Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Acrylic Pour Painting for Beginners
Learn how you (or your children!) can make fluid paintings using acrylic paint, floetrol, silicon, and epoxy resin! I will add links to products you need below. HAVE FUN!!! You can use ANY acrylic paint, however thinner is better (the...
Indigo Artbox
Learn How to Draw with Soft Chalk Pastels and to Draw the Human Form
Inspired by Artist Edgar Degas
National Theatre
The Power of Music in Theatre: Connecting and Healing through Song
This video discusses the importance of music in a play and how it has helped the cast come together and heal during the pandemic. The play focuses on the history of sea shanties and the role they played in entertaining sailors during...
Curated Video
The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained
In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world. Foreigners were expelled, Western culture was forbidden, and Entering or leaving Japan was punishable by Death. It would remain that way for over 200 years. It...
The Art Assignment
The Truth of the Tortured Artist
We addressed the myth, and now it's time for the truth of the tortured artist. Some art is born of pain and suffering, and reflects the darkest side of human experience. We like that about it.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Value Shading in Layers: Drawing Exercise and Lesson
This video will show you how to create a drawing that including four or more values and has the illusion of layers!
Amor Sciendi
All Art Is Political: Even Rothko
An analsysis of how art can be used for politics focusing on the art work of Mark Rothko
Amor Sciendi
Algorithm Art: What makes art great? a TOK presentation | AmorSciendi
A work of art produced by an algorithm sold for half a million dollars in October. Here are my thoughts.
Amor Sciendi
The School of Athens II: The Force of Roman Architecture
Part two of the series on Raphael's The School of Athens, located inside the Vatican Museum in Vatican City. We examine the forces required to hold the arches in place, and look at how this enhances the composition.
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
Amor Sciendi
Art is a Process Michelangelos Slave Sculptures
Art is a Process Michelangelos Slave Sculptures
The Art Assignment
Love the Art, Hate the Artist
Can you separate the art from the artist? This one's In honor of all the art you used to love, and it's creators who ruined it by behaving badly. We talk Picasso, Nanette, cats out of bags, and much more.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Make Bubble Prints!
All you need to create an awesome bubble print is water, dish soap, and food coloring! Learn how to print from colorful bubbles to create unique art or a background for your next drawing or painting.
Amor Sciendi
Florentine Baptistery: The Renaissance Begins
The competition that started the Renaissance (which is a thing). This is the story of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi. A note on my mistakes: The doors shown at the end of the video are not the doors Ghiberti made after 1401....
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Create an Acetone Image Transfer From Magazine: Quick Tutorial!
In this video I will teach you how to EASILY create an Acetone Image Transfer From a Magazine, nice and quick! This tutorial will have you making image transfers in no time, using items you have at home. All You need is: 100% acetone...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Create an Abstract Name Design!
Create a work of art that is YOUR NAME...ABSTRACTED!
Curated Video
A Terracotta Archer Brought to Life: My Recreation of This Warrior as a Modern Man
I'm an artist that uses photoshop to bring old images and statues into the modern day. I use photo-compositing and digital drawing techniques to achieve a more photo-realistic appearance. Welcome to the time-lapse creation of my...
Curated Video
Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol...
Curated Video
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
Curated Video
Two Old Men and Restoration of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
It is impossible to know for sure who is depicted in Goya's Black Paintings, but there is evidence to suggest that the man in Two Old Men is Goya himself. Goya was a great admirer of the painter Diego Velázquez and this painting closely...
Indigo Artbox
How to Mix Color and Create 3D Forms with Acrylic Paints
Painting with Acrylics Inspired by Paul Cezanne
Curated Video
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained
Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences. A near fatal bus accident at 18 left Frida crippled and...
Curated Video
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals: Great Art Explained
"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020
Curated Video
Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The...