Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Character Mash-Up
How (and why!) to create a Character Mash-Up! A fun and challenging exercise for ANYONE!
Orkidbox
Monochrome Painting with Blue - Timelapse Watercolor Painting - Moonlight Film Still
I am continuing to explore color and mixing in watercolor. A painting from a film still from 'Moonlight'. MATERIALS - Aqua bee sketchbook (9"x12") - Holbein Watercolor set (30) - Escoda Versatil Travel brushes (size 4 & 8) - Synthetic...
Amor Sciendi
Four Darks on Red: Abstract Expressionism
We discuss the importance of Abstract Expressionist art in the 1950's through Rothko's Four Darks on Red.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Draw Buildings Using Two Point Linear Perspective | Drawing Tutorial
The worksheet used in this demonstration was created by Dawn Pendersen and is available to print here: http://dawnsbrain.com/lesson-docs/art_2006_2point_persp_buildings.pdf It is recommended that you view and practice with the "How to...
Espresso Media
In the Footsteps of Cezanne: Exploring Provence and the Impressionist Movement
This video follows the footsteps of artist Paul Cezanne in his beloved Provence, exploring the landscapes and locations that inspired his famous works. From the iconic mountain of Sainte-Victoire to the limestone quarries of Bibemus,...
The Art Assignment
What this painting tells us about Frida Kahlo
The artist Frida Kahlo is a larger-than-life icon, known for the masterful self-portraits she made during her turbulent life (1907 - 1954). We take a close look at her painting The Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas), and consider what it tells...
Orkidbox
Using Ecoline Watercolor for an Illustration
Hi, I pulled out my set of Ecoline watercolours to try colour mixing and painting a fashion illustration. I like how it turned out. The photo I used comes from a 2007 Dior ad featuring Jessica Stam. - Pentel Aquash water brush - Faber...
Indigo Artbox
Learn to Draw with Soft Pastels Inspired by Edgar Degas
Learn to Draw with Soft Pastels Inspired by Edgar Degas
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Create a Tin Can Lantern
Create your own unique candle holders and lanterns using recycled tin cans, a hammer, and nail! This lesson idea is from my husband, Ryan Thiele, and was fun for our whole family! Optional: Lanterns could be spray painted when finished.
After Skool
Magnum Opus - How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Magnum opus is a latin term that is defined as someone’s greatest life achievement. It is the highest intersection of talent, skill and hard work, when someone reaches their maximum potential at the exact right time in the exact right...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Shading on toned paper (figure)
Quick time lapse tutorials for how to shade and highlight on toned paper. KEEP CREATING! :)
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Top Five Tips for Classroom Teachers
In this video I share my TOP FIVE TIPS FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS that I have gathered after teaching 13 years of Middle School Art. Recommendations: Wireless Doorbell I use and LOVE! Battery for Wireless Doorbell (NECESSARY!) Basic...
Ancient Lights Media
China: Arts
Video Atlas of Asia: This clip takes a look at some of China's traditional arts.
Schooling Online Kids
A Fun Phonics Series: Pat's Perfect Painting
Pat is the most perfect penguin in the North Pole. He practices the piano, does his homework, and plays water polo perfectly. But being perfect is hard, and Pat is secretly unhappy. Pat enters his painting in the school art competition,...
Amor Sciendi
Matisse and Hemingway
There are similarities between the French Artist Henri Matisse and the American author living in Paris Ernest Hemingway. What made their style so popular in the early part of the 20th century? Full Hemingway passage: "Chapter IX"...
The March of Time
1952: AMERICAN ARTISTS
MOT 1952: AMERICAN ARTISTS: VS Max Webber (1881-1961) touching up painting 'Red Poppies' (released in 1953) on easel. WS Stuart Davis (1894-1964) standing in front of modernist painting 'Rapt at Rappaport's', Stuart walking out of frame....
Indigo Artbox
How to Draw with Oil Pastels and Create Perspective
Learn how to draw with oil pastels and learn about art history! Art supplies delivered, projects inspired by art history.
Schooling Online Kids
The Life Stage Series: Mental Development - Jessie’s Rainbow
When Jessie discovers a sad rainbow in her backyard, she is confused to find that it only has three colours! How can she help the rainbow to get his colours back? Join Jessie as she teaches the rainbow how to mix primary colours to make...
Curated Video
Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night: Great Art Explained
Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old. Just seven years later, he would be dead. It was really his last four years where he developed the style we would come to know...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Shetterly - Walt Whitman's Commandments
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life -- from the...
Indigo Artbox
Watercolor, Inspired by Kandinsky!
Watch and learn as we attempt a Kandinksy-esque watercolour. What styles and techniques can you see that are characteristic of Kandinsky? And what do they convey to you?
Orkidbox
Red Sky in Japan | Watercolor Sketchbook Play
A little sketchbook watercolor play. Find a photo and your sketchbook and try things. This photo is from Pinterest with no attribution visible except as a photo of Japan found with the keyword 'landscapes'