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Are you a beginning artist looking to build your skills drawing a human face in proportion? This step by step tutorial is a great activity to develop your skills. This tutorial features a step by step guide with photos and written directions. Let’s get started! * Hey educators! Scroll below to purchase this ready-for-class instructional lesson.* What is … Read more
Welcome! Imagine you are an architect who has been hired to design a tiny cottage for a fairy or other little woodland creature to live in? This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to draw a mix ‘n match fairy cottage. It’s very open ended and allows artists to be creative with their … Read more
If art teachers had a quarter for every time they heard a student say, “I’m done. What can I do next?“… we would retire early and comfortably. While it takes a bit of extra work in the beginning, it can be really beneficial throughout the year to have some plans in place to help with … Read more
In a world inundated with a constant flow of visual input and an ever increasing mode of communicating through images, it’s never been more important to be visually literate. What is visual literacy? Visual literacy is the skill of understanding, analyzing, evaluating and creating visual images. From the moment we begin processing visual input from … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a step by step tutorial with photos to hand sew an adorable pop tart plushie. This is a great activity for a beginner who has little/no experience with sewing. Is hand sewing really a life skill we need to learn nowadays? You can buy everything… there are sewing machines…. there … Read more
I recently started doodling these funky organic forms stacking upon one another. The forms were relaxing and calming to draw. I really got lost in this. As an art teacher, I loved all the different art concepts drawing helps to develop. Some of these concepts include: This lesson can be drawn with pencil and then … Read more
Are you a beginning artist looking to build your skills with digital drawing? This step by step tutorial of a pumpkin is a great activity to develop your skills. This tutorial shows how to use layers, opacity, blending, and more! It’s fairly easy, yet produces a really cool result! So let’s make some digital marks… … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a monochromatic winter landscape painting. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: COLOR, SPACE & VALUE. A monochromatic color scheme shows variations of tints, tones and shades of one color. This composition can be done with a range of … Read more
Looking to explore drawing a portrait that uses COLORED LIGHT to create visual interest? This post guides artists through how to draw a gridded portrait that emphasizes the subject’s EYES using colored pencils on black paper to render colored light sources. Additionally, this post shows artists how to use a basic grid system to aid … Read more
Looking to build your skills in drawing portraiture with charcoal? This post guides artists through how to use charcoal to draw a realistic portrait. Additionally, this post shows artists how to use a basic grid system to aid in drawing realistically. * Hey educators! Scroll below to purchase this ready-for-class instructional lesson.* Materials list: *NOTE: As an Amazon … Read more