!!!” C...
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To My California Bay Area Friends...

To My California Bay Area Friends...

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Project HOPE Art’s  Second Annual VooDoo Dinner  Monkeyflower Ranch Sept 22, 2012 3:00pm to sunset Project HOPE Art will honor their donors ...
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First Flower Painting

First Flower Painting

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This project makes for a great introduction to painting. Just simple shapes with a little color mixing. Step-by-step instructions are here.....
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Torn Magazine Duck Collage

Torn Magazine Duck Collage

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Magazine pages are great to collage with. The colors are bright, and they have a built-in shine. My step-by-step instructions for this duck ...
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Me & My Goals Self Portrait

Me & My Goals Self Portrait

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This was inspired by a New Jersey middle school posting you can see  HERE . Drawing just the top face allows a focus on the eyes, and the be...
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Color Wheel for Elementary Students

Color Wheel for Elementary Students

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I’ve found that most color wheels are either too complicated (lots of sections and subsections) or too simple (three overlapping balloons) f...
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Modigliani Style Portrait

Modigliani Style Portrait

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Amedeo Modigliani was a late-century European artist who never lived to see his success, but his paintings are some of my all-time favorit...
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Lichtenstein Style Portraits

Lichtenstein Style Portraits

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Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist who favored old fashioned comic strips as a subject matter. By using a pre-printed pape...
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Draw like Renoir

Draw like Renoir

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Auguste Renoir, a  French Impressionist painter, was famous for his use of  vibrant light and saturated color. This scratch art project is o...
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Layered Paper Weaving

Layered Paper Weaving

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I’ve found the “over and under” concept of weaving is easiest to learn when using strips paper. Yarn gets tangled too easily and takes time ...
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Back to School Composition Books

Back to School Composition Books

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I found all these supplies at my local Staples store. Turns out you can now buy sheets of Duct tape, who knew? 1. Carefully peel one side of...
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    Handpainted “Etchings”
    I found a great website that has lots of FREE art to download, and every picture looks like an old etching. If you…
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    Folk Art Halloween Cat Painting
    Folk art has been traditionally created by those with no official training in the arts. This style really lends itself…
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    Sundresses for Haiti now at 165!
    I’d like to give a special thank you to all the amazing seamstresses who continue to send in homemade sun dresses for…
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    Herd of Animals
    Overlapping shapes create depth in a picture, and creating a herd of animals is a fun way to teach that principal.1. I…
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    This was a big hit, and I think I worked out a…
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    La Boca is a neighborhood, or barrio of the…
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