Today it’s Valentine’s day!  You can’t ‘not’ notice it!  Not even when you are single or alone (like me, my husband’s in Canada for ten days) or in love.
Maybe you don’t celebrate it at all and maybe you think it’s way too commercial! But this time of year, hearts are all around! So let’s take a closer look to those artists who did some Love is in the art projects!

Love is in the ART

I’m going to share some great artists today, who can inspire you to do ‘Love’ and ‘Heart’ projects in school or at home with your kids.
Hope you like them!

There’s so much love in the art! 😉

Jim Dine

The American Pop-art artist Jim Dine has a series of heart paintings.  He uses contrast in his work and is ideal to talk about warm and cool colors.

Romero Britto

The Brazilian artist Romero Britto also has Pop-art influences.  His hearts have a thick black border and often the hearts are divided in several compartments.  Inside the new shapes he draws patterns.
Kids love him because of his use of bright colors.

Picture from http://www.britto.com/front/fineartprints – for sale as print!

Peter Max

My personal favorite of Max’s paintins is this one where the two hearts become one… True love! 😉

Picture at: http://petermax.com/ For sale as printout at the same webshop.

Robert Indiana

Maybe the name doesn’t ring a bell, but the statue certainly will!  THE love sculpture!

You can also let the kids use other words like hope, luck, like, flow, moon, soft, …
And it doesn’t have to be a sculpture, it can be a drawing too!

Keith Haring

Let’s not forget our friend Keith Haring.  Know for his simplified figures and also a real pop-art artist.
He has several works of art where a heart is central!

The human figures are very easy to draw by children and his color use really appeals to them!

Burton Morris

And yes, yet another Pop-art artist who used hearts!   Burton Morris.
At the blog Kid’s artist you can find a step by step tutorial by Jacquelien how to make a collage just like Morris!

 

Chris Uphues

Hearts with faces!  That’s Chris Uphues!  This is a great project to talk about feelings and colors that go with certain feelings.
Big eyed hearts… the kids will love them for sure!

Peter Anton

Like clay more?  Than Peter Anton’s your man to talk about!  His giant chocolate boxes look so yummy! Looking at his work wil make you hungry!

Picture at http://www.peteranton.com/

 

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Animal projects keep doing it well in artclass! No wonder! Because animals are still great to look at! This online tool can turn your pupils into a wild animal!

The imaginary animal

The project ‘make a imaginary animal by combining parts of different animals’ is an old school project that still works very well in class. As I already said, children tend to love animal projects. Combining different parts isn’t always easy.

A couple of years back I found this site where kids can make an online self-portrait and turn that portrait into a wild version of themselves.
It’s even fun for adults! 😉

BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF: The wild animal you

So – you build an imaginary wild animal of yourself with this tool.
Best is that you start making a self-portrait.
Let the children make a puppet that really looks like them to begin with. You can let them change the gender, the hairdo and color, the shape and the color of the eyes and mouth. You even have some choice in clothes.

When the puppet is readey the kids can begin changing some parts of their body into wild animal parts! It’s really fun to do!

Short project

This is an ideal short project for fast workers or you can let them do this at home.

Sad

For the kids here in Belgium it’s a bit sad that the site is in English. The younger ones don’t get English, they start in 8th grade!
Lucky for us they are growing up in the digital time, so even the 7th graders tend to make it work.

Wild animal completely ready

When they are done, they can e-mail the finished portrait to their parents or surprise somebody else. …

Try it yourself??

Build your wild self website

You do need a flash player (yes, even this is oldschool! 😉 )

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Take care and see you soon!

Ilse

Selfie drawing on a smartphone template

The first project at the beginning of new school year for our sixth and seventh graders was to draw a selfie.  The link between art history and their living world is very easy to make this way!
For sure we always have some scared faces in front of us when we start talking about a self-portrait.  But step by step is is doable for everybody!

Selfies in art history: the self-portrait

We talked about self-portraits throughout history.  Rembrandt, Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh. (That’s the one with the ear, isn’t is miss?)

 

 

Drawing a face

To make a self-portrait you start by a regular portait that is shaped in one that looks like you.  The wiki-link under the picture can help you to explain how to draw a face in a few easy steps.

The how to draw a face wiki is very helpfull here!

Colored pencil

We practice colored pencil.  There are just a few kids that know that colored pencils can be used in more ways than just coloring.
Blending, cross hatching, structures,… are all new for most of them.

That’s why we practice coloring once more before we let the kids color their drawings!

 

From portrait to selfie drawing

We talked about how they could transform a portrait to a self-portrait.
* Change the facial shape.
* Change the hairdo.
* Use the right color of eyes.
* Accessories like glasses, favorite jewelry,…
* Ohters like scars, …

Free template smartphone to draw in:

They all got a template of a smartphone to draw in.  You are welcome to use this template, but please link back to Kreanimo and be sure to mention you downloaded it here!  Thanks!

Free smartphone template download.

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