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Building a Creative Workspace
Make your commitment to creative time each week a reality by assigning a workspace for these activities and investigating the kind of art, music, or craft that inspires.
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Teaching Art at Home
Find out a few ways you can add to your homeschool through learning about and creating Art!
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Learn How To Draw The Easy Way
When learning about the creative process of drawing, students are encouraged to start with careful preparation of their work environment. Learn how to learn drawing!
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Cartoon Cool by Christopher Hart
Learn to draw cartoon characters in the new retro style for comics and animation with Christopher Hart's book: Cartoon Cool - How to Draw New Retro Style Characters.
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The Art of Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale painted some of the most memorable portraits in American history during the period surrounding the revolution, and spawned a family of artists.
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Drawing the Human Figure
The human body is one of the most challenging and rewarding subjects to draw; however, many beginners often find it intimidating and frustrating.
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How to Draw Sea Horses in MS Paint
Paint is a versatile drawing programme. The simple software is suiteable for Art Class when drawing animals and simple subject matter for complex 'paintings.'
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MORE ART BASICS - YES, BUT CAN YOU DRAW?
This is another in a series of articles I am writing here on Suite101 regarding the fundamentals of the visual arts. This time I give you links to great drawings, and also discuss some of the excellent books I have on teaching oneself to draw. Of course, it's always best to take a real live class from a real art instructor, with other live art students, for critiques, if nothing else. Nevertheless, these books are good resources, and very useful even if you do already know how to look and to draw.
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Stencilled Underwater Scenes
Students will learn to scan shapes using stencils. They will be fashioned into an underwater composition in MSPaint.
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Tying Ribbon Through Gift Cards
Students young and old love to make Mother's Day Cards. As a class project brainstorm ideas that help to make cards that are different, original and fun to create.
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Drawing For Dummies
A critque of an excellent drawing book called Drawing For Dummies by Brenda Hoddinott.
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Competitions Win/Win!
Running a competition can be a valuable marketing tool. Let's see how it works at the Suite.
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Following Instructions
Things don't usually go right when we don't pay attention to the directions.
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Sandra Temple, Wildlife Artist and Cartoonist
The creativity and imagination of Australian artist Sandra Temple are astounding. In her artistic career, she has worked in fashion design, jewellery design, illustration, murals, fine art, cartooning and more. Her several comic strips have tickled the funny bones of animal lovers, children and families.
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The Some Of The Bits??
By reclaiming their 'ability to see' artists can strengthen their understanding of 'visual literacy.' This can be done by journaling and a methodical approach to the exploration of techniques, emotive triggers and symbolism. Communal Muraling is made easier and more enjoyable by the development of shared language.
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Creating Avatars for a Competition
The Learning Place, an Australian Education website, is offering a competition where the prize is a work shop by the Creator of Swamp, Gary Clark.
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Family Adventure Holidays
Family Activity Holiday specialist Families Worldwide has child-friendly safaris and other family adventure vacations worldwide, and chance to help a school in Zambia
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Teach ESL Grammar Philosophy
Grammar rules for formally-educated adult ESL students should include sentence-level structures that intimate meaningful connections to significant real-world contexts.
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21st Century Learning Initiative
The 21st Century Learning Initiative is a growing effort to bring together ideas on school reform, constructivist learning theory and modern brain research.
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5 Day Holiday Comic Strip Course
Run your own 5-day community or family holiday cartooning project. The activity encourages participants to learn to draw as they imagine New Years Resolutions together.
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A Review of Dear Mr. Henshaw
Sneak a normally forbidden peek at someone else's mail and journal entries and get acquainted with Leigh Botts, a child struggling with his parents' divorce.
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An Approach To Teaching Drawing
Drawing is a language. This is why it is called Visual Literacy. The process of drawing can be learned and taught in a similar way to any other language.
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Art Institute Versus Art School
What are the benefits of attending an Art Institute over attending a traditional Art College?
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Body, Mind, Spirit... and Creativity
A review of the course Visual Literacy - A Course in Drawing by Jo Murphy. AND an excellent tool to enhance your self-esteem, expand your creativity, and heal on many different levels!
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Choosing a Format
Breakout of the missionary position. Are all of your pictures shot in a horizontal format? It is time to move up to the next level.
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How to Draw Breasts
The female breast is drawn differently depending on shape, environment, and perspective.
