Art with sharpies on paper

Last week I pinned a fabulous optical illusion art idea from We Heart Art. She had completed this activity with her fifth graders, and I thought it would make a fantastic first lesson for my students. I tried it out with my oldest daughter last weekend (she's in grade 3), and when she achieved great results, I knew it would be perfect. This is a perfect art lesson for the beginning of the year because it uses only a few materials, has simple directions, and turns out to be an impressive work…

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Mandala drawing style, turned on its head, with great innovative variations. Self taught Indonisian Artist lady_meli_art, has been featured a few times before, here on DesignStack. That is thanks to her prolific imagination, when it comes to differing mandala designs. As I have mentioned in posts past, mandala means circle, therefore many of these drawings would not fall under this classification. As is the case, in so many forms of art, artists take a style and improvise. They bend and…

There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different…

Fish Eye Drawing

Renée 👩🏻‍🎨 | Doodle practice. So relaxing! Highlighter, Sharpie, and Micron. The streaks from the highlighters are hard to see once the doodles are on… | Instagram