fine arts
<joanne.morehouse@...>
Hi my daughter has expressed an interest in learning more about art (painting, etc) anyone know of any good resources? She is 13.
<sukaynalabboun@...>
My daughter was also interested so I started by discussing what supplies she felt she needed....for example, I suggested experimenting with acrylic paints on canvas, getting better brushes, special grade artists paper, pastels, coal sketching pencils, etc. I am no art expert, but I managed a small bundle of supplies to add to our pre existing ones. I started also with little investment ( I think around 20$) to see where that might lead. I also offered support and whatever knowledge I had when she asked for it. There are a lot of online tutorials, and you may be surprised with the info you have stored away ( i had read about layers and shades in paintings). The single most valuable thing, though, was being receptive to her interest and providing at least some materials for her to start experimenting.
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Karen
>>>>> Hi my daughter has expressed an interest in learning more about art (painting, etc) anyone know of any good resources? She is 13.<<<<<Art, like so many things, is so wide open it would be difficult to make a meaningful recommendation without knowing more specifically where your daughter's interests lie.
Is she interested in painting, herself? Maybe she is literally interested in painting herself, or other people. (http://www.facesbyren.com/) What kinds of materials does she currently like to play with? What kinds of art is she drawn to? Is she interested in learning about specific artists? Or does she like to do her own thing? Is she interested in a broad understanding of art or does she find something(s) in particular very intriguing? Maybe she is interested in the history of art and culture?
As would be the case for any interest, begin where that interest and her ability lie and help her build from there. How did she express her interest? From where did that stem? I would say visit art museums, but if she were like my son, that would not be very interesting to her. Maybe she likes street art or set design painting or computer graphics. In each of those instances you would take her to very different places, introduce very different tools, explore very different resources.
Sandra has a page with art ideas and links:
http://sandradodd.com/art/
If you use Facebook, there is a nice group called "My unschooler is interested in..." where you can share what your child is interested in, and in turn many people will post some ideas of things they've explored or think you and your daughter might find relevant:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/383815885025681/
BRIAN POLIKOWSKY
As someone who loves many kinds of art and art medium and who can draw pretty well and was very interested as a child I would say that if she wants :
Buy her books with lots of pictures of art ( painting, drawings, sculptors, pottery, jewellery, tapestry , make up, clothing design, ....
My parents had encyclopedia with the
classic art pieces and about famous artist and I used to sit and look at it for hours.
Look up beautiful things on Pinterest
Go to art gallery, museums, craft shows, art shows.
Buy her all kinds of materials to play with.
But do not do any art classes! Unless she really wants to learn a technique and after trying online tutorials.
Because art can be inspired by anything but it comes from the person's interpretation. I really think most art classes for kids are simply not the way the go.
There is NOT a right way to do art. Looking for beauty on everything is a wonderful way
to see , learn and live art.
Be that mom that points out beautiful and interesting things all around.
Alex Polikowsky
Sandra Dodd
When Kirby was little we went to a homeschooling day where parents ran sessions for children to learn things (exposure, generally, to theatre, art, math, crafts kinds of things—not by unschoolers). That's the day I first played with those stained-wood pattern blocks I love so much! "Attribute blocks," they were called in those days.
But in a room with glass windows to the hallway, one dad was showing older kids how to paint nighttime mountain snow scenes with just three colors—white, black and blue. OMG I had NO IDEA people could do that! They were doing trees in canyons with moonlight and snow and it didn't look like just three colors.
Painting is beyond me, but that day I learned enough to look at oil and acrylic paintings with smarter eyes. :-)
Seeing what's on youtube for musicians by musicians, I bet there's a ton of stuff there showing people doing things like that with paints. I have friends who can do amazing shading with water colors, guache and inks, on medieval-style scrolls. I can do rudimentary background ivy patterns with light green, darker green and gold, but I paint like a monkey compared to friends I've watched.
So youtube.
AND museum websites of paintings, where you can look at the painting SO CLOSELY you can see brush strokes.
Oh! Art.com, then, where they will sell prints and you can look closely before you consider buying.
