Teach Your Children About Artists With These Fun Art Projects
by Kate Halfey
Any time that you can combine fun with learning, you have really set the stage for something meaningful for your children. Teaching children about artists might involve looking at books about a particular artist or visiting an art gallery or museum. An even better way to get your kids excited about discovering an artist's work is by having them complete an art project mimicking the style of that artist.
Joan Miro, a Spanish master of Surrealism, has many works particularly suitable for a children's art project. Consider a work of his such as "People and Dog in the Sun." You will note as you view the painting, that essentially this is a painting with whimsical stick figures surrounded by circles and stars. Provide large pieces of paper and begin by having children draw a stick figure in action then adding a few circles and stars. Create the stars by using lines and dots, as Miro did. Once the circles, stars and stick figure are drawn, trace them in black crayon and then use watercolors to paint the circles and background.
Wassily Kandinsky is another great artist to consider teaching your children about, and his abstract works are particularly suitable for kid art projects. Begin by showing your children images of one of his works, such as "Color Studies," which basically is a diamond created out of many colors. "Squares with Concentric Circles," is another suitable painting, and all children need are squares of paper in which they draw or paint colorful circles. Explore further by using something other than crayon or marker and hand your child some chalk or oil pastels. For more advanced artists, consider creating a work in the style of "Composition X," a beautiful collage-like work of Kandinsky's that begins with a sheet of large black paper. Use oil pastels or crayon or good quality chalk to color intersecting shapes.
The works of Paul Klee are extremely striking, and there are many art projects you can consider based on his paintings which display elements of expressionism, surrealism and cubism. A work such as "Senecio," is an excellent starting point for an art project. Have children copy the basic design of the head, neck, eyes and mouth featured in the painting. They will need to trace the lines with a Sharpie or permanent marker and then color each section with oil pastels, taking care to color very heavily. Then paint over the picture with acrylic paint and when this is dry, gently scrape away much of the paint to reveal the picture underneath.
Collage art is fun for children, and one artist that excels in collage is David Hockney. Show your children pictures of some of his photo collages and have them search through magazines to find pictures that appeal to them. Once they find a great picture, perhaps a beautiful nature scene, have them cut it into strips or squares and then paste it onto paper. The image should still look similar to the original photo, but by rotating the pieces or overlapping them slightly, the image is distorted somewhat and quite interesting.
You can also purchase and download PDF art murals from websites such as ArtProjectsForKids.org. This is a great way to introduce your child to an artist or work of art that might be more difficult to imitate, such as Van Gogh or Monet. These PDFs are divided into squares with a portion of the painting drawn on each square. Children simply color each piece and then arrange them and paste them on a large piece of paper to recreate a collage of a famous painting, such as Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or Klimt's "Tree of Life."
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