Blog posts about art teaching
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to draw a funky, curved hallway with checkerboard walls. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: SPACE, LINE, & VALUE. This composition can be done with a range of art materials, and finalized with creative color choices. To begin, all you will … Read more
Pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), created unique artworks inspired by comics. A great deal of his art features onomatopoeia, which are words that sound the way it sounds. Some examples include ZAP, POP, CLASH, ZING, BOOM, SPLAT, PURR, BUZZ, and many more! His works often used primary colors, bold outlines, and Ben Day dots. This … Read more
Are you a beginning artist looking to deepen your understanding of the proportions of the human face? Check out this blog post below, where you can follow along with a printed worksheet. Click here to print the worksheet. Use a red colored pencil and follow along with the tutorial below to draw lines and make … Read more
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