Are you interested in learning the basics of watercolor, though you’d rather not paint fruit?

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 series of free printable watercolor lesson plans. These introductory watercoloring lessons are designed to appeal to the funny side of your brain. Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques as you paint characters and scenes that are sure to make you giggle!

Retro Robot | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

“Make a Wish” Fairy | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

The Little Engine That Could | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Monkey Loves Banana | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Snork Monster | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Whimsical Flight | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

What you’ll need for these watercolor projects:

Watercolor Paint Box
Watercolor sets should provide rich and wonderfully satisfying color. A Reeves or Prang watercolor set offer just this at an economical price.

Watercolor Paper
Watercolor paper is a special paper that’s thick enough to take a soaking and still stay flat. It comes in different textures and weights (thicknesses). A 140lb textured paper is recommended.

Watercolor Brush
Different brushes give different results. A medium-sized (#5) round brush is perfect to get you started.

Watercolor Pallet
Your local art/craft store offers a variety of watercolor pallets if you would like to purchase one. However, a paper plate covered in plastic wrap will work just fine.

Pencil
Art pencils are available in soft and hard leads. However, your #2 school pencil will work just fine.

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.

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.

Free Printable Coloring Pages

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

Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso | Free Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

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

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

Red Nose by Alexander Calder | Free Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Starry, Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh | Free Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

This 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.

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

Noah’s Ark from MakingArtFun.com

Ten (10) Commandments Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Jonah and the Whale from MakingArtFun.com

David and Goliath from MakingArtFun.com

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

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

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