Learn how to draw a One Point Perspective landscape with this easy step by step tutorial. Use simple and repeating shapes to help illustrate the point. So, what is a one point perspective, you might ask? It’s a type of drawing … Read More
Here’s a fun and easy Faith Ringgold art project that was inspired by the wonderful illustrations she made for her first children’s book “Tar Beach”. Faith Ringgold is an American artist best known for her colorful quilt paintings about American history and politics. … Read More
Learn how to draw a field of poppies for this Veterans Day art project. Their bright red color can make a beautiful landscape drawing. Every year on November 11th, U.S. citizens honor all U.S. service members, but in many other … Read More
Learning how to draw a city with one point perspective works best when you include just a few simple elements and some guides to help you get started. To introduce the idea of one point perspective to older elementary students, … Read More
Learn how to draw a Fall Tree with colorful falling leaves. The simple shapes make it easy for students of all ages. One of the first rules of perspective that even the very young can understand, is that the farther … Read More
Learn how to draw a Sunset with this easy step by step tutorial. A curvy road makes it extra pretty! This is another landscape tutorial that will help young students think more about layers in their artwork. This drawing has … Read More
Learn how to make an easy Halloween drawing with just a marker and crayons. Careful coloring will make a striking silhouette. A sunset silhouette always makes for a colorful drawing, but if you add in a few Halloweenish elements, then … Read More
Learn how to draw a farm with this easy step by step tutorial. This one has a fun birds eye view. This drawing project is more of what you get when you mix a farm with a country map. Instead … Read More
Learn how to draw an Easy Landscape that has a simple fore, middle and background with this step by step tutorial. Once students have mastered drawing houses and roads and hills, they can start to arrange all those elements in … Read More
Learn how to draw an easy tree by starting with a traced hand, and then turning the fingers into branches. This drawing could be turned into a scary Halloween look, or a pretty one with lots of flowering leaves. The … Read More
This fun fall drawing project was inspired by the amazing art of Loretta Grayson. With a little help from a template, young artists can make a fun circle grid tree just like hers! Thanks again to the amazing art of … Read More
Learn how to draw the Earth with this simple step by step tutorial. It’s not that hard to draw something that looks a bit more like the real thing. Learning how to draw the earth, in a somewhat realistic fashion, … Read More
Try mixing colorful patterns with a simple subject matter for this Pop Art Lesson. Keep the shapes simple and the colors bright and see what happens. Pop art was an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and drew inspiration from sources in … Read More
Learn how to draw the Golden Gate Bridge with this step by step tutorial. It gets a little easier when you keep it a silhouette. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the bay in San Francisco … Read More
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn how to draw the pyramids in their natural surroundings, hot sun, sand, shadows and all. After drawing your pyramid in its natural setting, you could get out paint and mix some colors … Read More
Learn how to draw like Edward Hopper with this easy step by step tutorial. His landscape paintings were admired for the feelings they evoked. Edward Hopper, an American painter, was famous for his realistic landscapes and cityscapes that always seemed … Read More
How to draw a landscape for kids with perspective. The rows of trees and extra tall mountains work to exaggerate the point. This tutorial shows just how much space can be implied in your drawing, simply by paying attention to … Read More
Learn how to draw a bridge with this easy step by step tutorial, and then turn it into a lovely shaded sunset. Good old crayons might be more versatile than you think! You can mix some mechanical drawing practice with … Read More
Learn how to blend colors with this step by step tutorial and you can make a beautiful abstract drawing of a fall tree. A great lesson for analogous colors. Whether you are working in an art journal or not, this … Read More
Here’s how to draw an easy rainbow, and then fill the foreground and background with lots of pretty flowers and butterflies. Rainbows actually contain upwards of 1 million colors, but the limitations of our eyes pretty much turn them into … Read More