Easy How to Draw like Grandma Moses Tutorial and Grandma Moses Coloring Page
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw like Grandma Moses tutorial and a Grandma Moses Coloring Page.
Draw like Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
She gained the nickname “Grandma Moses” from a reviewer at New York’s Herald Tribune. Her paintings became immensely popular and were appreciated for their nostalgic charm. She exhibited her work internationally into her 90s and painted until a few months before her death at age 101.
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Grandma Moses Coloring Page
Materials
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- Drawing Paper. Don’t substitute it with copy paper or construction paper. The surface will get fuzzy, erasing might cause holes, and the colors will generally not look as bright.
- Stabilo Markers. The large pack provides lots of fun color choices, several shades of each color, including a few choices for skin. The tips are perfect for coloring, and there’s even a promise that they will work after being uncapped for 8 weeks!
- Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase.
- Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tips. Stabilo Markers. They have the best colors, the best tips, and last the longest.
- Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent markers are great for making a crisp outline to your drawing. Use them when you want your outline show up, but not be so heavy that it detracts from other things.
Directions
Time needed: 45 minutes
Step by step directions for a Grandma Moses Drawing
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Draw a house near the bottom of the paper.
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Add another house in the middle.
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Draw a church near the top.
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Add a large tree near the bottom, and then a road.
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Draw a fence, more trees and a horizon line behind the church.
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Add more trees near the top of the paper.
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Draw an assortment of people and animals around the drawing.
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Finish by filling in any large spaces with flowers.
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Trace with a marker and color.
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