If she loves a particular painting, get her a poster, maybe. My favorite is Children's Games by Breughel the Elder. I have a poster and a jigsaw puzzle. I bought the poster for $1 from Scholastic books in the early 1970's and once in a while I have it up for a while. http://www.art.com/products/p14616442397-sa-i6774652/pieter-breughel-the-el-children-s-games-complete.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5534841&ui=8f16f8141fe14e26bdf801780717626c&ssk=pieter+breughel+the+elder
It's history, costume, play, architecture. Oh right. And painting. :-)
If face painting is too much for her as a beginner, hand painting might be fun. Painting shoes on feet is something I did with my kids when they were little, using just tempera or sometimes real body paints. When I was little I painted bracelets and rings on my hands.
Nail polish! At the Apple store the other day one of the guys at the genius bar had his nails done with black and green chevrons. I kept wondering if he had used tape to mask the triangles, but he said it was just freehand.
Bristol, England, has street graffiti everywhere, and painted walls inside buildings, inside public bathrooms, because years ago they covered over some art by a guy who became super famous, and they regret it, so they went a bit far the other way. That can be fun to look into, and easily available on the internet. Alison/Almadoing showed me a lot of that art and told me about it, when I stayed with her. The artist's name was Banksy, and you can google Bristol Banksy and see lots of things.
I'm fascinated by tromp l'oeil. You'll see some at the Banksy page. There are many-stories-high examples in Lyon, in France. Right behind my house there are two storage containers painted with lifesize 1950's cars that can look real even from a short distance. They're decoration for the business in front of them, that has some other things by the same artist (it's Fastino's, for locals to Albuquerque) who did full two-story-wall tromp l'oeil near the university of New Mexico, behind and around Saggio's (a related restaurant).
And there's electronic painting, too, which can be practiced easily with games like Draw Something (which doesn't have to be simple stick figures) and Art Pad: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/ and if she likes that you might be able to get her a computer program (or there might already be something easily available—someone here will know).
There are moms here who do art. Oil on canvas: http://karenjamess.blogspot.com/2012/09/to-moon-and-back.html
Colored pencil, Jenny Cyphers... (I couldn't find a link to art, but maybe someone else here will.)
The aforementioned Ren Allen who wrote a lot in years past and does makeup and body art now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTjtBPhqH0
Sandra
But in a room with glass windows to the hallway, one dad was showing older kids how to paint nighttime mountain snow scenes with just three colors—white, black and blue. OMG I had NO IDEA people could do that! They were doing trees in canyons with moonlight and snow and it didn't look like just three colors.
Painting is beyond me, but that day I learned enough to look at oil and acrylic paintings with smarter eyes. :-)
Seeing what's on youtube for musicians by musicians, I bet there's a ton of stuff there showing people doing things like that with paints. I have friends who can do amazing shading with water colors, guache and inks, on medieval-style scrolls. I can do rudimentary background ivy patterns with light green, darker green and gold, but I paint like a monkey compared to friends I've watched.
So youtube.
AND museum websites of paintings, where you can look at the painting SO CLOSELY you can see brush strokes.
Oh! Art.com, then, where they will sell prints and you can look closely before you consider buying.
If she loves a particular painting, get her a poster, maybe. My favorite is Children's Games by Breughel the Elder. I have a poster and a jigsaw puzzle. I bought the poster for $1 from Scholastic books in the early 1970's and once in a while I have it up for a while. http://www.art.com/products/p14616442397-sa-i6774652/pieter-breughel-the-el-children-s-games-complete.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5534841&ui=8f16f8141fe14e26bdf801780717626c&ssk=pieter+breughel+the+elder
It's history, costume, play, architecture. Oh right. And painting. :-)
If face painting is too much for her as a beginner, hand painting might be fun. Painting shoes on feet is something I did with my kids when they were little, using just tempera or sometimes real body paints. When I was little I painted bracelets and rings on my hands.
Nail polish! At the Apple store the other day one of the guys at the genius bar had his nails done with black and green chevrons. I kept wondering if he had used tape to mask the triangles, but he said it was just freehand.
Bristol, England, has street graffiti everywhere, and painted walls inside buildings, inside public bathrooms, because years ago they covered over some art by a guy who became super famous, and they regret it, so they went a bit far the other way. That can be fun to look into, and easily available on the internet. Alison/Almadoing showed me a lot of that art and told me about it, when I stayed with her. The artist's name was Banksy, and you can google Bristol Banksy and see lots of things.
