This page is a mix of websites and link to learn about famous artists from history, as well as projects that you can do at home
Click on the link below in the Table of Contents to go to a specific project, or scroll down to view them all!
Make Art like Piet Mondrian:
Materials:
Paper
Colored Pencils- Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black
Ruler
Pencil Sharpener (as needed)
Steps:
Using your Ruler, make lines on your paper with the Black Colored Pencil. Draw one line vertially or horizonally first, then each next line should be drawn until it hits another line (Basically: Stop your line if you have reached another line you've drawn!)
The trick here is to draw your lines Vertically (up and down) and Horizontally (side to side) rather than Diagonally (at an angle).
Make these lines thicker by making two lines next to each other and filling them in.
Once the lines are drawn and filled in, its time to fill in boxes. Piet Mondrian used The Primary Colors of Painting, which are Red, Yellow, and Blue. He was also careful in which boxes he filled in with his colors. He usually didn't fill them all in, but instead left many of the boxes blank.
When you are deciding where to color, think hard about what your artwork might look like after you've colored in that specific box. Ask yourself: WHY DID I DECIDE TO COLOR THAT BOX? And HOW DOES THIS BOX LOOK WHEN I'VE COLORED IN MY NEXT BOX?
ABSTRACT ART: Artwork that is art that doesn't show anything that is recognizable like people, places, or things, but instead is the use of line, color, shape and texture to make their artwork.
This artwork is all about the process of making. What feels right to you rather than attempting to make it "look like" something.
Have fun experimenting with this style of art. Make a bunch of pieces and see which one you like the best!
Check out this page to learn a little bit about artist Piet Mondrian: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-piet-mondrian
Jen Stark creates unique and beautiful 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional works of art using materials such as paper, metal, wood and paint. These pieces are often organic (rounded edges with smooth, gliding shapes instead of pointed lines and geometric shapes), minimal (not highly details), and natural (shapes that might be seen in nature). Her work is very colorful, because she is interested in how color is used in nature to be both an attraction (like colorful flowers with bees) or a warning (like colorful, but poisonous tree frogs). Check out her work here: www.jenstark.com
Make some art like Jen Stark:
Materials:
Paper (ROYGBIV and other colors!)- Cut into squares.
Scissors
Cardboard
Glue Bottle
Steps:
Start by cutting my construction paper in all different colors into 5x5" squares.
You can make these squares bigger or smaller, but I've found that 5x5" is a nice, easy size to work with.
Line your pages up in the order of the colors you would like ot see as the pages move back.
Start with the top page, and draw a large shape. This should be random, wavy and organic (see to the left for the explanation).
Bend, crease, and snip the center of this page, then flatten out and cut the shape out that you made in the first page.
Pick up your second page, and lay your first (now cut out) page on top. Use the first page as a guide to see where you need to draw your second page.
For this part, your second page should show slightly more color than the first, but should be generally the same shape.
Repeat Step 4 on your second page.
Repeat the previous steps for every page you have, cutting out less and less paper, until you get to the last page, which won't be cut out at all.
(OPTIONAL) You have 2 choices to finish this piece.
You can finish by using your glue to glue each page together, one layer at a time, making a flat work of art that still gives a slight optical illustion.
Take a sheet of cardboard and cut it down into smaller squares (very small!). Use these squares to separate the pieces of paper by put squares of cardboard on the corners of each page, and in some spaces that might need to be held up. Glue the other side of the cardboard sqaures, and attach this to the next piece of paper. Continue this process to createa more pronounced optical illusion.