Check out the coolest printable ever! Grab one, color it and glue together to make a totally awesome flextangle!
Learn how to create recycled magazine art that looks like a faux ceramic mosaic with paper. Recycle magazines and colored paper!
Create a canvas of color with this popular tissue paper craft! We've created a fun craft pack that combines crayon resist with tissue paper painting art.
Learn how to paint fireworks with acrylic paint and paper rolls. The perfect kids craft for the summer holidays, these fireworks paintings are absolutely gorgeous, and they're SO EASY to make! How to Paint Fireworks with Acrylic Paint Who knew that a cut up paper roll could create such beautiful fireworks?! These firework paintings are so colourful and impressive looking, yet they're incredibly simple to make! We chose seven different colours for our fireworks, but you can make it even easier by choosing three or four of your favourite colours - they'll still look awesome. Try red, white, and blue to
Kids art doesn't require expensive complicated supplies! Create spontaneous simple shape stamp collages from scrap paper and recycled bits.
While you probably normally use colored paper to cut out shapes or make cards, you can also use it to make some really cool drawings.
Cardboard, Construction Paper, Yarn Artwork!: ☆ Let's make art! ☆ Fun and easy project for children and adults. With cardboard, a few other supplies, little time and you too can make a work of art.☆
"Are there any parents who would be interested in working on the class auction project this year?" Me, "YES!!!" I am usually the first one to raise my hand when a teacher asks for help with an art project. I love working with the students on group projects. Last year we made two beautiful quilts (which you can read about here and here) which raised over $1,000 for the school. It was a great project, but it was also a huge time and a bit of a financial investment. This year I was determined to figure out something that was cost-free and didn't take time away from the students -- or my -- work. This project was practically free to make: the students used class supplies (colored pencils and white card stock) and I bought the birch frames from Muse Art+ Design, a local art store. The students were studying ancient cultures and I worked with their dynamic core teacher, Christie King to come up with a project that was in line with what they were learning about. Her students had just finished a mandala project and their pieces were stunning. I recalled an exercise I had done in my foundation year at Otis Parsons where we made a small 1" window to find an interesting design element on a piece of classic architecture. We then redrew it to create a new design (and in the original lesson there was a mess of plaster ice cubes and pigment that I won't go into now...) We asked the students look at their mandalas through a 1 1/2" square "window" and draw the area that inspired them four times. Additionally, Christie asked the students to each create a mini mandala using the same 1 1/2" square and choosing two colors that were next to each other on the color wheel. The students drew during class time and the results were stunning. I worked with Portland artist and professor Sarah Wolf Newlands to finish the pieces. She patiently taught me how to finish the smaller pieces with a wax coating and after I understood how difficult that was we decided the best way to finish the large piece was with an acrylic matte medium. I shared this quote with the students when I presented the project to them: 'The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' Marcel Proust The pieces are up for auction this Friday and will raise money for da Vinci Arts Middle School. I have no doubt they will be well received. Great work everyone!
Here are our Tween + Teen Art Class Highlights from our children's art studio in Charlotte, NC. Projects include collage, watercolor, and monochromatic art.
Here's an absolutely stunning faux stained glass project my junior high students recently finished. These are made from black construction paper and tissue paper. They took about a month or so to finish, due to the intricate nature of all the steps. To start off, I showed students a slideshow about the stained glass in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. I showed them a video of how stained glass is made (the technique hasn't really changed in hundreds of years!). So then students started planning their own design. It could be any subject matter. I demonstrated how to make one using thick black construction paper. The key thing is you don't want the lead lines too this. I told them a minimum of 1 cm thickness, but many made them thinner! This resulted in lots of torn bits that they had to tape together on the back. So here are the basic supplies- mini cutting boards, x-acto knives and parchment paper. Make sure you use good quality and nice pure black construction paper. Tru-ray is the best brand in my experience. Anything less than that doesn't not cut cleanly and is too flimsy. To make it symmetrical, some student folded their paper in half vertically. They drew their design in white pencil crayon. Shading in what needs to be cut out really helps. Include a border as well, to hold the whole thing together. A finished cut piece. Then cut a sheet of parchment paper slightly larger and trace the black paper outline onto it and cut that out. This will be what you glue the tissue paper too. There are two ways to attach the coloured tissue paper. I call the first way kaleidoscope. Using watered-down glue, just collage various ripped colours of tissue onto the parchment paper And voila. Let the tissue paper dry and then glue the black paper on top carefully using white glue. The second method is if students want a specific colour for each section. You basically cut tissue slightly larger than each space and glue stick it on the back. This technique takes a bit longer. Here's some more progress photos: back view I hung these in a long hallway with lots of windows and they looked stunning with the light shining through!
