There are many different styles of art and hundreds of amazing artists, so choosing just a few to share with your children can be difficult. Here are just a few important artists that your children should know about and some fun projects that can make the learning even more fun.
One artist that children generally enjoy learning about is post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh. His colorful style in works such as Irises and Starry Night are quite appealing, and his style influenced a wide range of artists. With a painting such as Starry Night, your kids can actually recreate this work with an easy-to-download PDF mural from ArtProjectsForKids.org. Each page printed has a section of Starry Night on it, and your children simply color each piece and then you put it all in order to recreate their own version of the famous painting. You can paste it down on a piece of poster board, cardboard or even an actual canvas.
Before Van Gogh, there was Claude Monet whose Impressionist works are beautiful and vivid. Children will especially like to see his Water Lilies and other garden-inspired works. Your children can mimic his style using bright oil pastels, which are much like crayons in their ease of use. Have them draw several colorful lilies on a piece of white paper. Then have them create a swirl of light green beneath each lily and a few squiggles of white here and there to show the movement of water. Once this is complete, have them cover the paper with blue watercolor paint.
Children sometimes feel frustrated when their paintings and drawings don't look exactly as the object they are drawing. Showing them examples from artists such as Picasso will encourage the idea that in art, there is beauty even when the painting is not realistic. Picasso was the father of the Cubist movement, and you can highlight this style of art with a cool self portrait. Have children fill the entire paper with a large head and have them add large ovals for the eyes that intersect with the straight lines of a nose. Color the sections of the face in different colors using any medium, from watercolors to crayons.
You can highlight the works of a great American painter as well as a great woman painter by completing a project that mimics the work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Many of her paintings were images of large flowers, and this is the perfect springboard for a project. Clip some large pictures of flowers perhaps from magazine pages or calendars. Let children sketch the flower first in pencil and make sure they make it big, nearly hitting the edges or going beyond the edges of the paper. Then color the flower and the background with chalk pastels.
Showing your children the works of someone like Jackson Pollock is an excellent introduction to the idea of abstract art. Kids will have a great time splashing and tossing paint onto a large poster board or canvas. Consider using a black paper or perhaps painting a canvas black with rough brush strokes and then splashing paint on top of that. This can be a fun outdoor art project, and kids will enjoy the freedom of creating art without any lines or rules.
One artist that children generally enjoy learning about is post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh. His colorful style in works such as Irises and Starry Night are quite appealing, and his style influenced a wide range of artists. With a painting such as Starry Night, your kids can actually recreate this work with an easy-to-download PDF mural from ArtProjectsForKids.org. Each page printed has a section of Starry Night on it, and your children simply color each piece and then you put it all in order to recreate their own version of the famous painting. You can paste it down on a piece of poster board, cardboard or even an actual canvas.
Before Van Gogh, there was Claude Monet whose Impressionist works are beautiful and vivid. Children will especially like to see his Water Lilies and other garden-inspired works. Your children can mimic his style using bright oil pastels, which are much like crayons in their ease of use. Have them draw several colorful lilies on a piece of white paper. Then have them create a swirl of light green beneath each lily and a few squiggles of white here and there to show the movement of water. Once this is complete, have them cover the paper with blue watercolor paint.
Children sometimes feel frustrated when their paintings and drawings don't look exactly as the object they are drawing. Showing them examples from artists such as Picasso will encourage the idea that in art, there is beauty even when the painting is not realistic. Picasso was the father of the Cubist movement, and you can highlight this style of art with a cool self portrait. Have children fill the entire paper with a large head and have them add large ovals for the eyes that intersect with the straight lines of a nose. Color the sections of the face in different colors using any medium, from watercolors to crayons.
You can highlight the works of a great American painter as well as a great woman painter by completing a project that mimics the work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Many of her paintings were images of large flowers, and this is the perfect springboard for a project. Clip some large pictures of flowers perhaps from magazine pages or calendars. Let children sketch the flower first in pencil and make sure they make it big, nearly hitting the edges or going beyond the edges of the paper. Then color the flower and the background with chalk pastels.
Showing your children the works of someone like Jackson Pollock is an excellent introduction to the idea of abstract art. Kids will have a great time splashing and tossing paint onto a large poster board or canvas. Consider using a black paper or perhaps painting a canvas black with rough brush strokes and then splashing paint on top of that. This can be a fun outdoor art project, and kids will enjoy the freedom of creating art without any lines or rules.
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Kate Halfey likes writing about art projects for kids. For further information about art projects like Joan Miro paintings or to find Kandinsky for kids art projects, please go to the ArtProjectsForKids.org website now.
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