Elementary Art

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This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.

Pan American Art Projects specializes in art of the Americas with the mission to build a bridge between North and South American cultures by presenting and exhibiting artists from both regions.

Great art projects, photos & plans

art projects, photos & plans

In 1994 the gallery followed its founder to Dallas, Texas, in a transition which marked the beginning of Pan American Art Gallery; the inaugural exhibit was a massive 400-piece show of important modernist Cuban art. By the early 2000's the gallery moved to a 4500 square feet exhibition space in the upscale Turtle Creek area of Dallas; the first show there, a comprehensive view of Cuban photography titled "Cuban Photography - Revolutionary to Contemporary" was named one of the ten best shows of the year in America.

Brief biography, web links, lesson plans

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The Teaching Palette: tutorial on navigating Environmental Art Around Google Earth

a few printable templates... like play money, glasses, blank masks ...worth having!

Moma offers several audio descriptions of art. Audio is short and includes music, art image and is great for elementary students.

A French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

Short blurbs explaining the movements, with attractive minimalist posters. Movements include: Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Op Art, Neorealism, Kinetic Art, Abstract Art, Fauvism, De Stijl, Futurism, Abstract Expressionism

There's a mathematical ratio commonly found in nature-the ratio of 1 to 1.618-that has many names. Most often we call it the Golden Section, Golden Ratio, or Golden Mean, but it's also occasionally referred to as the Golden Number, Divine Proportion, Golden Proportion, Fibonacci Number, and Phi. You'll usually find the golden ratio depicted as a single large rectangle formed by a square and another rectangle. What's unique about this is that you can repeat the sequence infinitely and perfectly within each section.

This is cool. A paint tool for twitter users.