Arts & Activities articles from April 2005

Arts & Activities archives from April 2005

Editor's note.(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... There are different ways to motivate students to paint with style and flair, and in this issue we have some winning projects that will do just that! High-school artists will be challenged by the lesson described in our Cover Story, "In The...

Painting the Impressionist Watercolor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... PAINTING THE IMPRESSIONIST WATERCOLOR (2004, $24.95) by Lee Boynton and Linda Gottlieb. Watson-Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. This is a "how-to-do-it" book designed for beginning and experienced artists. As such,...

Watercolor Basics and Experimental Watercolor.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... WATERCOLOR BASICS and EXPERIMENTAL WATERCOLOR. Two Videos/105 and 100 min./ $19.95 each. Level: High School and Above. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159. Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629, www.crystalproductions.com. Viewers will enjoy...

In Natural Light: Paintings by VaLoy Eaton.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... IN NATURAL LIGHT: Paintings by VaLoy Eaton (2003; $39.95), text by Vern G. Swanson, preface by Orrin G. Hatch. Gibbs Smith, Publisher, P.O. Box 667, Layton, UT 84041. VaLoy Eaton wrote: "I come from a family of pioneers, people who built...

Easy Watercolor: Learn to Express Yourself.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... EASY WATERCOLOR: Learn to Express Yourself (2003; $27.95), by Marcia Moses. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. The author, Marcia Moses, has a strong and passionate belief about art: "Desire is the...

Richeson & Co.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... Famous Painter Films, from RICHESON & CO., is dedicated to providing artists with inspiring, easy-to-follow, educational films from some of the finest artists of our time: Daniel Greene, Margaret Carter Baumgaertner, Stephen Quiller and Wende...

Barron's.(shop talk)(Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The newest in BARRON'S series of picture storybooks about famous artists and ordinary children is Rockwell: a Boy and His Dog. A fictional tale, based on a true incident in the lives of Nor man Rockwell and Scotty Ingrain, a boy who often posed...

Da Vinci Paint Co.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... DA VINCI PAINT CO. has been formulating reliable artists' colors since its beginning. It was the first manufacturer to give artists a complete line of highly lightfast colors. Today it continues to be the only company formulating all colors...

Get a Grip Inc.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... Canvas Grip--Artist's Brush and Tool Holder, from GET A GRIP INC., is a unique clip that attaches firmly to stretched canvas and allows the user to place their brushes, pencils and palette knives within convenient reach (photo of Canvas Grip in...

Silver Brush Limited.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... Daniel Greene has again asked SILVER BRUSH LIMITED to manufacturer a new professional artist brush set that represents the ultimate in what a portrait artist needs to start. The Complete Set features the Grand Prix[TM] series in filberts,...

Sargent Art, Inc.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... SARGENT ART, INC. has just introduced two new "Classic" Fine and Broad Tip Markers to its full line of felt-tip markers. These new classic markers are for "long-lasting" coloring, writing or drawing on a variety of surfaces. These new markers...

Simmons Art.(shop talk)
April 1, 2005... SIMMONS ART, producer of instructional art programs, announces a new series of painting lessons on DVD featuring artist/educator David Dunlop. Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop presents this engaging teacher both in his studio and in the...

Landscapes in Watercolor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... LANDSCAPES IN WATERCOLOR (2003, $24.95), by Theodora Philcox. AVA Publishing, Switzerland, distributed by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10016. Artists have long used the medium of watercolor to depict the subtle...

In the manner of ...(oil-painting)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2005... My oil-painting class was mostly made up of juniors and seniors who had completed at least one of our two introductory art classes, the first semester in which they learned the basics of drawing, design, color theory, sculpture,...

Painting watercolor fractions.(Integrating the curriculum)
April 1, 2005... A second-grade teacher at our school had asked for my help in preparing his students for the standardized math test they would soon be taking. There are fractions on the test and he would like to reinforce his students' skills with a hands-on...

Template magic.(Painting With Style And Flair)
April 1, 2005... These mouth-watering watercolor paintings of fruit were made possible with the use of templates. When I decided to attempt--yet again--to pull some dynamic paintings from my fourth- and fifth-graders, I first had to ask myself a few serious...

Young artist: Kristen Linder.(Painting With Style And Flair)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... My love affair with art was actually horn out of a fascination with color. There are so many things I observe in the world around me that capture my eye and just leave me with a feeling of awe. It's that feeling that continually leads me to...

Clip & save art notes.(self-portraits by Albrecht Durer)
April 1, 2005... ABOUT THIS SELF-PORTRAIT Few artists in 15th-century Germany painted self-portraits, but Albrecht Durer brought back with him many ideas from his travels, including self-portraits. And, next only to Rembrandt 100 years later, he painted...

Classroom use of the art print.(self-portraits)
April 1, 2005... Albrecht Durer (German; 1471.1528). Self-Portrait, 1498. Oil on wood, 20 1/2" x 16 1/2". Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. THINGS TO LEARN * While Durer was on his travels, he painted a number of small watercolors of places he had...

Trompe L'Oeil: the art of illusion.(Learning from Exhibitions)
April 1, 2005... For thousands of years, artists have attempted to create images that accurately reflect the world around them. In the medium of painting--to be specific--artists have endeavored, through talent and technique, to present subject matter in a...

Leaping lizards.(Painting With Style And Flair)
April 1, 2005... Drawing flowers, shoes, teddy bears and bowls of fruit all provide valuable learning experiences but, sometimes, students yearn for a bit of excitement that they just can't get from these oft-drawn objects. Even if your space is limited and...

Great portraits out of the blue.(Painting With Style And Flair)
April 1, 2005... This multi-media project began as a whim to gel my students "out of the box" (my classroom), and into an environment that might not be considered "arty." So... it was off to the school's cafetorium (cafeteria/auditorium). I had a...

Let's have a paint-along!(Painting With Style And Flair)
April 1, 2005... Anyone remember Archie Bunker's famous put-down of Edith? "Stiffle!" It reminds me of one of my greatest fears as an art educator: that I might somehow, inadvertently, stifle creativity with a lesson I've chosen. Visual arts teachers are meant...

Hawksbill sea turtle endangered animals unit.(Integrating the curriculum)
April 1, 2005... For many children the words "endangered animal" usually creates images of gigantic sea creatures or dinosaurs. Nonetheless, second-grade students usually understand the concept that many animals are at risk of becoming extinct, yet they have...

Exploring movement and rhythm with hard-edge painting.(Painting With Style And Fair)
April 1, 2005... My fourth-graders had been studying painting periods such as Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstractionism and Surrealism. We had looked at paintings by Wood, Miro, Picasso. Kandinsky, Matisse, van Gogh and Renoir. The...