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...

Video Atlas of Asia: This clip takes a look at some of China's traditional arts.

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,...

Trying to work through the rumor that the Golden Ratio appears in Botticelli's famous work "The Birth of Venus" The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli Works Cited Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Rainer Hagen. Masterpieces in Detail: What Great...

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"...

Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day. Why I study art.

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....

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...

Learn how to draw with oil pastels and learn about art history! Art supplies delivered, projects inspired by art history.

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...

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?

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...

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon explains the feeling of being alive in 1907.

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'

In this video, the teacher explains how to find the missing side length of a rectangle by dividing its area. Students learn to multiply and divide to calculate the width of the stripes or curtains based on the given area and known side...

For CLAY, I always use Amaco White Art Low Fire Clay. Here is a link to 50 lb. box! https://amzn.to/2TbJb5q For GLAZE, I like Amaco's F Series low fire glazes for SOLID colors: https://amzn.to/2MjVdr4 Or for FUN GLAZE colors, I use...

Donika Kelly reads the Natasha Trethewey poem, "Torna Atrás

You’ve heard his name. You’ve seen the Campbell’s Soup cans. You might know something about The Factory. But perhaps you’ve wondered why Andy Warhol gets so much attention or why his work even matters. What’s the deal with Warhol, and is...

I just got some new paints to play with. I tried out acrylic gouache and traditional gouache and swatched some.

The worksheet used in this demonstration was created by Dawn Pendersen and is available to print here: http://paintedbydawn.com/lesson-docs/art_2006_1point_persp_room.pdf

Discover the joy of MARBLEIZING! Here are the products I recommend: Marbling Kit (this one has alum, colors, and methocel instead of carrageenan) Carrageenan, if you prefer this over methocel Alum HAVE FUN!!! Music by BenSound.com

Using art history for inspiration. Let Kurt Schwitters inspire you to make art!

What is video art? How is it any different from all the other moving pictures that are apparently not-art? Let's explore its history and present.

Golyama Arsenalka mound is a Thracian burial tumulus with a subterranean stone building near the Bulgarian town of Shipka. It dates from the end of 5th century BC. It is composed of a representative facade, a small antechamber and a...