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GOING FISHING. A Stop motion Animation by Guldies

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Meet the Artist: Rachel Jones | Tate Kids

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"Do it because you're thinking it and feeling it and it's got to be expressed. So just get on with it." These are the words of British Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce on the creation of art.

Boyce is one of the many artists included in the book Women's Art Work: More Than 30 Female Artists Who Changed the World. The book's illustrations help introduce these Five Women Artists' Stories in the Tate Kids video above.

Featured artists include Boyce, British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and Indian bookmaker and photographer Dayanita Singh. They are just a few of the book's biographies on women who have changed the art world through their questions, explorations, and creations.

Watch these related videos next:
* Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room
* Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend
* Artist Shantell Martin: Follow the Pen
* The Weather Artist: Chasing Storms With Sculpture
* Ceramic artist Michelle Erickson recreates an 18th-century agateware teapot

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Sonia Boyce, Barbara Hepworth, Yayoi Kusama, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Dayanita Singh: 5 Women Artists' Stories

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"Do it because you're thinking it and feeling it and it's got to be expressed. So just get on with it." These are the words of British Afro-Caribbean

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How To Make Origami Paper from Scrap Paper or Junk Mail

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How To Make Origami Paper from Scrap Paper or Junk Mail

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How to make square origami paper from junk mail and scraps!

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SafeYouTube lets you share videos on YouTube easily, without distracting third-party content or advertisements.

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SafeYouTube lets you share videos on YouTube easily, without distracting third-party content or advertisements.

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Try out conceptual artist Sol Lewitt's direction for his Wall Drawing 797 (but use paper, not your wall!)

1. With a black marker make an irregular black line at the top of the page.
2. With a red marker try to copy it without touching.
3. Do the same with a yellow marker.
4. Do the same with a blue marker.  Continue until the bottom of the page.  Use other mediums if you don’t have markers.

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Can the Google robot recognize your drawing in less than 20 seconds?

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Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles? See how well it does with your drawings and help teach it, just by playing.

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Use this chart from artist Jarett Lerner to get you started!

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Try out this fun online drawing app. You can export and save your drawings - share them with me!

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Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.

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A still life drawing is a picture of objects that have been arranged and chosen by the artist. This is a fun drawing activity you can do with your family!

Step 1: Have everyone in your family choose an object that is important to them.

Step 2:  Find a place to arrange your objects where everyone can see them.  As a group, decide on the best arrangement.

Step 3:  Draw your still-life!

Step 4:  Compare your drawing to your family members.  What is the same and what is different?

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This can be a: treasure map.  A map of your home.  A map of an invented world.  A map of your favorite place.  A map of a trip you once took, or hope to take someday.

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Did you know that an eraser can do more than fix mistakes?  It is also a drawing tool!  Watch the video to learn how to make your own eraser drawing.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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You will need:

a piece of paper

a pencil or peeled crayon

Your challenge today is to search your home for interesting textures and then make a rubbing.

place your paper on top of the surface.

rub gently with the side of your pencil or the side of a peeled crayon.

How many different textures can you add to one paper?

Some places that I like to find texture are: bottoms of my shoes, kitchen tools, the recycling bin, leaves, coins, wood, books, toys.

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Watch this video to see how!

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Recreate a famous work of art using items you have around your house!
The rules:

1. Choose your favorite artwork.

2. Find 3 (or more) objects around your house.

3. Re-create the artwork using those objects (or pets, or people!) Get creative!  Pay attention to position, lighting, colors and facial expressions.

4. Take a photo and share with Ms. Lockwood.  If you can, share a picture of the artwork you copied (or send me the title and artist and I’ll find the image)

You can find great artwork at these art museum sites:

MoMA Kids

Met Kids

Tate Kids Explore

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In honor of Earth Day (April 22) and International Draw A Bird Day (April 8), today your challenge is to create a bird!  You can draw it or make it out of another material (collage, recycled materials, Legos, blocks, food...anything you can think of!). Artist Inspiration: John James Audubon.

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Go outside and collect whatever items you see - small rocks, pieces of grass, leaves, pinecones, etc.  Using these materials, create a work of art that lives outside.
Artist Inspiration: Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy (1956) : Land art and environmental art

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Every Friday at 1:00, the Minneapolis Institute of Art is holding a free virtual art class using materials found at home.

