Just in time for summer fun, a brand new tutorial for drawing sea shells. ? View and download Sea Shell PDF tutorial Save Save
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And with the stroke of the clock, and the emptying of a room, a new schedule begins. This time I get to choose more of what my days will look like, in...
Just posted to My PDF Shop, my latest How to Draw ebook. In it you?ll find tutorials on how to draw Amsterdam Buildings, Asian House, Big Ben, Eiffel ...
My artroom turned into a bakery this afternoon. This was a simple idea that the kids just took and ran with. 1. Students mixed even amounts of bisque ...
This metal tooling project needs two circle templates to get started. It’s only taken me a few years to learn to find ready-made ones, as in old...
Here?s a simple landscape tutorial that illustrates the vanishing point perspective. ? View and Vanishing Point Road PDF tutorial
Students used sandwich wrap paper to draw symmetrical kimono shapes today, and then finished with liquid watercolor paint. A tutorial on this has to w...
Eric Carle?s wonderful book ?Mister Seahorse? is perfect for kinders that are studying amazing animals, such as mine in the Los Angeles School Distric...
More help for the ceramic artists, here?s collection #3 from my friend Jenni Ward. This one has all kinds of good pointers on how to make legs that wi...
On my list of new things to do for the next school year is to work more ceramic projects into my curriculum. I experimented a little this spring with ...
I gave this project it?s extra long name to emphasize that you can make a cool pattern based on math. Start with drawing a triangle in the middle. Att...
I have trouble throwing away clean colorful food boxes, and was inspired by the beach theme of these cracker boxes for my art journal class. 1. I made...
Here?s a sample tutorial my friend Jenni Ward has included in her new ?Create with Clay 2″ ebook that was recently added to my PDF shop. This bo...
For Grumpy Cat fans, a page of heads that are waiting for bodies to be drawn, colored or painted in. He does have the most amazing blue eyes, doesn?t ...
Today?s Model Magic students made little people again, but this time with extra large heads. It was fun to bring out the cartoon quality in them, and ...
Studying the art culture from other countries offers a a new perspective on common items such as clothing. 1.Students start by drawing a large T shape...
Here?s one of my favorite projects that is in my friend Jenni Ward?s new ebook, ?Create with Clay 3″. When I think of all the possible variation...
I?m going to try these little worms tomorrow in my last Model Magic class for the year. I have so many pre-K and kinders that I?m trying to keep the p...
My 3rd and 4th graders are finishing their year long art journal books with summer self portraits. They are drawing themselves with reflections of wha...
In honor of Memorial Day, here’s one of my favorite posts from a few years ago. Claire L., a volunteer who works regularly with the seniors, pla...
I had so much fun with my first ATC Line Art template I decided I’d make one more. This time I plan to challenge students to play with scale, as...
Russian architecture is so different than buildings children are used to drawing. The “ice cream” topped towers look like they came straig...
I found this idea for painting vegetables over at Artsonia.com. If anyone would like to take credit for creating it, please let me know. I?ve painted ...
This was a fun project this week that goes in the “keeper” file. I challenged kinders to make curly, zig-zag and curvy ines, and then what...
Students made mini masks (about 7″ tall) in my last metal tooling class, and this 1st grader did an exceptional job. I had students first draw a...
My friend Jenni Ward is both a ceramic teacher and fine artist who knows a thing or two about clay and how to use it wisely. Here is a link to her adv...
Update: Only 5 spots left! Plans are now in place for my 3rd Annual Art Retreat in Hickory Valley, TN this summer. Years ago I met Regina from Whitney...
Jenni Ward, a renowned ceramic artist from Santa Cruz, is my friend who is sharing her projects two new ebooks, Create with Clay 1 and 2. After years ...
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I?m trying a Metal Tooling class after school, and was happy with how this turned out, especially as I had quite a few kinders, along with 1st and 2nd...
This marvelous cat was created in my after school Mini Canvas Class today, by a first grader named Layla. I love the lopsided eye, crazy palatte, and ...
