Rainy Day Umbrella
Draw your umbrella Place your non-dominant hand towards the top of our paper making sure it’s spread as wide as you can, and place a dot above each finger with a pencil. Turn your paper upside down, and spread your hand again matching the lower two dots with your thumb and pinky finger. Place […]
Hyacinth Flowers
Draw helper lines Using your fingers as a guide draw guiding lines (“helper lines”) faintly with pencil on your paper. About half way up your paper, lightly draw a helper line across your whole paper. This is your stem finish line. Paint hyacinth stems Using a paint brush and green paint, paint a line starting […]
Coloring Page Lesson with Amanda O’Shaughnessy
Amanda O’Shaughnessy provides this wonderful lesson to create drawings using different colored pencil techniques.
Sunflower
Place coffee filter onto paper using water. Using yellow and blue semi moist tempera cakes, paint on top of the coffee filters creating a ring of yellow and a center of blue. Paint any white paper left with blue paint (or other colors if available). Once dry, remove coffee filters. Add seeds, petals, stems, and […]
Magnificent Maps
Place coffee filters onto the paper using water. Using yellow and blue semi moist tempera cakes, paint on top of the coffee filters creating several variations of green. Paint any white paper left with blue paint. Once dry, remove coffee filters. Add objects such as buildings, roads, trees, and mountains with a pencil. Then outline […]
Contemporary Hands
Place torn up tissue paper on top of Art to Remember paper. Using the brush, add water and allow the tissue paper to bleed onto the paper below. Let the paper below dry before removing the tissue. Draw a hand on the construction paper. The artist may choose to make more than one hand for […]
Colorful Shapes
Draw or trace a big shape in the middle. Then add five lines from the shape to the edge of the page to create sections. Fill each section outside of the shape with designs. Shapes and lines make the best designs. Add oil pastel on the top of the designs. Color with water-based markets on […]
Apple Basket Still Life
Use a pencil to draw the basic shape of the basket. If you are using a basket for observation, refer to its shape as you draw and point out details that the artist could add. Be sure to include a horizontal line to indicate the table. Observe the apples and draw their shapes. Add visible […]
Perspective Apple Farm
Use a pencil to draw the horizon line and the vanishing point at the top of the page. Then, demonstrate how to draw two orthogonal lines to the vanishing point. Finally, create an enclosed rectangle by drawing two parallel lines. Demonstrate how to draw a tree in the foreground, autumn details (such as an apple […]