6th grade students finished their collages and they look AMAZING!! We used magazines to create a simple picture. We wanted the colors to be ...
String paint art is SO PRETTY and it's really simple to create! This is such a fun and easy art technique and a great art project for people of all skill levels. You can make pull string art with any kind of acrylic paint and either string or yarn. Pull String Art With Acrylic Paint String paint art using acrylic paint is a great art project for kids, tweens, teens, adults and seniors! I love how bright and bold the acrylic paint looks on the black paper. This is such a pretty art technique - and it's SO EASY! We
Looking for a unique, creative, and gorgeous fall craft? This 3D Paper Art Craft is the perfect choice for older children, teens, and adults looking for some
Tissue paper canvas art is fun to make and quick and easy. It's the perfect effortless art project for your home, or a great teen sleepover project!
Paper. Possibly my favorite material. We do a lot of painting and drawing in the Art Room, but I always like to mix it up once in a while with some collage projects. I feel that paper projects can take us out of our comfort zone and lead us into new and exciting territory. It's more tactile, almost sculptural, and can teach a thing or two about layering, balance, harmony and texture. I've been eyeing the paper collage artwork of artists on Pinterest for ages, (Laura Yager and Karla Schuster, to name a few) and wanting to do a similar project with my adults. After finally getting around to doing my own teacher sample, and assessing a bit the difficulties and challenges of this project, I felt it was time to introduce it to my adult class. This project was completely new and different for my students and pushed them way beyond their comfort zone, but as usual, when pushed to the limit, my adults delivered beautiful work they were super proud of. Teacher Sample. "Freja" Gridding and drawing transfer: To begin, students each brought in a black and white A4 size (printer paper size) portrait photo of their pet. We had cats, dogs, horses and pigs in the mix! Students gridded their portrait photo, and then gridded a large A3 size (roughly 42x30 cm) acrylic paper. They carefully transferred their photo grid by grid with pencil for an accurate drawing of their pet. Gridded "Freja" photo "Freja" drawn using grid method Value analysis: Next, students were told to analyze the different values, and value relationships in their black and white photo. This project is ALL about recognizing the subtle changes in value, their differences and similarities and the relationship of values. Understanding this will allow us to collage papers mimicking these same relationships. For example, the nose might be the darkest value on the animal, and this same value might also be under the ear, or under the collar. To stay true to the value relationships, we might use the same dark collage paper (or one of similar value) to represent these areas on our animal. Similarly, a very light value at the top of the head, on the cheek and on the shoulder might be represented with the same or a similar valued collage paper. Maintaining the value relationships we see in the black and white photo is key to giving our animal its accurate dimension and structure. Tough concept, but my students all got it. Underpainting Underpainting: As always, I like to begin with an undercoat, or underpainting. This allows hints of color to peek through the collage paper bits, and just adds more depth to our painting. I painted the whole paper in ochre, then went over the negative space area around my dog in a dark green. Collaging: The key to this project is in the diversity of papers available. We used old book paper in various stages of yellowing, atlas paper and maps, dictionaries, gridded and graph paper, sheet music, painted paper (we used old painting place mats), stamped and printed paper, plain colored paper, patterned decoupage paper, neutral paper, colorful paper, bright and dark paper. Students chose papers according to their preference but with attention to their value relationships. Some chose to limit their paper types, for better balance and harmony. Then the tearing began! You could start dark to light, light to dark, or section by section. It all works. We tore bit by bit, and pasted as we went using acrylic gel medium and a flat brush. Pieces were pasted side by side and overlapping. Students were asked to consider symmetry (since working with faces, symmetry is important), so if using a patterned blue paper over the left eye, we might use this same paper over the right eye (also good for balance and harmony). Work in progress Finishing touches: Once all values were created using paper, we worked on our small features and details. These were in large part also done with paper, but we also used a fine detail brush to help us get the accurate fine details right in the eyes, mouth and whiskers. Background: Finally, we assessed the colors and textures in our piece and decided which color background we wanted. We already has a preliminary undercoat, and some chose to allow this undercoat to slightly shine through the second coat of background color (good for texture and interest). Others chose a more flat, even and opaque application of a new color. Wow, these were super intense but such a joy. My students loved the ritualistic act of tearing, tearing, tearing. It was truly meditative, yet we still had to remain finely tuned to the smallest details. A perfect balance, I think! And the best part? These have personal significance to my students, since each animal is or was at some point in their lives, their beloved pet (minus the piglet)!
