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.
Children, especially those with no formal art training, tend to draw pictures that feature realistic objects even if the perspective is off. Realism also can be a bit frustrating because children might feel unsatisfied that their art looks the way it does. Introducing them to artists that paint in a less realistic manner can free them up and allow them to understand that art doesn't have to look real in order to be beautiful. Consider starting with a fun mural featuring an impressionist master such as Monet or a post-impressionist such as Van Gogh. These murals can be downloaded onto your computer and then printed out. Each page is a section of the famous painting that can be painted or colored with crayons, markers, colored pencils or oil pastels. In the end, you arrange the colored pieces in order and the result is a beautiful copy of renowned painting.
Surrealism is another painting style that can provide a great deal of inspiration to children. For example, you can easily center an art project around the works of Joan Miro or Salvador Dali. Share with children that this style of art is very much like a dream, and the artists of this style hope to alter the way people look at things. One fun project would include looking at the works of Rene Magritte, who is famous for his paintings of business men with an apple instead of a face. Have children draw a body and then instead of a face, they can add an apple or any type of fruit or food. For Joan Miro, consider having children draw a picture of a person or animal using only circles, straight lines and stars, and then filling in the shapes and sections in vivid colors.
Children are constantly being told to follow rules, but art is often an area where they are completely free. To show them that art doesn't have to follow any rules, show them paintings by abstract artists such as Jackson Pollack or Sonia Delauney. Then encourage them to create their own abstract works. For a Delauney-style painting, have them create a painting filled with huge, colorful circles. For Pollack, throw down some newspaper, put a canvas on top and let them explore using paint by dripping or splashing or even flinging paint onto the paper. As Pollack said, "the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating." So children can see that art doesn't have to illustrate, but can just be expressive.
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.
In the end, the most important thing your children will learn is that art truly has no limit. Whatever a child thinks is beautiful, striking or captivating in some way can be the basis for an amazing art project.
Children, especially those with no formal art training, tend to draw pictures that feature realistic objects even if the perspective is off. Realism also can be a bit frustrating because children might feel unsatisfied that their art looks the way it does. Introducing them to artists that paint in a less realistic manner can free them up and allow them to understand that art doesn't have to look real in order to be beautiful. Consider starting with a fun mural featuring an impressionist master such as Monet or a post-impressionist such as Van Gogh. These murals can be downloaded onto your computer and then printed out. Each page is a section of the famous painting that can be painted or colored with crayons, markers, colored pencils or oil pastels. In the end, you arrange the colored pieces in order and the result is a beautiful copy of renowned painting.
Surrealism is another painting style that can provide a great deal of inspiration to children. For example, you can easily center an art project around the works of Joan Miro or Salvador Dali. Share with children that this style of art is very much like a dream, and the artists of this style hope to alter the way people look at things. One fun project would include looking at the works of Rene Magritte, who is famous for his paintings of business men with an apple instead of a face. Have children draw a body and then instead of a face, they can add an apple or any type of fruit or food. For Joan Miro, consider having children draw a picture of a person or animal using only circles, straight lines and stars, and then filling in the shapes and sections in vivid colors.
Children are constantly being told to follow rules, but art is often an area where they are completely free. To show them that art doesn't have to follow any rules, show them paintings by abstract artists such as Jackson Pollack or Sonia Delauney. Then encourage them to create their own abstract works. For a Delauney-style painting, have them create a painting filled with huge, colorful circles. For Pollack, throw down some newspaper, put a canvas on top and let them explore using paint by dripping or splashing or even flinging paint onto the paper. As Pollack said, "the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating." So children can see that art doesn't have to illustrate, but can just be expressive.
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.
In the end, the most important thing your children will learn is that art truly has no limit. Whatever a child thinks is beautiful, striking or captivating in some way can be the basis for an amazing art project.
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Kate Halfey loves writing about art projects for kids. For further information about different styles of arts such as Joan Miro for kids art projects or to find Kandinsky circle painting projects, please check out the ArtProjectsForKids.org site now.
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