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For a simple animal in motion, here?s a tutorial on how to draw a running rabbit. ? View and download Running Rabbit tutorial
More possibilities for coffee filters and liquid watercolor paints, this time as an ode to artist Keith Haring. PREP: Use an old steam iron to flatten...
I love cartoon characters with giant heads as it makes them instantly cute, and also frees young artists to not worry about proportions. There?ll be p...
I?ve started a drive to help my friend Winter, who has for years run a free school for some of the poorest kids in Haiti. I met him in my travels year...
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I’ve tried many projects for new kinders over the past ten years, and this is now my favorite. It?s simply drawing stars with oil pastels and th...
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My September newsletter is going out next week, so sign up now if you want to get my latest drawing tutorial. This Killer Whale drawing is good for st...
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of color. After losing the ability to paint late in life, he explored and mastered the art of pap...
This has got to be one of my favorite colored murals, sent in by art teacher Stephanie Schobel. Her students at King Kamehameha III School in Hawaii m...
Here is my Hanging Bat tutorial, remade in my pdf format. I suspect some readers out there might already have Halloween on their mind. ? View and down...
I keep looking for new ways to introduce students to weaving, and this one is working our pretty well for my students this week. Paper strips are wove...
Yesterday my afterschool students had fun making this colored stick banner. I think a lot was due to the brush Sharpie markers, and the punched holes ...
Here?s another idea for a holiday art fundraiser. The winter theme satisfies all the parents that prefer seasonal art, and I like that it can easily b...
Here are the supplies I ended up using to make today’s air dry clay owls. I switched from plastic wrap to sheets of aluminum foil after I envisi...
How about making it ?Opposite Day? in art class, where scribbling is not only allowed, but encouraged? This lesson could tie in Jasper Johns for his t...
I?ve been having fun experimenting with black glue painting on acetate. What I have learned so far is that black acrylic mixed with white glue (roughl...
I?m determined to find a way to make simple boxes out of craft sticks, but not in the traditional flat stacking way. That uses way too many sticks. I ...
This little bird may not look like it, but he represents about a year of trial and error with afterschool clay and playdough classes. I knew there was...
If you?ve ever painted on a flat coffee filter, you?ll know how fun it is to watch the color seep and spread and grow. That’s what got me starte...
My experiment in diagramming art instructions. Maybe visual projects need visual instructions? It would be interesting to truly test different approac...
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I love these little popsicle stick boxes, especially now that I figured out how to make a fancy lid for them. Students need to build them in a spiral ...
Let?s face it, Volkswagon Beetle cars are cute. Here?s how I would draw one, if someone asked. ? View and download VW Beetle Car Tutorial
I made this owl project today for my very young after school artists (mostly kinder and 1st graders). They did really well, drawing owls of all shapes...
George Rodrigue (1944 ? 2013) is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early 1990s. I love that he pain...
I?m starting a new air dry clay class tomorrow, and plan to begin with simple coil or ball shaped bowls. They will be rolled and pressed to a baby foo...
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I recently received this lovely collection of art in my email, and when I learned that Vivaan, the artist was only 4 years old, I was amazed. I know l...
Kinders are learning about trees in my school, so I created this lesson that lets them paint one, roots and all. PREP: Draw and cut a trunk stencil as...
I made this tutorial in hopes that students could break some of the habits I see often regarding trees. All they need to do is make the branches skinn...
Here?s one thing I know … kids love to work with clay, yet ceramic clay requires resources that are not always available. There is an alternativ...
If you paint a wash of India ink over an oil pastel drawing you get a very dramatic result. Shown are the brands that worked well together for this pa...
Well, maybe not glass exactly, but painted acetate doesn?t quite have the same ring to it. At any rate, I did have fun today playing around wit...
