✨30 minutes funny craft tutorial for kids with velour paper - vase decor or a crown!? ✨😉🙃👑🏠⚱️🌷🌼❇️ ✨You will need 2 velour paper sheets (or any construction paper that you have handy, I just love softy touch of velour paper🙃), scissors, pencil, glue, and stapler.✨ https://youtu.be/ijx0QhYUfgo
Architectural illusions – kids fun!
Vase or Face? Shorter or longer? Watch the videos below! Nothing is impossible - try these quick 15 minute tasks with paper, scissors and markers! The first video shows vases... or funny heads in profile?! https://youtu.be/y6YD5z9TykE This video below shows Hallway illusion variation - believe it or not, both red lines are exactly the same … Continue reading Architectural illusions – kids fun!
Snowdrops time! Spring is here!
Snowdrops in watercolors was the first lesson this spring 🎨🖌️. We were studying different ways to draw snowdrops - the first video below shows the way to draw it using just watercolors on wet paper (and a pencil for a quick sketch). The second video below shows the way to do snowdrops in watercolors using … Continue reading Snowdrops time! Spring is here!
Architectural sketch
Water resistant liner architectural sketch task for mid and high school (ages 12 and up). Light, shadows & perspective study. Please see the video for some tips! https://youtu.be/QRGkvjwT34M
Basic animation for kids – jumping Ball
Animation tips - Timing and spacing between frames is what creates the illusion of movement in animation. We used 50 frames overall for the ball to move from the first point to the last. Timing involves the number of frames between poses. Overall timing was 2.5 seconds. This video shows the basic movement of the … Continue reading Basic animation for kids – jumping Ball
Basic animation for kids – Tiger
✨Basic animation task/study for kids - step-by-step Tiger drawing tutorial with markers and crayons and then using it as a guide to learn animation✨ https://youtu.be/G2sPJx9lxn0
Architecture time for kids! Spatial study with straws
Is it a city with skyscrapers or a rocky mountain chain, or, perhaps, a mysterious wood? Kids love to create at any age - it is never too early to develop their spatial imagination and help them to explore! As an architect, I love abstract compositions and environmental clusters. This project is a fun experiment … Continue reading Architecture time for kids! Spatial study with straws
Watercolor flowers for kids – 5 years and up
https://youtu.be/i3EVFCwZD0I Watercolor technique is one of the most beautiful, but at the same type challenging, technique. The only was to succeed in this medium is to practice, and practice every day, step by step, little by little. Lots of artists share their experience with watercolors and 99% of them agree, that practice and patience is … Continue reading Watercolor flowers for kids – 5 years and up
Fish pond drawing lesson for 4 years old and up!
https://youtu.be/GHujo_BywvA Today in class with kids we were drawing a Fish pond with color pencils (or crayons) & markers and dreaming of summer warmth! Kids used a watercolor paper, as it gives some nice texture, when you draw water with pencils or crayons. Below I posted step-by-step photo gallery of this class. Enjoy!!! 🙂
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