Embedded Files
Our Purpose
Our Purpose
Our intention in creating this site is to inform kids, students, parents, and anyone else about the benefits of visual arts and different mediums that are used to make it. So many people brush off and underestimate the therapeutic effects of making art however you want. On our page, we include how art is connected and used on other topics in this website, such as mental health and game design.
Kids should make art to improve their motor skills, build confidence, boost their creativity, and teaches creative problem solving. Adults do not have to be embarrassed trying out new things and can use art as an outlet for their feelings. The art kids and adults make does not have to be perfect, even a quick sketch on paper, or a scribble on your hand is more than enough. You do not need fancy tools to make art , you can just use some paper and markers and will still get the same effect of being able to express yourself through your drawings. Art is also present in many career paths such as illustration, public relations, graphic design, and game design, since art is always needed for graphics and game play.
We appreciate you reading our website and hope you that you are able to take away the information from it and be able to incorporate it into your life, and also realize how helpful art can be to anyone regardless of age.
Video about Art
Video about Art
IMG_5692.MOV
Imagination
Imagination
Letting kids get the freedom to draw however they want will allow their creative process to grow.
Drawing in groups
Drawing in groups
Kids drawing in a group with others will allow them to share their ideas with each other and collaborate on new ideas.
Using photos to help with art
Using photos to help with art
Drawing from a picture can differ from person to person because people perceive things differently from others.
Gross motor skills: Painting, drawing, and crafts, encourage neural connections that improve gross motor skills.
Fine motor skills: Drawing, cutting with scissors, finger painting, and origami all build fine motor skills.
Hand eye coordination: Playing with shapes, tracing, and and even coloring within the lines can help with hand eye coordination.
Data/Statistics about art for kids
Data/Statistics about art for kids
Confidence boosting: Praising kids about their art will help boost their self-esteem and give them confidence
Self expression: Kids express themselves through decisions about their art medium.
Purpose: Art gives kids a sense of purpose, especially if the struggle with learning difficulties or social issues
Relaxation: Practicing art can be a form of mediation
May discover lifelong passion: It's not the case for all kids, but art can help kids realize they may want to pursue it as a career.
Poinsett, Pierrette Mimi. “35 Powerful Benefits of Art for Kids (Importance of Art).” Mom Loves Best, 2 June 2021, momlovesbest.com/benefits-of-art-for-kids.
Sketching
Sketching
Sketching your surroundings can help you be more observant of the world around you. It does not have to be fully detailed sketches, it can be loose fast ones that captures what you have seen.
Painting
Painting
Painting is a detailed process you have to learn. It can reach patience and how to be precise in your details.
Murals
Murals
Murals display messages that can have a big impact and help you speak and express yourself to a larger audience.
Other
Other
You do not always have to use pencils and pens. Other mediums like crayons, markers, and colored pencils can also help you with ways to creatively express yourself.
Stacie Monday (@artbymonday)
Stacie Monday is a self taught artist who started in 2014. Her main medium is acrylic paint. In her work she celebrates African- American Women. In her paintings she illustrates the struggles, lessons, and experiences that happen to black women in America. She paints in order to change the negative stereotypes and views on black women.
Dain Yoon (@designdain)
Dain Yoon is a painter who uses her body as a canvas. She paints illusions that are photorealistic that usually freak people out. She paints different ways in order to express a persons diversity.
Art Influencers
Art Influencers
Benny Or (@bennyor)
Benny Or is an architecture artist. He does production design and works behind the scene on stages like iHeartRadio music, where it is seen by millions of people.
Banksy (@banksy)
Banksy is an anonymous street artist who does graffiti. His works consist on doing freehand but he also uses stencils sometimes. His work is combining slogans with striking images that address topics like greed, war, and capitalism. He also does instillation work.
Kara Walker (@kara_walker_official)
Kara Walker is a contemporary painter that explores, gender, sexuality, race, violence, and identity, in her artwork. She does room sized black paper cut out silhouettes on white walls. Her work addresses American slavery and racism and how it still affects us in modern times.
Connections
Connections
Mental Health
Art can help both kids and adults with their mental health. It helps them use art as an outlet to express themselves by drawing in ways that don't have to make sense, such as scribbling.
Adults can feel overwhelmed by the world around them and they can use art as an outlet for all that anxiety and stress.
Kids do not always have to use markers, brushes, or crayons to express themselves. They can use their hands to illustrate their feelings on paper and canvas.
Art therapy can be used to help vets too, not just kids. They can also use art as a way for them to express what they felt when they were serving.
In this graph, we can see how art therapy has impacted vets and helped them with their post traumatic stress.
Data/Statistics on Art therapy
Data/Statistics on Art therapy
In this bar graph, there are two groups who were doing two different versions of art therapy, short term versus long term. For group B the most common thing talked about was self expression and identity, while for group D it was trauma processing and personal insight.
Kaimal, Girija, et al. “Evaluation of Long- and Short-Term Art Therapy Interventions in an Integrative Care Setting for Military Service Members with Post-Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury.” The Arts in Psychotherapy, vol. 62, 2019, pp. 28–36. Crossref, doi:10.1016/j.aip.2018.10.003.
A environmental 3D artist in game design creates the 3D environment and builds the world of the game by coloring and creating the landscape of the game.
Game Design
Game Design
Art is used in game design when it comes to the creation of the peoples, animals, and environment. Game designers use sketches in order to have the base down for their concept art, before they officially begin working on the game.
A concept artist is able to illustrate sketches for the game that the art director ask for. They can use tradition media to make the sketches or they can use digital media like Adobe Photoshop.
Income data about artists
Income data about artists
State Employment Employment per thousand jobs Hourly mean wage Annual mean wage
California: 2,070 0.12 $36.65 $76,230
New York: 1,410 0.15 $24.17 $48,960
Florida 900 0.10 $22.22 $46,210
Ohio: 650 0.12 $20.90 $43,470
Texas: 560 0.05 $25.67 $53,400
“Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators.” U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9 Sept. 2008, www.bls.gov/oes/2018/may/oes271013.htm#(8).
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse