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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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