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In consideration of the health and welfare of visitors, volunteers, and staff, Mia is temporarily closed to the public. Learn more here. Close Alert

Join artists and educators for a live virtual open studio on Fridays at 1pm. Each week, you can tune in to learn a new art-making technique, featuring materials you're likely to have on hand around you!

Friday, April 17 at 1PMVirtual Open Studio: "Making Masks"Join us for another virtual open studio where you can learn how to sew a simple PPE face mask from household items. You'll need some fabric (like tshirts or sheets), sewing needle and thread, elastic or string.

Click here to join the virtual open studio.

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In consideration of the health and welfare of visitors, volunteers, and staff, Mia is temporarily closed to the public. Learn more here. Close Alert Join artists and educators for a live virtual open studio on Fridays at 1pm. Each week, you can tune in to learn a new art-making technique, featuring materials you're likely to have on hand around you!

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Pick some of your favorite books and draw them!

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You can draw the books you are currently reading, or you can draw your favorite books using whatever medium you wish!

Summer Pierre

Not only books, but copies of books have their fates.

-Walter Benjamin

Disegna i tuoi libri

Puoi disegnare i libri che stai leggendo oppure puoi disegnare i tuoi libri preferiti usando qualsiasi strumento tu voglia!
Summer Pierre

Non solo i libri, ma le singole copie dei libri hanno un loro destino.

-Walter Benjamin

Italian translation by/Traduzione italiana di Monica Guerra

Dessine tes livres

Tu peux dessiner les livres que tu lis en ce moment ou tes livres préférés en utilisant la technique de ton choix !
Summer Pierre
" Ce ne sont pas tant les livres que les exemplaires qui ont leur destin. "

- Walter Benjamin

French translation by/Traduction française d'Oriana Weyer

Zeichne deine Bücher

Du kannst entweder die Bücher zeichnen, die du gerade liest, oder die, die du besonders magst. Benutze dafür das Zeichengerät deiner Wahl!

Recherchen:

Summer Pierre

„Sowohl Bücher als auch Exemplare haben ihre Schicksale."

Walter Benjamin

German translation by Heike Bräutigam

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Draw your Books - Exploration of the Day

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You can draw the books you are currently reading, or you can draw your favorite books using whatever medium you wish! Summer Pierre Jane Mount Not only books, but copies of books have their fates. -Walter Benjamin Disegna i tuoi libri Puoi disegnare i libri che stai legg

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You will need:

thick construction paper or cardstock

crayons - any color and black

a toothpick or paperclip

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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Follow along with Nina, age 9, and Ruby, age 8, and learn how to make scratch art using crayons. Materials: card stock crayons paper clip or toothpick Instructions: Use light-colored crayons to completely cover the card stock. You may want to make a striped or geometric pattern.

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Today we’re going to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art  (The Met) in New York City!  This is one of the most famous art museums in the world.  Go here and click anywhere on the map to view an artwork.

Learn more about the artwork you chose.  Then, click on the “CREATE” tab for a drawing activity inspired by the work of art.

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Today’s inspiration is artist Louise Nevelson, who is famous for her large sculptures made of wood and other materials she found on the streets of New York.  Her sculptures are assemblages because they are assembled from found objects that she put together.  She also used only a single color to paint her sculptures.  You can learn more about her sculpture Black Wall here: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/black-wall-louise-nevelson
Today, you are going to make your own assemblage using items you find around your house.

1. Choose your favorite color

2. Collect as many items of that color you can find

3. Arrange the objects in an interesting way.

4. Take a picture of your assemblage!

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Invent your own machine.  What does it do?  How does it work? You can draw your machine or build it out of blocks, Legos, or other materials you have around your house!

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in NYC

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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#MetKids is a digital feature made for, with, and by kids.

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Look at the painting closely. With someone in your family, take turns telling a story about this artwork by Giorgio de Chirico. Then draw a scene from your story, showing what might happen next.

to see it bigger, go here!
https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/1/95

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Print out the prompts below. (If you don't have a printer then write them out). Cut out the prompts. Put then in a bowl. Then pick them randomly to create a drawing. You can choose as many as you like. Let the drawing tell you when it is finished.
Random drawing prompts (printable pdf)

"You must set about it more slowly, almost stupidly, force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colorless."

