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November 6th, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
We’ve just added a new free lesson plan to supplement your study of Michelangelo. A master sculptor, Michelangelo, is famous for his sculpture of David and his Pieta (a sculpture of Jesus after his crucifixion, laying on the lap of his mother Mary). This lesson will introduce kids to sculpture, as they create a subtractive process sculpture with a bar of Ivory soap!
What You Need:
Ivory Soap (Bar)
Butter Knife
Toothpick
Goldfish Soap Sculpture | Lesson
October 24th, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
Need a few ideas to teach your kids about the life and art of French modern artist Henri Matisse. We’ve got ‘em. Start by reading the biography to get acquainted with Henri Matisse, and then click and print these fun and free lesson resources.
Biography
Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis in Northern France. His parents, Emile Matisse and Heloise Gerars, owned a general store where they sold household goods and seed. Henri was their first son. As a young man, Henri traveled to Paris to study law. In 1889 he returned home to work in a law office as a clerk. It was around this time that he had an attack of appendicitis, which required surgery. To make the long recovery more enjoyable his mother gave him a paint box. It was then, at the age of 21, that Matisse discovered painting and decided to become an artist…
Read more on MakingArtFun.com
Matisse Word Search Worksheet
Try a free printable word search worksheet that is actually designed to help your kids read better.
Henri Matisse Word Search on MakingArtFun.com
Color a Matisse Masterpiece
Print and color a free coloring page of Matisse’s Woman with a Hat (1905).
Woman with a Hat from MakingArtFun.com
Draw a Matisse Masterpiece
Add a drawing project to your lesson plans. This line drawing is easy to recreate, and a great way to get connected to the artist. Don’t worry… it’s easy. Just click, read the directions, and draw.
La Pompadour: Drawing Lesson on MakingArtFun.com
Art Masterpiece Cookie
Try making an art Masterpiece cookie. Art has never been this delicious!
Henri Matisse | Cookie Masterpiece lesson on MakingArtFun.com
Materials
4″ Sugar Cookies
Cookie Frosting
Food Coloring
Popsicle Sticks
Meet the Artist Job Application
This free printable artist worksheet is a fact-based worksheet in the form of a job application that your students can fill out for the artist of your choice. It’s a great alternative the a study guide.
“Meet the Artist” Job Application | Worksheet
Desktop Wallpaper
Download a desktop wallpaper for Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Hat from MakingArtFun.com. Every trip to the compuer will be like a visit to the art museum.
Woman with a Hat Desktop Wallpaper from MakingArtFun.com
October 22nd, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
Painting the masterworks of our great artists is an awesome way to introduce kids to, and help them connected with art and the artist that create it. The following projects are easy and rewarding. We hope you enjoy these resources.
Here a list of the watercolor supplies you will need to get started:
Watercolor Paints
Invest in an inexpensive student watercolor set – either tubes or pans.
Watercolor Paint Brush
Your watercolor set may come with a paint brush. It not, a no.8 round brush is a great one to get started with. Student brushes are available in natural hair, synthetic or a blend or both. Natural hair brush are always the better choice because the hold more water.
Watercolor Paper
Watercolor paper is heavier than computer paper so that it can take a soaking. You can buy inexpensive paper, though make sure it’s 90lb. or 140lb. weight, so that it will stay flat when it gets wet.
Watercolor Pallet
A paper plate covered with plastic wrap, or a white plate, will provide a wonderful first pallet on which to mix your colors.
Watercolor Projects
Each of the following watercolor projects are ideal for elementary/jr. high art students, or anyone want to learn a few basic skills.
Degas Ballerina
This art project introduces the art of Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Following a step-by-step approach, students will learn basic watercolor painting techniques as they paint an excerpt from his “Ballerina.” The lesson provides kids with an opportunity to experiment with dry brush technique.
The Singing Fish (Miro)
This art project introduces the art of Joan Miro (1893 -1983). Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques as you paint an excerpt from his “The Singing Fish.”
