Category: Art Lessons

Snow Leopards reside in Central Asia. In the summer months snow leopards will stay high up in the mountains, in the winter months they will come down from the mountains into the forest. Snow leopards’ tails are long and flexible, helping them to maintain their balance, which is very important in the rocky terrain they…

Drawing through the Alphabet. This is always a cute lesson. Who doesn’t want to draw a fuzzy bee? Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where…

When you are learning how to properly shade it is always helpful to learn by drawing the sphere. In this lesson students learn that there are 5 basic elements of shading that make up the sphere. The Full Light area Halftone area Cast Shadows Shadow Edges Reflected Light  This video clip is done by the artist…

Well I have a few students that have been asking me to do a pig lesson. We had a lesson where we learned how to sculpt them  out of salt dough. Then decided to draw them! Piglets are one of the cutest baby animals. Pigs are very intelligent animals. A pig’s snout is an important tool…

When I was a child my Mother would make the most amazing things out of salt dough. She really took the molding to a new level. I remember her sculpting large nativity scenes, wreaths, animal sets, basically everything. So as a kid I did many of my own creations. The great thing about salt dough…

Well things have been fun and busy. Kindred Art is teaching a Advanced art program at Monforton school! Yay! It has been exciting to use some advanced lessons to challenge these students. Koi fish make one of the best pond fish to care for and make one of the best garden fish. Koi Fish originate…

The Zebra is a fantastic lesson! This lesson takes a great deal of hand eye coordination to not only draw the outline of the Zebra, but to also draw the connecting stripes in the right places! It is believed that the zebra’s stripes work like camouflage, according to the National Geographic. When zebras stand together, it…

Puppies. One of the cutest baby animals there are! We talked together about the dogs or animals we may have in our home. We read the book Big dog Little Dog. It is a pop up book! I also brought in a few toy puppies. I think that was fun for the kids to hold them…

Students looked at inspiration by Linford Donovan before creating their own version of art the Girl with Calla Lily’s. Lesson involved learning the proportions of the face. Such as the eye lids, highlight in the eye, and how the upper lip is usually darker than the lower lip. Children were able to choose the flower color and…

Today we were painting Acrylic paints on canvas. We learned a little about the owl. Barn owls mate for life. They cuddle with their mate and babies. When one mate dies, the other one becomes depressed and might even die too. Owls can’t move their eyes. They must turn their heads to see. Over 200…