How to Draw like Mary Cassatt Tutorial and Mary Cassatt Coloring Page
Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw like Mary Cassatt and Mary Cassatt Coloring Page. She was an American painter and printmaker and part of the Impressionists in Paris.
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Mary Cassatt was an American painter who boldly rebelled against the expectations set for her as a woman in the 19th century.
She was born into a wealthy family, but her father deeply disapproved of her painting as a career and even refused to buy her art supplies.
Mary spent much of her life painting loving scenes of families and children, and accomplished remarkable things in a time when ‘women didn’t do art’.
This step by step tutorial will show students how to draw like Mary Cassatt by making a simple composition of a mother reading to her child.
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Mary Cassatt Coloring Page
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Materials
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Directions
Time needed: 45 minutes
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Draw the woman’s head and hair.
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Add her face, ear and hair lines.
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Draw her neck, shoulder and hand.
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Add an open book behind the hand.
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Draw the child’s head (it will look really large before the face and hair are added.)
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Add downward looking face on the child’s head.
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Draw the child’s hair, and collar of the dress.
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Finish the dress details and add a hand on the
left side of the book. Erase the head line. -
Trace with a marker and fill with soft colors.