It is often difficult for many children to come up with ideas for art projects. While there is certainly no wrong style of art, we often see children, when left to their own devices, creating drawings of images with which they are quite familiar, such as a local park, a favorite pet or a family portrait. To further enhance your child's creativity, show them the works of famous artists and a range of styles that will inspire them to think outside the box.
For many kids, it is easiest for them to draw, paint and color pictures that are fairly realistic, but it can be fun to introduce them to familiar scenes painted in less realistic ways. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are two styles of art that look somewhat realistic yet are somewhat different. You can show your child how to mimic the brush strokes of an artist such as Seurat or even download a printable mural of one of his works from a website like ArtProjectsForKids.org. This site breaks down famous works of art into manageable sections which you color and then reposition like a puzzle, and you end up with a work of art very similar yet different from the original. Other artists to consider include Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet.
Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro or Rene Magritte offer plenty of great inspirational easy art projects for kids. Show the children some of Miro's work and explain how he used circles and lines to create dreamlike images of people, animals and objects. Encourage the children to draw stick figures with circles here and there and then color the various sections, circles and intersecting parts to create a colorful picture. Magritte's "Son of Man," is a fun painting to mimic. Just have children create a person with every element except the face. In place of this feature, add an apple or really any type of fruit or food or even an object and have them talk about why they chose that object.
The style of art known as abstract is a wonderful option for children as it allows them to create with color but not have to worry about any real structure or form. To begin an abstract project, show them the pictures of Sonia Delauney or Jackson Pollack. For Delauney, consider creating a project based around colorful circles. For Pollack, dive in and get messy, splashing or dripping paint onto a blank canvas or even using your fingers for part of the painting. You can even paint the paper first in one solid color and then splash on a variety of colors.
Art is truly all around us and just about any object can be a great art subject, from the can of soda in the refrigerator or the comic strip from the weekly newspaper. This has certainly been the opinion of Pop Art painters, who were inspired by the popular products of the current times. For instance, Andy Warhol painted a can of Campbell's Soup. Roy Lichtenstein created vivid paintings that look like they are straight out of a comic book. David Hockney transforms a realistic painting into something unique by overlapping and using collage. A Hockney project could be as simple as cutting a photograph into pieces and pasting the pieces down in a slightly skewed manner. Children could paint a picture of a favorite food package or create their very own comic strip as other Pop art ideas.
No matter what type of project you decide to do, the main goals are always to have fun and also to learn about many types of art. By exposing your children to many styles, they see that the only limit to art is the limit of their imagination.
For many kids, it is easiest for them to draw, paint and color pictures that are fairly realistic, but it can be fun to introduce them to familiar scenes painted in less realistic ways. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are two styles of art that look somewhat realistic yet are somewhat different. You can show your child how to mimic the brush strokes of an artist such as Seurat or even download a printable mural of one of his works from a website like ArtProjectsForKids.org. This site breaks down famous works of art into manageable sections which you color and then reposition like a puzzle, and you end up with a work of art very similar yet different from the original. Other artists to consider include Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet.
Surrealist painters such as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro or Rene Magritte offer plenty of great inspirational easy art projects for kids. Show the children some of Miro's work and explain how he used circles and lines to create dreamlike images of people, animals and objects. Encourage the children to draw stick figures with circles here and there and then color the various sections, circles and intersecting parts to create a colorful picture. Magritte's "Son of Man," is a fun painting to mimic. Just have children create a person with every element except the face. In place of this feature, add an apple or really any type of fruit or food or even an object and have them talk about why they chose that object.
The style of art known as abstract is a wonderful option for children as it allows them to create with color but not have to worry about any real structure or form. To begin an abstract project, show them the pictures of Sonia Delauney or Jackson Pollack. For Delauney, consider creating a project based around colorful circles. For Pollack, dive in and get messy, splashing or dripping paint onto a blank canvas or even using your fingers for part of the painting. You can even paint the paper first in one solid color and then splash on a variety of colors.
Art is truly all around us and just about any object can be a great art subject, from the can of soda in the refrigerator or the comic strip from the weekly newspaper. This has certainly been the opinion of Pop Art painters, who were inspired by the popular products of the current times. For instance, Andy Warhol painted a can of Campbell's Soup. Roy Lichtenstein created vivid paintings that look like they are straight out of a comic book. David Hockney transforms a realistic painting into something unique by overlapping and using collage. A Hockney project could be as simple as cutting a photograph into pieces and pasting the pieces down in a slightly skewed manner. Children could paint a picture of a favorite food package or create their very own comic strip as other Pop art ideas.
No matter what type of project you decide to do, the main goals are always to have fun and also to learn about many types of art. By exposing your children to many styles, they see that the only limit to art is the limit of their imagination.
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Kate Halfey loves writing about art projects for kids. For additional info about different styles of arts like Joan Miro for kids art projects or to find Kandinsky circle painting projects, please go to the ArtProjectsForKids.org site now.
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