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Category: Artists
Artist: Jen Stark, painter & sculptor
Jen Stark is a contemporary artist who creates paintings, sculptures, installations, and public artworks. Here’s her website to see more of her artworks.
What do you notice about Jen Stark’s artwork? What do you like?
Here’s how to create a Jen Stark-inspired drip drawing:
Steps:
- Write your name and class on the back of your paper.
- Draw one section of wavy lines. Add more sections of wavy lines.
- Add more lines that follow your first line sections, make sure to leave space in between your lines.
- Trace your lines with markers.
- Add color with crayons, markers, colored pencils, oil pastels. You can add them in patterns (like white, black, white, black) or rainbow order.
- Optional: When done coloring, cut the paper to have a wavy edge.
- Have fun!
Artists: Rose Blue Eyes, Navajo Weaver
Rose Blue Eyes is a Navajo Weaver who creates traditional rugs. She engages and persists with a complex and challenging art form.
Artist: Adam Field, potter
Adam Field is a ceramic artist who makes large pieces of pottery based on traditional Korean “onggi” pottery.
Artist: Pablo Picasso, collages
Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, is famous for his Cubist paintings, like The Three Musicians.
He helped change the painting world when he incorporated paper into his paintings.
Artist: Gabriel Dawe, fiber artist
Artist: Henri Matisse, collage artist
Artist: Phil Hansen, Embrace the Shake
Artists have physical challenges, face creative blocks, and have limitations in many ways. Artist, Phil Hansen talks about experiencing all of these and how to keep going.
Still Life Artists: Cezanne, Van Gogh, Janet Fish
Artists observe the world around them and develop their drawing and painting skills by drawing what they see. The following artworks show three different styles of still life paintings: impressionist, post-impressionist, and realist.
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