I've been daydreaming of mountains, forests, and epic top-of-the-summit sunsets this week, so I thought I'd share a project that can help you escape winter and head for the hills with me! If your kids
It can be tough to fit art into a busy homeschooling schedule, but these quick and easy art projects make it simple. They're perfect for middle schoolers.
Mountains ho! Turn inexpensive sheets of colorful paper and chalk pastels into an artistic take on your favorite outdoor scene.
Our tween / teen class created these amazing contour flowers using india ink and acrylic. We wanted students to practice working on a very large scale, to create a contour drawing using gestural line work and motion, and to explore how to build up a painting layer by layer. We set up a fresh […]
Middle School Students enjoy doing creative interpretations of their name, and exploring the art of graffiti lettering is always a hit. When I saw a lesson in one of my art teacher Facebook groups …
Weaving paper was one of my favorite crafts to do as a kid. It was really fun to see ordinary paper transformed into a paper weaving masterpiece!
Here's another Pinterest inspired wall art!I created a silhouette of a grizzly bear. Due to it's size it had t
These small, square books “explode” into a series of square and triangular pages when you open them. But… this lesson began as a mystery project! Before they even knew we were making books,…
The idea for this lesson came from an image I saw on Pinterest.. but after doing some investigative work - seems to have originated from the blog Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue and before that from the 1991 book written by Sara Beggs, "The No Nonsense Guide to Teaching Art." For this lesson we began by taking about what symmetry is and the difference between linear symmetry (1 line of symmetry) and radial symmetry (more than 1 line of symmetry). Then we talked about what a sculpture is (a piece of artwork you can see from all sides - it is 3-dimensional) and what a relief "sculpture" is (a piece of artwork that has depth on the surface but is not meant to be seen from all sides). Once students understood the principles behind radial symmetry and sculpture we began creating our very own radial paper relief sculptures! Students started by folding a piece of 12"x12" black construction paper diagonally both ways and vertical and horizontally (to create an 'X' crease and a '+' crease). Making these creases makes creating a radial design SO much easier because it gives you guidelines to work with. Once their papers had been folded and their names written, we sat them aside. Before having students begin folding their colored paper (each piece was cut to 3" x 3") to fill the inside of their design, I demonstrated 4 folds to them to get them started. *Students were allowed to deviate from these folds if they wanted to. To download the handout below, click on the arrow button in the top right corner (this will open it in a new window). You can download from there. My kids absolutely LOVED this project! They are already super into origami, so this project was like heaven to them! :) You might also be interested in checking out my Paper Poinsettia Sculpture lesson which uses the same basic concepts. Also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
What did we do this year in Art? Habitat to Home was our art room theme for 2017-18 We explored a variety of artistic processes, asked questions presented connections and made discoveries- during the journey created some great art too! Sixth Grade program overview Objective for students: to experience a variety of mediums and techniques used for creating art. Expanding art history knowledge, connect to class themes while building art vocabulary. Using art tools, strengthening fine motor skills, support individual development of expression and following a complex series of directions. Day of the Dead Cultural exploration, artists that inspire, how does this tradition connect to North and South American history and World influences? Day of the Dead alters- building on previous knowledge create a small clay “sugar skull” form, collage, sharpie and assemblage to create a 3-D frame to display and create a cohesive design. Form and function Engineering/ Art connection Connecting to classroom Social Studies themes Take a Line for a Walk-Abstract art overview. Building contained organic 2-D line drawings that will become 3-D organic forms. The transformation of a surface through design, color, cutting and construction personal expression, paper collage with patterns, drawing, and 3-D cutting skills, spatial problem solving Engineering/Math/Art connection completed class project completed paper projects Pinch Pot Monsters- artists built clay 3-D models of monsters, starting with basic pinch pot shape. Dried projects were completed with, tempera glazes. Engineering/Art connection Pompeii Volcano relief composition – 2-part project, connects to Ancient History Class Themes. Review of Pompeii Mt. Vesuvius and the structure of volcanoes. Build a volcano shape relief image with tissue paper/glue. Part 2 color with watercolors and oil pastels, showing activity and time of day. Science/History/Art observation and imagination Promotion 6th grade Portraits-personal statement, photography and colorful collage (end of year project)
Need a fun, engaging, last minute lesson for your sub? This NO PREP needed Crumble Paper Abstract Art drawing tutorial is perfect for middle (6-12), high (9-12), homeschool and upper elementary (3-5th) grades. Compatible with students of any art skill level from beginner to intermediate to advanced. Perfect especially for that crazy week before winter, spring or summer break. This product includes: PDF student handout with color images and instructions PDF tutorial for teacher instruction led PPT version of teacher instruction led
