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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.
The Art Assignment
What's a Curator? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Digital Studio's The Art Assignment asks what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today. Can you be a curator of vintage sneakers? Let's talk about it in the comments.
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...
The Art Assignment
How to Sound like you Understand Art
Do you question your ability to talk about art in a coherent way? Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art, even if you've never taken a class or set foot in a museum.
The Art Assignment
Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian | The Art Assignment
We come to you from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate. Sarah Green then...
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"...
Amor Sciendi
A Terminal and a Temple
Grand Central is the great entrance way into New York City, but it's so much cooler than that. It's a Temple to commerce and connection... and a beautiful one.
The Art Assignment
Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
The Guerrilla Girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain! But we must do so in ways unique and memorable. We met up with them in London at Tate Modern's new Tate Exchange space, where the Guerrilla Girls were in residence and...
The Art Assignment
Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly | The Art Assignment
This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
Amor Sciendi
The Iliad: Visualizing the Complexities of War
The Iliad is the greatest war story ever told, and my middle school class tried to figure out why using data analysis.
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.
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...
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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?
Amor Sciendi
Horses of St. Mark's square? or more complicated?
The Horses of St. Mark's Square in Venice have an interesting history. They have been moved around the world and have witnessed some of its great, and terrifying moments.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Relativity and the Unconscious
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon explains the feeling of being alive in 1907.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Clay Coil Bowls- Part one
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...
Amor Sciendi
Prehistoric Cave Art from Font de Gaume Cave - MENA
We discuss mankind's beautiful ability to think abstractly while looking at cave paintings.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Draw a Room in One Point Linear Perspective | Art Lesson
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
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Marbleizing Paper for Beginners!
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
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Learn how to make an art collage
Using art history for inspiration. Let Kurt Schwitters inspire you to make art!
The Art Assignment
The Case for Video 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.