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!

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.

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.

Our latest edition is Picasso’s Self-Portrait (1907). Happy coloring!

Download Picasso Self-Portrait (1907) | Free Coloring Page

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.

Read more about Pablo Picasso…

Our music resource site, MakingMusicFun.net, features composer biographies and worksheets that introduce children to the great composers in a fun, dynamic way, while helping to instill in children a greater appreciation for music.

Free Coloring Pages | Lesson Idea
Print one of these free coloring pages, grab the crayons, and start the CD. Students stay interested longer if they have an activity.  These coloring pages will be just what you need to keep them focused, while you introduce the music of these celebrated composers.

Johann Sebastian Bach Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Ludwig van Beethoven Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Johannes Brahms Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Franz Joseph Haydn Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Scott Joplin Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Franz Schubert Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net
Richard Wagner Coloring Page from MakingMusicFun.net

Visit MMF! for Hey Kid’s, Meet the Composer biographies.  Each biography includes facts about the composer, and links to more stuff!