Mizz Mac Art’s Easy Art Projects #1

For those of you not aware- my mother and grandmother are both artists and art teachers. Well, my grandmother was an art teacher, still paints all the time. And my mother is still an art teacher over at Creative Alternative off of Pierce Avenue in Macon, Georgia.

God help me, I thought it would be a good idea to add my mother as a blogger to this site- especially with Law Momma and Josh being our new parent bloggers. So, we will be bringing you simple art projects each week that you can do with your kids!! It will be a miracle if Mom and I can survive this… I just had to tell her why she couldn’t upload a Word doc in to this for it to post….

Pray for us y’all…

Molly

Hey y’all! I’m Mizz Mac or really Gena McWilliams and I will be writing for you parents easy art lessons  you can create with your children at home. I am a teacher who taught art for 24 years at a private school and am now teaching at Creative Alternative, a local art school.

To begin let’s talk about just what drawing is. When we draw, we usually make any of 5 lines (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvy, or zigzag) or any combination to make 2 kinds of shapes (geometric or natural). Easy, right?

Now let’s try drawing some flowers. You will need white copy paper,  water-based markers or crayons, and maybe a pencil with eraser. You can google images of flowers if you don’t have access to any flowers from your yard. Camellias are still blooming at my house so let’s look at those.

Place a child’s hand on the paper to measure the size of the flower you may want to draw. Draw a curvy line making a cloud-like shape around the hand.  You have drawn the outside of the camellia! Look inside the flower. You will see lots of stamens in the middle of the flower. Draw bent lines with small ovals on the ends to make the stamens.

Draw another curvy line to make another cloud-like shape inside the flower to make another layer of petals. Color the flower petals usually red or pink and the stamens are usually yellow or light pink and yellow.

Now you can either draw more camellias, some bigger, some smaller, some the same size, some could go off the paper! Fill up the whole paper with camellias!

The background or white spaces left could be colored green or a dark green like the leaves of the camellia.

Here is an example:

And that’s it! Easy easy- and if you want more tips just comment and we will put them on the list for you.

Mizz Mac Art