I'm fascinated by tromp l'oeil. You'll see some at the Banksy page. There are many-stories-high examples in Lyon, in France. Right behind my house there are two storage containers painted with lifesize 1950's cars that can look real even from a short distance. They're decoration for the business in front of them, that has some other things by the same artist (it's Fastino's, for locals to Albuquerque) who did full two-story-wall tromp l'oeil near the university of New Mexico, behind and around Saggio's (a related restaurant).
And there's electronic painting, too, which can be practiced easily with games like Draw Something (which doesn't have to be simple stick figures) and Art Pad: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/ and if she likes that you might be able to get her a computer program (or there might already be something easily available—someone here will know).
There are moms here who do art. Oil on canvas: http://karenjamess.blogspot.com/2012/09/to-moon-and-back.html
Colored pencil, Jenny Cyphers... (I couldn't find a link to art, but maybe someone else here will.)
The aforementioned Ren Allen who wrote a lot in years past and does makeup and body art now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTjtBPhqH0
Sandra
Nicole August
Hi,
I'm really into art too :). My son (14) loves photography. We both love
this site for inspiration: http://www.thisiscolossal.com They showcase
all kinds of different things. This post was fun:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/instagram-experiments-javier-perez/
Here's a post about a 14 year old's photography:
http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/
There are all kinds of ideas out there !
-Nicole
artbetweentheworlds.com
I'm really into art too :). My son (14) loves photography. We both love
this site for inspiration: http://www.thisiscolossal.com They showcase
all kinds of different things. This post was fun:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/instagram-experiments-javier-perez/
Here's a post about a 14 year old's photography:
http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/
There are all kinds of ideas out there !
-Nicole
artbetweentheworlds.com
On 13-10-28 9:31 PM, joanne.morehouse@... wrote:
> Hi my daughter has expressed an interest in learning more about art
> (painting, etc) anyone know of any good resources? She is 13.
>
>
Sandra Dodd
-=-There is NOT a right way to do art. Looking for beauty on everything is a wonderful way to see , learn and live art.
Be that mom that points out beautiful and interesting things all around.-=-
Alex wrote that.
I collect things. I've been collecting images of wheelbarrows. Some of those photos, settings, wheelbarrows are really beautiful. Some are old. Some are new, but elegant. Some have been decorated. Some are props in historical settings, or movies or TV shows or paintings. Some are themselves artistic renditions of wheelbarrows.
Here is some art by a French photographer, using a wheelbarrow and the moon: http://wheelbarrowthings.blogspot.com/2013/10/playing-with-moon.html
This is the oldest one I've seen myself, in a medieval village (preserved for tourists) near Geneva: http://wheelbarrowthings.blogspot.com/2013/07/three-wheeled-barrow-antique-france.html
My house is less cluttered since I started collecting digital images instead of physical objects. I still haul home oddities, but photos are easier to store and to share.
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com is one of my collecting and sharing places.
Cars matching their trailers (two sets, both blue, different continents): http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2011/10/trail-trailer-wagon-fender.html
Dashboards of old trucks: http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2007/12/everyday-art.html
I'm sure dashboards of current cars will look like art someday, as will our cellphones and DVD players, but now they all just look plain and "normal."
I'm not saying what these are. Each is a clue to be considered and revealed gradually:
This is a webpage with a background made from a photo that was itself evidence of artistry by a child. A child did the meal, a mom photographed and sent it to me, and I (years ago, with my rudimentary knowledge of Photoshop Elements) created a background from part of it. http://sandradodd.com/t/holly
Some websites are beautiful. I love the map on the front of Pam Laricchia's website: http://livingjoyfully.ca And there's treasure in there!
My website is a mish-mosh of stuff, but here are some of the things I've used for title—many were pieces of art created by readers specifically for my site. Some were painted. I would consider using more, if anyone's in the mood to doodle up something. http://sandradodd.com/art/title/
Sandra
Jamie Maltman
Would you and your kids like to visit some of the great art (and other) museums around the world? Try going online with the Google Cultural Institute.
One of Google's coolest initiatives.
They have sections for the Art Project, World Wonders, and Historic Moments.
The Art Project is amazing for budding artists young and old, and its organized by artist, by collection, or you can look at a map and see all the places they've added.
World Wonders?
How about Versailles or the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (one of the most moving places I've ever been)
Historic Moments?
How about Bletchley Park, home of WWII's codebreakers? Or the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Enjoy!
Jamie (the Dad)