2d art ideas

Last week I pinned a fabulous optical illusion art idea from We Heart Art. She had completed this activity with her fifth graders, and I thought it would make a fantastic first lesson for my students. I tried it out with my oldest daughter last weekend (she's in grade 3), and when she achieved great results, I knew it would be perfect. This is a perfect art lesson for the beginning of the year because it uses only a few materials, has simple directions, and turns out to be an impressive work…

Dutch artist Ramon Bruin uses nothing but paper, pen, and cleverly positioned props, to create the illusion of depth. He calls the technique ‘anamorphosis’, but refuses to explain exactly how it's done.

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Canvas painting ideas from Paint Nite

After nearly a decade of teaching secondary students, I've had a lot of time to test out a variety of 2d art projects. Let's face it: as teachers, sometimes we plan and plan and plan. We are so excited to deliver the project, and then... it flops. Students are uninterested and the final products aren't

3D art, some more complex than others. You could try-out the simpler ones and work your way up. Have you heard of the saying: "You have to see it to believe it." We rely on our sensory organs to make sense of the world. People like Hungarian Artist Sándor Vámos prove to us, that they are not as reliable as we might first think. In all of these drawings, our mind is telling us that there is a third dimension, that does not actually exist. Take for example, the incline illustration and the…

I love Op Art and I thought it would be the perfect lesson to teach Art 1's how to use colored pencils. We began by discussing Op Art, M.C. Escher, Victor Vasarely, and Bridget Riley. Then we discu

In this video I show you how to draw 3D Chess Pyramid on paper for kids and adults.Hope you enjoy the video.Thanks for visiting and please subscribe the chan...

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