Welcome! This blog post features a brief description of each principle of design and art projects that explore each principle in more depth. What are the principles of design? The principles of design describe a variety of ways an artist can use the 7 elements of art (line, shape, color, value, form, space, texture) to create visually pleasing compositions. … Read more
Are you a beginning artist looking to build your skills with digital drawing? This step by step tutorial of a digital drawing of a spooky house 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 … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create geometric constellation creature artwork! This mixed media art project helps artists to build skills using the element of art LINE to create geometric SHAPES. Additionally, artists explore how COLOR can be used to create a dark spacey background contrasting with bright, glowing stars! **HEY EDUCATORS! … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to draw a line landscape . This activity helps artists to build skills using the element of art LINE to create a sense of dimensional SPACE. A variety of lines are used to create this composition including STRAIGHT, CURVED, THICK, AND THIN. It’s a great activity … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to draw an op art design. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: SPACE, LINE, & VALUE. Using the principle of design, RHYTHM, the design produces an optical illusion that looks like it is moving into the middle and oddly vibrating! This … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to craft a DIY mini room and challenges the creator to think like an interior designer. The goal is to make the mini room have a sense of UNITY, which is an important principle of design. Unity in art can be achieved when the visual … Read more
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a composition of rainbow ribbons. This activity helps artists to build skills in COLOR THEORY, specifically working with analogous color schemes. Additionally, the composition helps artists to improve their skills of creating blended GRADIENTS, which are gradual transitions of colors into one another. While the … 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
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 skill in painting outer space? Are you looking to put the ‘A’ into STEAM? This step by step tutorial of an outer space landscape is a great activity to develop your skills. This tutorial shows how to create glowing light sources, 3d planets, and more! So … Read more