Sunflower (Van Gogh)
This art project introduces the art of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques as you paint an excerpt from his “Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers.”
The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Vermeer)
This art project introduces the art of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675). Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll apply basic watercolor painting techniques, including wet-on-dry wash and glazing, as you paint his masterpiece “The Girl with the Pearl Earring.”
Three Musicians (Picasso)
This art project introduces the art of Spanish Modern artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques as you paint an excerpt from his cubist masterpiece “Three Musicians.”
Beasts and the Sea (Matisse)
This art project introduces the art of Henry Matisse. Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques, including how to create a flat wash, as you paint an excerpt from his “Beasts and the Sea.”
October 22nd, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
Want to give your kids the opportunity to discover their inner Picasso? It all begins with connecting kids with great resources that engage them and teach them what they need to know to succeed.
Here’s five fantastic Picasso-centered art projects/activities from our site and others, that are sure to excite your young artist. Start be introducing your child to Picasso with a biography about his life and work. Then dive into the activities.
Hey Kids, Meet Pablo Picasso – Biography for Kids
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25,1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco, an art teacher, and Maria Picasso y Lopez. At an early age Pablo showed an interest in drawing. His first words were “piz, piz”, which is short for “lapiz”, the Spanish word for pencil…
Paint Your Own Picasso – Interactive Activity
Paint Your Own Picasso is an online activity that provides kids with cubist facial features that they can drag to the pre-drawn face, and then arrange until it looks perfect. When your masterpiece is complete you can print it.
Mr. Picasso Head – Interactive Activity
Mr. Picasso Head is another online resource for kids, providing them with graphics to drag, drop, and arrange their own cubist-style portrait. Change the colors, or resize, flip or rotate the features. When your masterpiece is complete, sign it, and add it to their Gallery.
Picasso Art Masterpiece Cookies
Art has never been this delicious! This project gives kids a chance to turn a sugar cookie in cubist style art.
Materials:
4″ Sugar Cookies
Frosting
Food Coloring
Popsicle Sticks
Icing Bag
Create a Cubist Montage
This art project helps kids to understand that cubist art works show the same thing from several sides at the same time. Kids will create a cubist work with magazine clippings, assembling and gluing eyes, hair, noses and lips from multiple angles.
Materials:
Photographs of People
Scissors
Glue
Paper for Base of the Collage
Colored Pencils, Markers, or Paints
Acrylic Varnish
Paintbrush
Picasso Self Portrait | Coloring Page
Make it simple. Grab you crayons and print this free printable coloring page of Picasso’s self portrait. Encourage your kids to observe the colors and brush patterns in this work, and reproduce it as best they are able.
Picasso’s Three Musician’s Watercolor Project
This watercolor project is a printable step-by-step introduction to the art of Pablo Picasso. It offers basic watercolor painting techniques, while guiding students in the painting of the harlequin musician from Picasso’s Three Musicians of 1905.
Materials:
Watercolor Paints
Watercolor Paper
Watercolor Paint Brush
Pencil
Cup of Water
Paper Towel (to blot those unexpected mistakes)
Have fun!
October 22nd, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
Need a few ideas for an art lesson on French modern artist Georges Seurat? Here’s a guide to few few of our resources, as well as links to one of our favorite educational resource sites – GardenofPraise.com.
Biography
Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. His father Antoine Chrysostom Seurat was a native to Champagne, and his mother Ernestine Faivre was a Parisian. He also had a brother and a sister, Emile and Marie-Berthe.
Read more on MakingArtFun.com
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Jigsaw Puzzle
Try working an online jigsaw puzzle of George’s Seurat’s masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It’s a fun way to get kids more familiar with great works of art. The virtual puzzle pieces can be rotated to provide a greater challenge for older students.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Jigsaw Puzzle from GardenofPraise.com
Georges Seurat Coloring Page
Grab your crayons and color George Seurat’s Famous pointillist masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884).
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com
Georges Seurat Word Search Worksheet
Print and solve a Georges Seurat free printable word search worksheet. It’s a fun way to review the most important stuff about Seurat’s life and work.