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Let’s use tissue paper to explore colour transfer and printmaking. Tissue paper printing project This is a beautiful process art technique that produces a unique effect each time. Colour transfer using tissue paper can be used in several ways to create a variety of designs. Let’s experiment and see which ones we like the […]
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I fell in love with printmaking back in college and my favorite printing process is monotyping- drawing or painting on a smooth non absorbent surface and then transferring it to paper. A monotype produces a completely unique print with a process that is unpredictable, expressive, painterly and totally unlike any other creative process. There are all kinds of tools and supplies for monotypes (acrylic printing plates, the Gelli plate, etc) but really any slick surface will work- even something as simple as a plastic bag! PRINT with plastic bags from Alisa Burke on Vimeo. I like to start by "inking up" a plastic bag with either a brayer or a paint brush. You can can use printing ink, acrylic paint or even fabric paint if printing on fabric surfaces. There are all kinds of ways to get expressive on the surface- you can scratch into the paint with a toothpick, old paint brush or the end of a pencil. You can pull paint away (subtractive method) with a cotton swap or a rag. You can even add paint and brush strokes to the surface. Once you are satisfied its time to print by simply placing the plastic bag onto your surface. I like to roll my brayer over it a couple of times and peel the bag away from the surface. You are left with a print! If you are lucky and there is still enough ink on the bag you are able to get a second print- called a "ghost print". Since I tend to work more messy and abstract I like to start by adding layers of prints on top of each other to create a background full of color and texture. And then I go back into my surface with adding a final layer of pattern (typically flowers or shapes inspired by nature). Interested in learning more about printmaking? I've got a fun new mini class called Print.Make.Play. Check out all the details HERE
Moving Line Project "How to make a line move?"... is the question that third grade students were asked. We discussed vertical, horizontal and wavy lines. Vertical lines seem tall and strong. Horizontal lines in a work of art seem placid or calm. While wavy and diagonal lines show movement. Students in third grade drew diagonal lines across their 8 1/2" X 12" paper and colored inside those lines using various colors of markers. Supplies Needed: One sheet of white construction paper, 9"x12" One sheet of black construction paper, 12"x18" Ruler Pencil and eraser Markers, assorted colors Glue sticks Then students used a ruler as a measurement tool to mark of every 1/2" across their paper. After measuring students were able to connect those lines with the straight edge of the ruler. We numbered using a pencil the sections from 1-24. Reese is working on her measurements. Zander and Sky tracing straight lines using a ruler. Paige is cutting out each vertical line. Even with costumes on, we work hard in art. The lines are starting to move! From straight diagonal lines to curves! "I love how this looks!" she says. Hawkeye colors! Students were then asked to cut on all twenty-three lines working on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Once all lines were cut-out, students were asked to create two piles. In one pile students had their #1-12 strips and the second pile had #13-24. We all started with number 12! Ms. Victoria helping Amanda on her project. There are lots of steps for this project, but they loved the final design We glued number twelve down like a horizontal line across the paper. Then we went backwards, using number 11 next down through number 1. Each strip that was glued down had to have one side overlap and the other side a finger space between. "This is a lot like a puzzle!" they said. Counting backwards...12, 11, 10, 9 and 8. The finished projects showed how straight lines can bend and move by slowly altering their placement on the black paper. One side always overlapped and the other always had a finger width space between showing the black paper underneath. This is the first time I've ever taught this lesson to third grade students. It was challenging with the measurement but the final projects were all unique and beautiful. Luke is carefully adding glue to each strip of numbered paper. Cooper's top half is complete and it looks like a fan! Kevin has a great design through her "Moving Line" project. Grace is laying out her pieces in number order. Ashton, Avery and Angel have the hang of making the lines move. Ours have a "rainbow" pattern! Ms. Victoria helping her 3rd graders. Finished project by a 3rd grader. The lines curve on this piece one direction. Curves are found going both ways in this 3rd grade project. Brooke is using the cool colors in her project. It's like putting a puzzle together to make art! This takes time and patience! A rainbow of color!
String paint art is SO PRETTY and it's really simple to create! This is such a fun and easy art technique and a great art project for people of all skill levels. You can make pull string art with any kind of acrylic paint and either string or yarn. Pull String Art With Acrylic Paint String paint art using acrylic paint is a great art project for kids, tweens, teens, adults and seniors! I love how bright and bold the acrylic paint looks on the black paper. This is such a pretty art technique - and it's SO EASY! We
Here's an absolutely stunning faux stained glass project my junior high students recently finished. These are made from black construction ...
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Create a canvas of color with this popular tissue paper craft! We've created a fun craft pack that combines crayon resist with tissue paper painting art.