-Georges Perec

Disegno casuale

Stampa le istruzioni sotto. (Se non hai una stampante, scrivile). Ritagliale. Metti i foglietti in una ciotola. Pescali a caso per realizzare un disegno. Puoi sceglierne quanti desideri. Lascia che il disegno ti dica quando è finito.
Disegna (pdf)

"Devi iniziare a farlo più lentamente, quasi scioccamente, sforzarti di scrivere ciò che non è interessante, ciò che è più ovvio, più comune, più incolore."

-Georges Perec

Italian translation by/Traduzione italiana di Monica Guerra

Dessin aléatoire

Imprime les instructions ci-dessous (si tu n'as pas d'imprimante, recopie-les). Découpe les instructions, mets-les dans un bol, puis pioche-les au hasard pour réaliser un dessin. Tu peux en choisir autant que tu veux. Laisse le dessin te dire quand il est terminé.
Instructions Dessin aléatoire

" Il faut y aller plus doucement, presque bêtement. Se forcer à écrire ce qui n'a pas d'intérêt, ce qui est le plus évident, le plus commun, le plus terne. "

- Georges Perec

French translation by/Traduction française d'Oriana Weyer

Zeichnen nach dem Zufallsprinzip

Druck die Anleitungen unten aus. (Falls du keinen Drucker hast, dann schreib sie ab.) Schneid die Anleitungen aus. Wirf sie in eine Schüssel. Zieh dann blind welche, um eine Zeichnung nach dem Zufallsprinzip zu machen. Du kannst so viele ziehen, wie du magst. Die Zeichnung soll dir selbst verraten, wenn sie fertig ist.

Zeichnen nach dem Zufallsprinzip Anleitungen

„Man muss behutsamer vorgehen, fast naiv. Sich zwingen, das zu schreiben, was ohne Bedeutung ist, das, was das Selbstverständlichste, das Allgemeinste, das Glanzloseste ist."
Georges Perec in Träume von Räumen

German translation by/Deutsche Übersetzung von Heike Bräutigam

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Print out the prompts below. (If you don't have a printer then write them out). Cut out the prompts. Put then in a bowl. Then pick them randomly to create a drawing. You can choose as many as you like. Let the drawing tell you when it is fi

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Build a city or town using items from your recycling - plastic bottles, containers, cardboard boxes, toilet paper tubes, bottle caps, etc etc.  (Make sure it’s okay with an adult first!)  Use crayons/markers/collage to decorate your city and add details.  If you have small toys like Lego people, cars, animals etc add them to your city!!

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Gather some small objects around your home.  On a round plate, make as many different faces and expressions as you can!  Try:

a sad face

a happy face

a surprised face

a worried face

a frightened face

an exhausted face

a disgusted face

a laughing face

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The Tate Museum in London

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Play free games and quizzes, find art activities, explore homework help and share your art with Tate Kids. The best art website for kids.

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Pour ½ cup of dry coffee grounds into a pan, tray or shallow dish.  Smooth it over.  With your fingers or another utensil, like a fork or pencil, make a drawing.

What can you create?  How is this different from drawing with a pencil and paper?

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Many artists have created art by wrapping an object in a material like fabric or plastic.  For example, in 1995 the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped an entire building in Germany for 2 weeks!

Your art challenge is to make a sculpture by wrapping an object.  You will need:

a piece of fabric (or something like tinfoil or plastic wrap)

string, tape (or both!)

an interesting object of any size

Wrap your object in the fabric.  Secure it with tape and string.

How has your object changed?  If you want, draw your object before and after it was wrapped.

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The idea

Lots of things can be wrapped up from buildings to cars...

A covered car © Sarah Sanders

A covered building © Sarah Sanders

Textiles can be draped, hung and stretched over objects. This makes new, mysterious shapes.

