Art projects to help you learn, and grow your skills and artistic confidence
Draw and ellipse in easy steps A drawing lesson to teach you an easy way to draw an ellipse accurately and then enjoy a creative project exploring ellipses. Ellipses are part of everyday life – we all need to draw them well. Teaching students to draw an ellipses can get way too complicated and […]
Creating spatial depth An art lesson teaching you how to use shading and tone to create spatial depth using the principles of aerial perspective There are many ways artists create the illusion of depth and space in their drawing and paintings. To create a sense of space for your 3D objects to exist within […]
Creative line A drawing lesson teaching you how to use creative self-expressive line compared to descriptive line This project is about your unique creativity and individuality! It may change how you draw forever. I believe there are 2 strands to learning to draw well – technical drawing and creative drawing. We generally spend lots of […]
Shape and composition A art lesson teaching you how focus on negative space to help you improve your compositions Learn to see the objects, landscapes, people you draw as a series of flat shapes. All too often we find it difficult to compose our pictures unless we learn to see the objects within our pictures […]
Shading 3D objects A drawing lesson teaching you how to use shading and tone to create 3-dimensional looking objects The illusion of 3 dimensional objects and making them real-looking 3-dimensional space is an important skill. This project concentrates on teaching you how to develop your use of monochrome tone. You will learn to create shading […]
Real to abstract A drawing project about creating abstract artwork The de Stijl art movement at the turn of the 20th century believed that the abstract qualities they loved and used in their paintings expressed a new social order + harmony after the world-wide atrocities of the preceding era. Find out what you can learn […]
