Posts Tagged: art
Art is For Everyone
Find Creative Digital Resources for Art Educators with ART SPACE FOR ABSOLUTE ART BEGINNERS, at Teachers Pay Teachers, online.
– Subject Areas include: Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Other (Arts), [How to Paint With Acrylics]
– Suggested Grade Level: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Adult Education, Homeschool
– Instructor Janet Bright is a visual artist with special interest and experience in painting and digital production.
“Art is for everyone. It is an essential contributor to the development of innovative, stimulating, healthy communities…Creating art teaches us to see the world from a new perspective & boosts creativity in all aspects of our lives.”
ART SPACE FOR ABSOLUTE ART BEGINNERS, at Teachers Pay Teachers, online: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Art-Space-For-Absolute-Art-Beginners
Lesson #9: Shadow & Highlight
Check out ” LESSON #9: Shadow & Highlight ” on Teachers Pay Teachers.
LESSON #9: Shadow & Highlight (also known as ‘Painting the Black & White Egg’), shows you how to use shadow and highlight to create depth in your work.
This 8:12 minute video will walk you through the process of carefully observing a subject and translating what you see on to paper.
Includes discussion about the importance of being bold with your paints and illustrates how to transition from dark to lighter colours.
- Teachers Pay Teachers Art Space videos are for the absolute art beginner.
Art Supplies for Acrylic Painting
"What art supplies do I need? Should I use art board, stretched canvas, or paper when learning to paint?"
I hear these questions often, and my answer, clear and simple is, USE THEM ALL!
Beginners in art & painting often surmise that the only way to produce a 'real' piece of art, is to create a masterpiece on canvas. This is verifiably untrue and if you've been led to believe it, it’s time to think again! 
Canadian artist, Emily Carr created her early works on paper bags; Jackson Pollock painted with ashes; early Pompeiian artists painted on plaster in the first century A.D., and fabrics and textiles from thousands of years past, remain today.
These artists created with easily accessible materials that inspired them to create when the urge struck. And we can do the same.
Creativity, experimentation & genius must not be confined by the materials we do- or don't - have. And any moment of inspired genius, whether captured on art board, stretched canvas, or paper, is priceless.
To learn more about the pros and cons of using art board, stretched canvas and paper for your painting projects, check out "How To Paint with Acrylics Handbook for the Absolute Beginner", and see how they're used, with "How to Paint with Acrylics Lessons for the Absolute Beginner". Both books are available through acrylicmuse, on Amazon and at Teachers Pay Teachers.
How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner on AMAZON
On Amazon
Creating art teaches us to focus on details and requires that we pay careful attention to our surroundings. When we create, we see the world from a new perspective and boost creativity in all aspects of our lives.
How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner is an overview of the Absolute Basics you need to start painting today, with Clear Concept Descriptions, Photos, Diagrams, Illustrations, Terms & Definitions and Ideas to help you become the artist you’ve always dreamed you could be.
Read How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner in conjunction with How to Paint with Acrylics LESSONS for the Absolute Beginner, also by J. Bright and get ready to create.
* You can read this book on any device; phone, laptop or tablet. All you need is the Kindle App. Get it here: for Android and here: for Apple
HANDBOOK Table of Contents
1. Welcome
2. There are Painters Who Transform the Sun..
3. Paint Basics
. Acrylic Paints
4. Paint Quality
. What’s Best for the Beginner
. The Value of High Quality Paints
. The Value of Student Quality Paints
5. Paint Brushes
. The Parts of a Brush
. Shapes & Uses
. Bristle & Handle Types
. Brushes for the Beginner
. Caring for Brushes
6. Painting Surfaces
7. Other Supplies for Painting
8. Space Requirements
9. Colour
. Colour from Light
. Colour Pigments
. Organizing Colour
. Relativity of Colour
. Terms & Definitions
10. Layout & Composition
. The Visual Weight of Colour
. The Visual Weight of Objects
. The Rule of Thirds
. Distance & 3-Dimensionality
. Terms & Definitions
Sketches, Doodles and Notes about Nothing, Everything and Art on AMAZON
$1.99 USD on Amazon
Keeping a notebook is vital to the creative process, reinforcing observation, communication and expressive skills on a regular basis.
” Sketches, Doodles and Notes about Nothing, Everything and Art ” is a selection of pages from artist J. Bright’s collection of over 75 notebooks. It is a companion book to “How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner” and “How to Paint with Acrylics LESSONS for the Absolute Beginner” also by J. Bright, due to be published in spring 2016.
An interesting, fun and easy read, the handwritten notes, sketches and doodles in this book will give you ideas about how to get started with a notebook of your own.
* You can read this book on any device; phone, laptop or tablet. All you need is the Kindle App. Get it here: for Android and here: for Apple
Five Ways Making Art Boosts Productivity & Elevates Mood #4 Pleasure
#4 Pleasure
Creating art increases the ‘feel good’ chemical dopamine in your brain
Five Ways Making Art Boosts Productivity & Elevates Mood #3 Freedom
Five Ways Making Art Boosts Productivity & Elevates Mood #2
#2 Awareness
Like meditation, creating art teaches you to focus on details & pay close attention to your environment
Five Ways Making Art Boosts Productivity & Elevates Mood #1
#1 Relaxation
Creating art provides distraction from the everyday & gives you a break from your usual thoughts and worries