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  • EXPLORE Art MAKING
    • PAINTING STUDIO >
      • ACRYLIC
      • WATERCOLOR
      • TEMPERA
      • Oil Pastel
      • chalk Pastels
    • CLAY PLAY
    • ANIMATION STUDIO >
      • Action Art + Science
      • Kinetic Art Simple Machines
      • SIGN LANGUAGE
    • BOOKMAKING STUDIO
    • PRINTMAKING STUDIO >
      • MONOPRINTING
      • WOODCUT
    • PAPER STUDIO
    • CONNECT & CREATE
  • BY GRADE
    • Kindergarten Studio >
      • KLEE CASTLES
      • 2D Paper Collage
      • 3D Paper Sculpture
      • ICE CREAM CONES
      • ROCK GARDENS
      • About KINDERGARTEN
    • FIRST GRADE STUDIO >
      • KLEE CATS
      • MIRO LANDSCAPES
      • about GRADE 1
    • SECOND GRADE STUDIO >
      • GRADE 2
    • THIRD GRADE STUDIO >
      • Simple Machines
      • Optical Illusions
      • about GRADE 3
    • FOURTH GRADE STUDIO >
      • SOIL LAYERS
      • RED ROCK LANDSCAPE
      • NARRATIVE ESSAYS >
        • 50 ESSAY TOPICS
      • water cycle
      • tall tales
      • about GRADE 4
    • FIFTH GRADE STUDIO >
      • MATTER
      • CONCRETE POETRY
      • LAKE LANDSCAPES (geology)
      • VENETIAN PAPER MASKS
      • GRADE 5 ROBOTS
      • about GRADE 5
    • SIXTH GRADE STUDIO >
      • ZENTANGLES
      • The Middle Ages Architecture
      • about GRADE 6
  • SMARTSY STUFF & UPDATES
  • Contact Me

art timeline

a visual history

25 really, really cool painting tricks to get you started!


to try out painting, you need:
paint, paper, brush


the 3 main paints in our art studio...

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watercolor

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tempera

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acrylic

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things to think about as you paint...

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color&value

ROYGBV/ Primary/ Secondary/ Warm/ Cool/ Complimentary/ Analogous/ ​Light/ Dark/ Tint/ Shade
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line&edge

Diagonal/ Vertical/ Horizontal/ Wavy/ Curvy/ ZigZag/ Straight/ Hard/Soft
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texture

Actual Texture/ Implied Texture/ Bumpy/ Smooth/ Rough/ Soft/ Hard
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shape/space/form

Geometric/ Organic/ Square/ Circle/ Rectangle/ Triangle/ Positive/ Negative/ Overlapping/ Spaced/ Sphere/ Cube/ Pyramid/ Cylinder

Vincent Van Gogh used TEXTURE in his paintings.
​ 'Starry Night' is a good example of the visual effects created by texture.

here are 12 different ways to add texture to your painting

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Starry Night, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh

(a few) painting styles

realism

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Ville D'Avray, Camille Carot

1870's
​impressionism

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Apple Tree, Claude Monet

1880's post-impressionist/ painterly

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Tree, Paul Cezanne

1890's art nouveau/decorative

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The Tree of Life, 1905, Gustav Klimt

1900's expressionism

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Mulberry Tree, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh

1910's cubism

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The Flowering Tree, 1912, Piet Mondrian

1930's surrealism

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Swans Reflecting Elephants, Salvador Dali

1960's modernist/minimalist

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The Tree, 2003, Ibrahim El-Salahi

Jen Stark/ america/ b. 1983/ paper sculpture

Jen Stark is a California-based paper artist who is celebrated for her use of colorful papers to create hypnotic sculptures that are based on nature, topography and organic forms.
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Jen Stark in her studio

try creating your own paper sculpture in the style of paper artist, jen stark...

This video lesson was created by Blick Art. For more awesome art lessons from Blick, visit HERE

here are some more artists whose famous works have been created using paper as an art medium... 

MATTHER SCHLIAN/ america/ artist/ scientist


Li Hongbo/ china/b.1974

brian detmer

Elsa Mora/ cuba/ b.1971

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Oblivious, c2018, paper & glue Elsa Mora www.elsamora.net

Paper collage

Watch famous collage artist, MarcPaperScissor talk about his process for creating 2-Dimensional paper art

Create your own collage out of flat paper shapes!

Extend your learning & Fun with more activities!



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