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Pablo Picasso , part one
The first of two articles on Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
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Rapunzel's Supermarket by Ursula Kolbe
Encouraging children to explore their world and express their creativity can be an incredibly rewarding experience for both children and their teachers and parents.
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Sweater 101 Book Review
This fabulous book by Cheryl Brunette guides the motivated knitter to make perfectly fitted sweaters for all sizes. It's fantastic for the knitting perfectionist.
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The Use of Symbols in Reiki
A brief foray into the use of traditional and non-traditional symbols in Reiki.
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What Is A Wacom?
What is a Wacom? It is a very handy drawing tool for the computer.
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William Blake – 1757 – 1827
William Blake created his own mythology and more than two hundred years later he still challenges us to open the eyes of our soul - to look and see.
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An Approach To Disc. Based. Art. Ed.
What does Discipline Based Art Education mean? Has the notion changed over the years? Read on and I will try to tease out some ideas and issues about the way individuals learn art.
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Animation Storyboarding
A Storyboard Artist for Warner Bros, Disney, and Nickelodeon shares firsthand experience about what it takes to work in animated Film and Television.
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Animation Storyboarding for Film & TV
A Storyboard Artist for Warner Bros, Disney, and Nickelodeon shares firsthand experience about what it takes to work in animated Film and Television.
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Chris Browne, Creator of Raising Duncan, Artist of Hagar the Horrible
"Happiness is a warm puppy" could be the slogan for "Raising Duncan," a warm and fuzzy comic strip by Chris Browne. He is the talented expert cartoonist who also draws the hilarious and popular Viking comic, "Hagar the Horrible."
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Dealing with Difficult Students
When teachers have to confront a difficult student, they often have more of a problem with their own feelings than with the student whose behaviour is disruptive. This is because the teachers have a sense of failure, of having their expertise rejected. It is important to begin, therefore, with some clarification of what types of behaviour are likely to be disruptive; next to understand what might cause such behaviour, then to generate solutions to the problem
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Finding Residential Resources on the Internet
Finding residential care resources on the Internet is no easy task. But a quick look at one US website demonstrates that there are gems to be found.
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Guy and Brad Gilchrist, Continuing Creators of 'Nancy'
Brothers Guy and Brad Gilchrist create the beloved <i>Nancy</i> comic strip in her distinct, traditional form of humour and drawing, the style of bold lines and bright colours, poking fun with puns and stereotypes. But, Guy and Brad haven’t spent their time on one strip alone. They also have a number of cartooning projects to their credit, including the creation of <i>The Muppets</i> comic strip and books from 1981 to 1986.
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Help! I'm Stuck!
This time of year, a lot of us are feeling down as the awards ceremonies get televised and spring festivals start up with us not among the chosen. Here are a few ways to get moving and past the feelings that we aren't moving or "good enough."
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Italian Renaissance Art Shows
Special exhibitions in the United States and England focus on the vibrant art and culture of Renaissance Italy.
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M.C. Escher: Artist or Artisan?
Mainly focusing on a brief history of his work with snip-it's from his background. Also and exploration of his inspiration, teachings and influences on other artists around the world.
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Top 10 US Art Schools Compared
A look at visiting artists, tuition and famous alumni of the top undergraduate art schools in the United States.
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Top Ten Illustrators
Top ten illustrators of all time as voted and presented at the 2001 Illustrators Conference.
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Creative Therapy: Lifelong Learning
This article is an overview of the concept of lifelong learning as a means of creative therapy. It briefly lists some of the positive aspects of lifelong learning and the attainment of personal goals.
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Creative Therapy: Lifelong Learning
This article is an overview of the concept of lifelong learning as a means of creative therapy. It briefly lists some of the positive aspects of lifelong learning and the attainment of personal goals.
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Michelle Obama Added to Peyton Exhibition
Elizabeth Peyton's oil painting of incoming First Lady Michelle Obama was added to the artist's exhibition on November 5.
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A Child's Home
Traute Klein, one of my fellow Suite 101 editors, fights for peace. She knows all too well the effects of war. When she was a child, her world was shattered by World War II. It didn't matter which side she was on, her family was one of many innocent families who suffered. Read her story and understand why we should join Traute in her fight for peace.
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Matt Dursin of Turbo Comics - Spiderman Meets the Simpsons?
This week I interview Matt Dursin, co-founder of Turbo Comics, and writer for “Secret Monkey” and “Heroes Unlimited”. Matt tells about life as an independent publisher, how his website was mentioned in “Wizard” magazine and much more…
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