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Project Planner: Pastels
Think beyond just pictures on paper. How are mixed media artists using oil and chalk pastels in their art work? Let's learn how.
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How to Use Oil Pastels
If you love to draw but want to get that look of paint, then oil pastels are the way to go. Here is an overview of how to go from drawing to painting with oil pastels.
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How to Blend Pastel
Here is how to take your chalk pastel paintings to new level using blending techniques.
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Chick’s Doin’ Tricks Easter Poster
Arts and Drama Teachers can create the environment of the theatre through an Easter Poster Project that captures the atmosphere of the stage and creates an Easter gift.
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Crayons: The "Other" Art
Is coloring just for kids? Is coloring with crayons reserved just for coloring books? Nope. Let's explore the use of crayons beyond pre-school activities!
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Mask Making Made Manageable
Masks can be made in one lesson or as an evolving project. Plaster bandages are a good material to use as is papier-mâché and clay. Each is unique!
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Combining Mixed Media with Oil Painting
Oil paintings are not often integrated as mixed media with other art forms because there are not many art mediums that are chemically compatible with oil paints. However, there are many ways to create unique oil paintings by using different materials not of conventional oil painting. In this article I will show you how to do just that from my own painting experiences.
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Adding REAL Depth to Reinforce the Illusion of Depth
The traditional process of oil painting in itself tends to create the illusion of depth through layering. Even further, oil colour can be manipulated to create an illusion of depth through the play between light, color and shadow. It is more of a radical approach that I am referring to in this article that creates more dimension in oil painting by adding <b>real</b> depth to enhance the illusion of depth.
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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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Crafting with Oil Paint Sticks
Oil paint sticks are the perfect art supplies for adding color in new ways. From papercraft to mixed media to stenciling, this versatile medium creates dazzling effect.
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Creative Arts Therapists In School
This is an Introduction to a series of articles describing a day in the life of an Experiential Creative Arts Therapist. To begin I will set the scene.
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ArtCart Art Workshops for Children
As part of its dynamic young people's art program, Newcastle Region Art Gallery is running free art activity workshops for children aged three to eight each weekend.
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Christmas Links
Let's think of other kids when we do our activities this Christmas. This easy, bright, cheerful, affordable activity can be used to bring cheer to the hearts of kids in Hospital.
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Happy Hogmaney!
The Travelsleuth welcomes Hogmaney in Edinburgh and New Year in London. Tired of the January Sales he seeks out some exhibitions and theatre as a welcome alternative to traipsing through the department stores.
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Homeschool Learning Centers
Creatively organizing the home into learning centers will allow the environment to maximize natural learning while helping to store homeschool tools and supplies.
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How Children's Illustrators Draw and Paint Fall
Children will look at how children's illustrators use different art media to illustrate fall-themed picture books, then use the same art materials to create pictures.
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How To Draw and Paint Bats
This lesson plan can be used when making Halloween Decorations or for a spooky theatre sets. It could also be used as a focusing exercise for Biology illustration.
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How to Make a Huge Easter Bouquet
Teach students how to create a large theatrical backdrop that can act as a stage curtain for a school Easter liturgy or classroom pastoral activities.
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Pigments: Light and Dark
How the painting medium a pigment is mixed into affects how light or dark the pigment look and can also determine which pigments are best in that medium.
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Art Materials Are Expensive Aren't They?
A short description of the kinds of materials little readers will want if they are to do the activities talked about in Action Kids Art Activities both the course and the topic.
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Fun Indoor Activities for Children and Families
Having some indoor activities on hand keeps kids occupied on rainy days, and can greatly reduce time spent in front of the television or computer.
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Hand Printing Cloth
A discussion of various methods of printing on cloth by hand.
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Excitement Grows
This is a short article which describes the process of mural painting in stages. You will see examples of drawing styles developed online as the large painting evolves.
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Value Your Work
You will be shown how to make a scrappy journal with the children. This 'scrappy journal' is the space for an ideas generation phase of creation. Through this initial process the kids will experience keeping their work neatly in a folder or Visual Journal and gain an understanding of how to value their ideas. They will be asked to take pride in their work and to sign and date it each time they capture an image so that they can track their progress. This is a very empowering activity!
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