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Art Terms | Free Printable Worksheets

Posted in Drawing Lessons MakingArtFun.com
December 21st, 2009 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 two free art terms word search worksheets for the elementary art classroom of homeschool art student. Teach the terms, and then let the students pair up to complete the worksheet.

 

Drawing Terms
12 words/phrases including: COMPOSITION, CONTOUR, EDGE, FORM, HATCHING, LINE, NEGATIVESPACE, PERSPECTIVE, POSITIVESPACE, TEXTURE, VALUE, VANISHINGPOINT

Drawing Terms | Free Word Search Worksheet

 

Watercolor Terms
12 words/phrases including: BLOTTING, BRUSH, COMPOSITION, DRYBRUSH, EASEL, PALLET, PAN, PIGMENT, TEXTURE, VALUE, WASH, WETONWET

Watercolor Terms | Word Search Worksheet

 

This collection of free printable word search worksheets are available for you to print and enjoy in high quality PDF format - the best choice for a clean and crisp copy.


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Meet the Artist | Free Word Search Worksheets

Posted in Artist Worksheets MakingArtFun.com
December 16th, 2009 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!

Our most recent additions to MAF! our collection of free printable word search worksheets for the elementary art classroom of homeschool art student.

Each word search worksheet is not only a great activity for the young art student in their study of a famous artist, but it also builds reading skills. Students must first read and identify the keywords in the artist’s biography, and then search the worksheet for the words/phrases that they felt were important.

Free Word Search Worksheets

Albert Bierstadt | Word Search Worksheet

Alexander Calder | Word Search Worksheet

Mary Cassatt | Word Search Worksheet

Marc Chagall | Word Search Worksheet

Edgar Degas | Word Search Worksheet

Walt Disney | Word Search Worksheet

Albrecht Dürer | Word Search Worksheet

Theodur Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) | Word Search Worksheet

Henri Matisse | Word Search Worksheet

Piet Mondrian | Word Search Worksheet

Grandma Moses | Word Search

Pablo Picasso | Word Search Worksheet

Pierre August Renoir | Word Search Worksheet

Charles M. Schultz | Word Search Worksheet

Georges Seurat | Word Search Worksheet

Jan Vermeer | Word Search Worksheet

Leonardo da Vinci | Word Search Worksheet

 

This collection of free printable word search worksheets are available for you to print and enjoy in high quality PDF format - the best choice for a clean and crisp copy.


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Meet the Artist | Biographies for Kids

Posted in Artist Biographies MakingArtFun.com
November 4th, 2009 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!

Start here, by getting to know a little about the artist, and then enjoy the free lesson resources that will help to instill in children an greater appreciation for art, and the creative process.

Renaissance Era Artists (1495-1600)

Leonardo da Vinci

Albrecht Dürer

 

Baroque Era Artists (1600-1750)

Jan Vermeer

 

Romantic Era Artists (1750-1860)

Albert Bierstadt

 

Impressionist Era Artists (1860-1900)

Mary Cassatt

Edgar Degas

Pierre Auguste Renoir

 

Modern Era Artists (1900-Present)

Painters/Sculptors

Alexander Calder

Marc Chagall

Henri Matisse

Piet Mondrian

Grandma Moses

Pablo Picasso

Georges Seurat

 

Cartoonists

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Charles M. Schultz

Walt Disney


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Learn to Draw | Lessons for Beginners

Posted in Drawing Lessons MakingArtFun.com
November 4th, 2009 by admin


Butterfly | Drawing Lesson 1

There’s an artist in all of us. Unfortunately, by age ten the excitement for coloring and drawing pictures diminishes, you became frustrated and gave up. Our left brain, the one that does all the stuff at school, begins to dominate everything we do. The problem is that right brain, the one that is “right” for drawing has given way to the left, and the left brain isn’t any good at drawing.

The goal of the following drawing lessons is to give the right brain an chance to emerge. To develop a “shift” in thinking, from the left brain to the right. To let the left brain know that its time is over, and begin draw in a way you never have before.

Our free resource site, MakingArtFun.net, features a easy-to-follow drawing lessons that are sure to make you the artist you always wanted to be.

Drawing Contours

Lesson 1: Optical Illusion Vase

Lesson 2: Fraggle Monster Vase

Lesson 3: Picasso’s The Dog

Lesson 4: Picasso’s The Butterfly

Lesson 5: Matisse’s La Pompadour

Lesson 6: Soda Pop Straws

Lesson 7: Does Negative Space Have a Shape?

Lesson 8: Pure Contour Drawing

Lesson 9: Draw a Face

Lesson 10: Draw Johann Sebastian Bach

 

 

Layout

Lesson 1: The Basic Shapes of Everything


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Free Printable Coloring Pages | Art Masterpiece

Posted in Free Coloring Pages MakingArtFun.com
November 4th, 2009 by admin


Our free resource site, MakingArtFun.net, features a variety of creative free resources for elementary art students. Each art masterpiece 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.

The following collection of free printable art masterpiece coloring pages are all available for you to print and enjoy in high quality PDF format – the best choice for a clean and crisp copy.

 

Free Printable Coloring Pages | Art Masterpiece

Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow by Piet Mondrian Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Mondrian Coloring Page

Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

 Three Musicians Coloring Page

Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Matisse Coloring Page 

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by George Seurat Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

 Seurat Coloring Page

Red Nose by Alexander Calder Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Calder Red Nose Coloring Page


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Free Printable Coloring Pages | Bible

Posted in Free Coloring Pages MakingArtFun.com
November 4th, 2009 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.

The following collection of free printable coloring pages are all available for you to print and enjoy in high quality PDF format – the best choice for a clean and crisp copy.

 

Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors from MakingArtFun.com

Joseph Coat of Many Colors Coloring Page

Noah’s Ark from MakingArtFun.com

Noah's Ark

Ten (10) Commandments Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Ten Commandments Coloring Page

Jonah and the Whale from MakingArtFun.com

Jonah and the Whale Coloring Page

David and Goliath from MakingArtFun.com

David and Goliath Coloring Page


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