Colored Pencil Tutorials for Beginners
March 19, 2011
Color pencils, paper and a pencil sharpener are all you need to get started in creating artwork with colored pencils. You can certainly build your supplies as you go, but this list will get you going. If you find that you enjoy this media, you can pay a visit to your local art store for advice on improving your technique and to find out about the many tools they have to help you enhance your artwork.
Q&A
What kind of paper should I use?
Printer paper can work for your first few experimental drawings. If you like it, purchase a pad of student grade drawing paper. The heavier weight will keep the paper from tearing.
What kind of pencils should I buy?
Crayola color pencils work great for kids (and adults too). If you want to spend a little bit more you can try out an artist grade pencil which will most likely give you a richer color.
How do I get started?
The following lessons will help you get down some of the basics. Try them out in order, and then tackle your first project.
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…
Enjoy!
Drawing Terms | Free Printable Word Search Worksheet
December 22, 2009
Drill basic drawing vocabulary with this free printable word search worksheet from MakingArtFun.com. Teach the following basic drawing terms, and then lets your kids circle each of the 12 words/phrases.
COMPOSITION, CONTOUR, EDGE, FORM, HATCHING, LINE, NEGATIVESPACE, PERSPECTIVE, POSITIVESPACE, TEXTURE, VALUE, VANISHINGPOINT
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Also available: Watercolor Terms | Word Search Worksheet
Georgia O’Keeffe | Homeschool Art Lesson Resources
June 3, 2009
Georgia O’Keeffe | Homeschool Art Lesson Resources
Biography I
Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She knew from the time she was a young girl she wanted to be an artist. Her parents encouraged her interest and gave her lessons. She was one of seven children in the family, and the education of their children was important to her parents. Her mother had been educated in the East. The family moved to Virginia, and Georgia took private art lessons for several years. When she was eighteen years old she went to live with her aunt and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Next she returned to her family in Virginia.
Georgia O’Keeffe biography continued on GardenofPraise.com – Educational Resources for Kids
Biography II
American abstract painter born in Wisconsin. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Student’s League in New York, and Colombia Teacher’s College in New York. She was an art teacher before she became a full time artist. She was a leader in the development of the American Modernism Movement.
Georgia O’Keeffe biography continued on KinderArt.com
Georgia O’Keeffe Word Search Worksheet
Print a Georgia O’Keeffe word search worksheet. It’s a great opportunity to review the most important terms in the biography.
Georgia O’Keeffe Word Search Worksheet from Gardenof Praise.com – Educational Resources for Kids
Georgia O’Keeffe Study Guide Worksheet
After you have read the biography, you can follow it up with a 7 question free printable worksheet. Questions include, “How were O’Keeffe’s paintings of flowers different from other’s floral paintings?” and “How did Georgia O’Keeffe’s parents encourage her interest in art?”
Georgia O’Keeffe Study Guide from GardenofPraise.com – Educational Resources for Kids
Georgia O’Keeffe Art Project
Students will create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O’Keeffe as their inspiration.
Abstract Flowers Art Project from KinderArt.com
High and Dry – Georgia O’Keeffe Landscapes
Students will create an art project after the works of Georgia O’Keeffe. Identify elements of desert landscapes depicted in her art and then create a work of art of your very own.
High and Dry from Crayola.com
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Vase-Face | Drawing for Beginners
May 29, 2009
Check out this drawing fun lesson. It’s a vase with two face looking at each other. It’s not only intriguing to look at, there is real science behind the lesson. It explains what may have preventing many people from becoming successful (at least to some degree) at drawing. This is your chance to get what you always wanted – to be an artist!
Optical Illusion Vase | Learn to Draw from MakingArtFun.com
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What’s a Vanishing Point? | Drawing Lesson
May 27, 2009
A vanishing point is a point at which two or more parallel lines meet. In a one-point perspective drawing, it is the point at which the subject of the drawing seems to vanish.
There are several vanishing point/perspective techniques. Deciding which technique to use, will depend on the number of vanishing points the drawing will have.
Linear Perspective – The linear perspective technique should be used in drawings with 1-3 vanishing points.
Curvilinear perspective – The curvilinear perspective technique should be used in drawing 3 dimentional objects on 2 dimentional surfaces.
Reverse perspective – Reverse perspective technique should be used in drawings where the artist intends to place the vanishing points outside the painting to create the illusion that they are out side and in front of the painting.
