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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
About Paints: An Excerpt from “How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner”
…PAINT QUALITY
What’s Best for the Beginner?
When you arrive at any art store you may be overwhelmed with the selection of acrylic paints on the shelf, where you will find multiple brands of varying quality.
Which type of paint is best for you?
As a beginner, you can ‘invest’ in highest grade, best quality (most expensive) paints or you can develop a collection of more affordable, lower quality paints.
Consider the pros and cons of each type of paint and make your own decision about what’s right for you…
…My own first collection of paints was a set of dried and crumbling watercolour pucks in a plastic tray and a stiff acrylic-handle brush.
I used them every Saturday morning as I sat in front of the TV watching ‘How to Paint with Oils’.
Each lesson was a struggle as I tried (unsuccessfully) to emulate the professional oils artist on television; my watery paints creating no more than disappointing washed out, wrinkly images on newsprint that looked nothing like the painting on TV.
I did keep at it however, and I think now, how remarkable it would have been to have started with even the lowest grade of today’s acrylic paints…
See more at Teachers Pay Teachers, Amazon or iBooks
Lesson Video #5: Painting Foreground & Background
Lesson Video #5: Painting Foreground & Background
Does it make a difference if you paint the background of a painting before you paint the foreground? What if you paint the foreground first?
Experiment with Foreground & Background, as you watch and paint along with this 4 minute, 20 second video at Teachers Pay Teachers, that encourages you to look carefully at an aspect of painting you may have never before considered.
This Lesson Video presents ideas for homeschoolers, students in grades 7 & up, and teachers who are learning to paint.
But… I Don’t Know How to Paint / Free Video
Watch this FREE video on TPT and see if you might change your mind about what you can and can’t do-
“WE don’t expect ourselves to know how to play a piano without lessons, so why do we expect ourselves to know how to paint when we’ve never learned the basic techniques?
Learning to paint takes time.
You can do this!”
Painting a Colour Wheel VIDEO LESSON #4
Painting a Colour Wheel VIDEO LESSON #4, is a step-by-step lesson, that will show you and your students, how to create your own colour wheel through careful observation and colour-mixing practice.
Use this 8.53 minute video on its own or as support material for the e-books, ‘How to Paint with Acrylics LESSONS for the Absolute Beginner’ and ‘How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner’.
Books and Videos are available at the ART SPACE store at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Get this video lesson and practice blending, with the basic colour theories you learned in ‘How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner”!
Breaking the Rules / Video
A short Video / 1 min 25 sec
down to the business of creating.
Why do You Want to Paint?
AcrylicMuse & TeachersPayTeachers
How to Paint with Acrylics videos and ebooks are now available online at TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS!
Conveniently presented in bite-sized sections, How to Paint with Acrylics lessons are affordable and accessible to teachers and students around the world.