George Seurat Word Search Worksheet from MakingArtFun.com
Georges Seurat Study Guide Worksheet
After you have read the biography on GardenofPraise.com, follow it with a 7 question free printable worksheet. Questions include, “What island had a great influence on Seurat’s work?” and “What pet does the woman with the black umbrella have on her leash?”
Georges Seurat Study Guide from GardenofPraise.com
October 21st, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
We’ve just added five artist biographies, free printable worksheets and a new art project. We hope you will learn from and enjoy what we have created for you.
Meet the Artist Biographies
Hey Kids, Meet Hieronymus Bosch
Hey Kids, Meet Michangelo
Hey Kids, Meet Wassily Kandinsky
Hey Kids, Meet Paul Klee
Hey Kids, Meet Claude Monet
Printable Meet the Artist Biographies
Hey Kids, Meet Hieronymus Bosch
Hey Kids, Meet Michangelo
Hey Kids, Meet Wassily Kandinsky
Hey Kids, Meet Paul Klee
Hey Kids, Meet Claude Monet
Word Search Worksheets
Build reading skills with our free printable artist word search worksheets. Let your students know how many words there are to find, and then ask them to complete the word search by identifying and circling the keywords found in the biography.
Hieronymus Bosch | Word Search
Michelangelo | Word Search
Wassily Kandinsky | Word Search
Paul Klee | Word Search
Claude Monet | Word Search
Art Project for Kids
Students will be introduced to the art of Renaissance artist Michelangelo, and will recreate an excerpt of his Creation of Adam from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and learn about subtractive process sculpting as they carve a goldfish from a bar of Ivory soap.
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam | Lesson
Goldfish Soap Sculpture (Michelangelo) | Lesson
Have Fun!
March 18th, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!
I’ve just added three colored pencil lessons that help kids build basic skills.
Colored Pencil Lessons
10 Tippy Top Colored Pencils Tips for Beginners
Here’s a few basic colored pencil techniques that will help you to dazzle your friends and family (and yourself) right from the beginning. They will help you to make your colored pencil drawings vibrant and beautiful…
Colored Pencil Techniques for Beginners
Now that you have developed a few basic drawing skills, let’s try a lesson on colored pencil technique. This lesson will teach you the basic stuff about how to color your flowers, bunnies, or pickles with colored pencils in an artsy sort of way. As you read, try each one of these techniques on a piece of drawing paper…
5 Tips for Blending Colored Pencils
Learning how to blend your colored pencil strokes can add a wonderful richness to your colored pencil art projects. Each of these blending techniques are easy to learn, and will create wonderful effects…
Have Fun!
February 5th, 2011 by admin
Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, which features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas, has just created a a new worksheet!
“Meet the Composer” Job Application
We have just added a“Meet the Artist” Job Application – a creative fact-based worksheet. Print this artist job application worksheet and then head to the “Meet the Artist” Biographies to complete the application for the artist of your choice.
Download Meet the Artist” Job Application | Free Worksheet
November 1st, 2010 by admin
Our free resource site, MakingArtFun.net, features a variety of creative free resources for elementary art students. Each coloring page that finds it’s way on this site meets a very high standard – it must be as good or better than anything available – not just on the web – but anywhere.
Here’s another addition to our nursery rhyme coloring page collection – “Old King Cole”.
Old King Cole | Free Coloring Page
Find more free nursery rhyme coloring pages in the Nursery Rhyme Coloring Pages Index on the MakingArtFun.com website.
October 28th, 2010 by admin
Our free resource site, MakingArtFun.net, features a variety of creative free resources for elementary art students. Each coloring page that finds it’s way on this site meets a very high standard – it must be as good or better than anything available – not just on the web – but anywhere.
Our latest edition is “Santa with Presents”. Ho! Ho! Ho! and Merry Christmas!
Santa with Presents | Free Coloring Page
Find more free Christmas coloring pages in the Holiday Coloring Pages Index on the MakingArtFun.com website.
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