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The following drawing lessons from MakingArtFun.com are simple and fun. If you can figure out which end of the pencil is the pointy end, they will take you the rest of the way. Each one is carefully planned to help you discover the artist within you. The talents you need are already in you. You just need to bring them out. Read the instructions for each drawing lesson carefully and then give it a try. You are sure to be a better artist and a happier you!
Drawing Lessons from MakingArtFun.com
Lesson 1: Optical Illusion Vase
Lesson 2: Fraggle Monster Vase
Lesson 4: Picasso’s The Butterfly
Lesson 5: Matisse’s La Pompadour
Lesson 7: Does Negative Space Have a Shape?
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Within everyone of us is an artist. Unfortunately, by age ten that artist that was crazy about coloring and drawing pictures becomes frustrated and often gives up. The left brain, what we focus on developing in our school systems, has begun to dominate everything we do. The right brain, the side that is “right” for drawing has given way to the left. The only problem is, the left brain isn’t any good at drawing.
At some point we decide what an eye looks like, or what a nose looks like. That memory is what the left brain relys on to draw. It isn’t interested in what it actually sees. Only what it remembers. The left brain uses a symbol-system developed in childhood for each drawing it creates.
The goal of the following drawing exercises is to allow the right brain an opportunity to emerge. To develop a “shift” in thinking, from the left brain to the right. To leave the symbol system behind and draw what you really see.
10 Drawing Lessons
Lesson 1: Optical Illusion Vase
Lesson 2: Fraggle Monster Vase
Lesson 4: Picasso’s The Butterfly
Lesson 5: Matisse’s La Pompadour
Lesson 7: Does Negative Space Have a Shape?
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by artist and teacher Betty Edwards is one of the most insightful books written on unlocking the artist within you.
Betty Edwards puts forth that the left and right hemispheres of the brain manage information in very different ways. She explains in mental process of drawing, and then provides practical techniques for tapping into the less dominate right brain – the “right” side for drawing.
Basically, the ‘left brain’ is the logical, rational side that uses words and numbers, and develops concepts. In contrast, the right brain perceives and creates.
“The primary goal throughout this book is to transition from left-brain drawing, using a childhood symbol-system, to drawing what you really see. The results of this approach, shown through many student drawings is dramatic.”The magical mystery of drawing ability seems to be, in part at least, an ability to make a shift in brain state to a different mode of seeing/perceiving. When you see in this way in which experienced artists see, then you can draw.”
“This is a marvelously fresh approach to drawing and will make people not only draw better but see better.” Professor Jerome Bruner
“…her application of the brain research findings to drawing conforms well with the available evidence and in many places reinforces and advances the right hemisphere story with new observations.” Professor Roger W. Sperry / California Institute of Technology
This book is a valuable resource for any art teacher.
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Learn to Draw Cars | Free Lesson Plans
April 8, 2009
Drawing cars can be fun. When you break things down to their basic shapes it is easier than ever.
Each of the following car drawing tutorials will take you through 5 steps beginning with a few red lines outlining the basic shapes. The following steps show the previous shapes in black, with new shapes to add in red. You can draw each car from while working through the tutorial in front of your computer or print the lesson and take it to your favorite place to draw.
As you sketch each step, remember to draw lightly. Every line that you make will not be your final line. The first lines will help you define the big shapes. Other lines will help you decide how big, or how small, or how curvy a part of your car should be. When your drawing is finally perfect you will want to erase the lines that helped you get there. If they are light, it will be easy, and your drawing will look great.
Find some paper, a pencil, and maybe a ruler to help with the straight lines, and lets draw!
Learn how to draw these cars in 5 steps:
When your drawing is complete you may want to darken you final lines with a black marker, or add some color with crayons, markers or colored pencils.
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Learn to Draw Dinosaurs | Free Lesson Plans
March 22, 2009
If you think dinosaurs are cool, you will love learning how to draw them. HowStuffWorks.com offers well-planned step-by-step illustrations and directions to get you drawing dozens of these prehistoric creatures.
Drawing Basics
Drawing a dinosaur is easy once you understand a a simple concept. Drawing any object begins by breaking the object down into its basic geometric shapes. Begin by lightly sketching those shapes that will help you draw the body, head, legs and tail. Next, begin to shape these parts of your dinosaur to make them a little more dinosaur-like. The rest is just adding the details.
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