Artists like Christo and Jeanne-Claude enjoy using textiles in their work too. Look at this enormous artwork called Wrapped Reichstag.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1995 Christo Source: christojeanneclaude.net

The Reichstag building is in Berlin and it's under all that cloth! It took 100,000 square meters of silvery fabric and over fifteen kilometers (about 9 miles) of blue ropes to wrap this up! The artwork was allowed to stay for two weeks in the summer of 1995.

What an incredible sight it must have been!

The plan

You are going to make your own artworks using stretched textiles and found objects.

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Lots of things can be wrapped up from buildings to cars... Textiles can be draped, hung and stretched over objects. This makes new, mysterious shapes. Artists like Christo and Jeanne-Claude enjoy using textiles in their work too. Look at this enormous artwork called Wrapped Reichstag.

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You will need 3 ingredients: baking soda, cornstarch and water, plus a ziplock baggie, tupperware or other airtight container to keep your clay moist until you use it.  **Make sure you have a parent/guardian supervise this project, as it involves using the stove!**

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3 ingredient Modeling clay adapted by That Art Teacher.

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Today you are going to be an architect….and build a blanket fort! Grab some blankets, sheets and pillows and build your own fort.  How tall can you make it?  How wide?  How will you get inside?  What can you use to make it stable?  What will you put inside your fort?

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Step 1: Collect tiny objects that you find around your house: paper clips, pennies, Legos, dried beans, popcorn kernels, beads, etc.

Step 2:  On a piece of paper, trace a circle (I used the lid of a pot).  Don’t have paper big enough?  Cut up a brown paper grocery bag!

Step 3:  Starting at the center, arrange your materials in a pattern and work outwards.  Mandalas have radial symmetry meaning that top, bottom and each side are the same.

Step 4:  Take a picture of your mandala and share it with me!

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Take a walk around your home.  What artwork do you have at home that is important to you or your family?  Choose one piece of art to photograph and interview your family about.  Ask the following questions:

1. What is a piece of art that is important to our family that we can see in our home?

2. Who created the artwork?

3. About how old is it?

4. What materials is it made out of?

5. Where did our family get this artwork?

6. Why is this artwork important to our family?

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Draw life from a bug’s point of view. (Hint: before you draw, lie down on the floor to get some ideas about what life would look like if you were the size of an ant!)

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Create a drawing following these directions!

- Draw a fast line.

- Draw a bumpy line.

- Draw a line that is broken into pieces.

- Draw a sharp line.

- Draw dots.

- Close your eyes and draw large circles.

- Put your pencil in the opposite hand and take your pencil for a walk around the entire page.

- TWO HANDS: put a drawing tool in each hand and make lines that cross one another. Draw with both hands at the same time.

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Chose one of the how-to-draw videos and follow along!

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Art For Kids Hub - Art Lessons - How To Draw For Kids

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Welcome to Art For Kids Hub! Here you’ll find all kinds of art lessons for kids, including how to draw for kids, even painting and origami for kids.

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Every day at 1:00!

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Author and Illustrator Mo Willems has been awarded the American Library Association’s Caldecott Honor three times for his picture book illustration. Additionally, he is the recipient of two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors for his Elephant & Piggie early readers. Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards. His work has been exhibited around the world, including solo retrospectives at the High Museum in Atlanta and the New-York Historical Society. Over the last decade, Mo has written three musical theater works based on his books, two of which were commissioned and toured by the Kennedy Center.

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Draw what you see outside your window.

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Today, let’s explore texture.  Texture is the way that a surface feels.  Your challenge today is to go on a Texture Scavenger Hunt!  Look for items around your home.  Label your collection and send me a photo when you’re done!

Find something that feels:

soft

rough

smooth

bumpy

scratchy

slimy

hard

prickly

fluffy

**Bonus challenge - choose one of your items and draw it.  Try to show the texture using lines, repetition and pattern!**

A song about texture:

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Lyrics
Texture texture texture
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Texture

You can touch the surface of an object
And what exactly will you say?
Let's use words about how it feels
To describe texture today!

Texture texture texture
Texture texture texture
Texture texture texture
Texture

You can draw the surface of an object
In many different ways
Let's use line, value, and repetition
To show texture, today!

Texture texture texture
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Texture

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Draw yourself as an original superhero. What are your powers?