Discover how to build your art foundation skills and express your creativity by learning different art techniques.
Practice creating your own cartoons using any of the handouts below! Each handout has step by step instructions for a scene, animal, object, or character! Sunset Bird Dog Donut Fish Frog Gumball Waterson Koala People Rooster Sonic the Hedgehog Chameleon Elephant Teacup Dandelion Sailboat Eye Lips Cupcake Nose Click here …
Minnie Evans was an African American artist alive from 1892-1987. Her paintings and drawings surround a face with colorful plants and spirals drawn with wax or crayons that represent dreams and hallucinations she had as a child that would also come to her during the day. Use crayons to color …
Camille Claudel is often remembered as Auguste Rodin’s muse, when in fact she was a very talented French sculptor who lived from 1864-1943. Many of her bronze and marble sculptures are housed in the Rodin museum in France. This project is one of the virtual classes exploring women artists, hosted …
“Mother and Child” 1956 The artist did many sculptures of mother and child. She had 3 children with her husband who was a Mexican artist. “Mother and Child” is made from terracotta. She also did work about topics on racial inequality and financial inequality. She moved to Mexico and did …
James Baldwin was a famous artist and civil rights activist. Beauford Delaney met the famous writer and when he was more than 20 years younger. They were both African Americans and sons of southern ministers and they formed a close friendship for the rest of their lives. Delaney gained the …
The following painting is called “The Library” Jacob Lawrence, the artist, made the colors very bright and the books are the colors in the room. They are cheerful and make people want to read them. Jacob was born and raised in Atlantic City. He moved to NYC when he was …
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived from 1907-1954. She began painting at age 18, while recovering from an almost fatal bus accident. She has a relatively small collection of work, many of which are self-portraits. Kahlo painted her own reality, and many of her paintings reflect her struggles …
See Lorna Simpson Art Make art like Lorna Simpson, an African American artist based in New York who uses various mediums to question identity, gender, race and history, with a focus on African American women. Today’s inspiration comes from her recent focus on hair. She uses photographs of African American …
