Category: Drawing
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How to Use Colored Paper as Your Drawing Tool
It’s no secret that card stock is one of my favorite art supplies in all the land. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever bought a regular pad of colored paper for my kids. Hate the stuff. It’s flimsy, unsaturated, and the color choices have always been less than inspiring. While you probably normally use…
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How to Draw a Labyrinth and What to do With it
Apparently I’m a little obsessed with the visual mysteries of Ancient Greece lately. As I was researching for The Golden Ratio in Art post, I stumbled upon some images of labyrinths and I haven’t been able to stop drawing them since. Do you want to learn how to draw a labyrinth? I didn’t even know…
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The Golden Ratio in Art is One of the Coolest Things You’ll Ever Encounter
“What makes a single number so captivating that it has persisted in our imagination for more than two thousand years?” -Gary B, Meisner The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics We’re going to dive into what was hands down my favorite thing to learn about in art history class: The Golden Ratio. I know…
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What Are The Best Drawing Pencils? A Pencil Showdown
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Cool Colored Pencil Techniques
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Quick and Easy: Draw Some 3D Shapes
This is truly a quick and easy little tutorial, created by my 15 year old, Fen. I love watching her draw and doodle all over everything in our entire house. Ahem. No, but really! It’s inspiring to see the cool little things she draws, and I find myself copying her drawings much like I used…
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Van Gogh Meets Oil Pastels: Make a Van Gogh Oil Pastel Project
I’m not sure why I haven’t done an oil pastel on black paper project yet, but now that it’s here, it’s fantastic. We’ve got a little Van Gogh, a few sheets of black paper, and a whole pile of luscious, color-infested oil pastels. That’s a recipe for pure art magic, right there. (And messy hands,…
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How to Draw a Really Cool Coloring Page
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Un-Blackout Poetry Drawing
Despite having one of the worst titles on my blog, this book drawing project is one of the most fun things you can do with a ripped-up book. *Pause for those of you who need to click away due to your anti-ripping-up-book beliefs* Now. Back to this amazing old encyclopedia that I’ve used for so…
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It’s Time to Draw Your Own Damn Coloring Book
Coloring books are incredibly fun and creative tools for relaxation, but sometimes you want a bit more of a challenge. Picture yourself sitting at your big, clean table, stack of white card stock to the left of you. Sharpies, Microns, pencils, markers, colored pencils to the right of you. Big cup of tea at 12:00.…
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Moo! Arf! 19 Wild and Wonderful Animal Art Projects
Let’s see a show of hands for how many people like animals? I really hope you raised your hand in real life and then looked around to see if anyone was watching. Animal art projects seem to be super popular with kids- for good reason. Kids love animals (because they are crazy little animals), and…
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From My Book: 1 Simple Drawing Game