Young Artists, ages 8 to 12, real life, colour and artists
Artists’ Ideas
One idea from each of a dozen artists across cultures, used in your own work.
- Level
- Easy to intermediate
- Lessons
- 6 in 4 units
- Time
- 2 hours of lessons
- Pace
- About four weeks
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Coming soon. The lessons in this course are still being made; the ones listed below are ready now.
The goal
What you’ll be able to draw
Take one idea about line, value, colour, composition or looking from each of a dozen artists across cultures, and use it in your own work.
How you’ll see the progress
A picture of your choice at the start and at the end, and your artist study.
Skills
- Planning a picture
- Colour
- Drawing from life
Pictures you’ll make
- Bruegel’s Busy Scene Project
- My Artist Study Project
4 units, 6 lessons
The syllabus
Unit 1 is free for everyone, so you can see how it feels first.
- 2 then and now
- 2 checkpoint
- 2 project
- Free
Unit 1
Looking and line
Patient lines, a few ink strokes, fur that follows its growth, fast sketches.
- 01 Then: A Picture of My Choice Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
- 02 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 2
Light and colour
Value without outlines, light at three times of day, colours side by side.
Lessons for this unit are on their way.
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Unit 3
Pictures and stories
A strong diagonal, animals in motion, and many stories in one picture.
- 01 Bruegel’s Busy Scene Project, 40 min Project 40 min
- 02 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 4
Your study
Copy a detail from an artist, then make a picture of your own with their idea.
- 01 My Artist Study Project, 40 min Project 40 min
- 02 Now: A Picture of My Choice Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
When you finish
A certificate for the fridge
Finish every lesson and Lapis makes a certificate to print or download, with the nickname, the course, the date and a drawing from it. Children get one too.
Lapis certificate
Artists’ Ideas
finished by
your nickname
and the date you finish
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