You ARE an Artist!
We are in birthday season here at Hodgepodge! In honor of all birthdays, Nana shares a birthday cake chalk pastel art tutorial in video form. It is simple art lesson and fun for all ages! Art in just FIVE minutes! If you have been looking to add the joy of art to your days, try this! Beautiful results in a short amount of time encourage
A lemon is just so refreshing! So we thought that a lemon chalk art tutorial would be a wonderful thing to enjoy any time of the year. Now a lemon is a fairly simple shape. You can sketch a whole lemon or a lemon slice. We did both. This tutorial is wide open to possibilities. Of course the lemon is yellow. But you might want
In honor of the Masters Golf tournament and all the blooming azaleas there in Augusta, Georgia (and beautiful azaleas in our own backyard), Nana offers you an Azalea Video Chalk Art Tutorial! Azalea Video Chalk Art Tutorial We have quite a range of ages in this video – from ages 12 down to three. When you are using your chalks, feel free to add your
With a nod toward spring time sports and also painting a pastel that would be appreciated by boys and girls alike, my students and I have enjoyed working on a baseball and bat chalk pastel tutorial! Baseball and Bat Chalk Pastel Tutorial This is very simple and can be completed in about 15-20 minutes with only four steps! >Download your free Baseball and Bat Chalk
Every spring we look forward to the beautiful pink of the front yard redbud tree. We realized that many of our fellow artists might have a love of the redbud tree as well so we knew it was time for a redbud tree chalk pastel art tutorial! Redbud Tree Chalk Pastel Art Tutorial Chalk pastel art supplies needed: light blue construction paper. Brown, pink, green
Today we are going to paint an awesome dragon. A How to Train Your Dragon art tutorial with Toothless! Toothless is a Night Fury dragon, and has a strong, sleek body that is black as night, and his eyes glow in the dark just like a cat’s eyes. He has massive, strong wings that carry him far up in the clouds. This painting is not
Now and then we like to enjoy a tutorial in the style of a particular artist. Today, we celebrate the popular 20th century artist, Norman Rockwell. His birthday is February 3, 1894. He is known for his paintings of every day American life, portraits of famous Americans, plus funny, beautiful and nostalgic scenes of family times. For you, a Norman Rockwell Chalk Art Tutorial. In
It has been most wintry in our southern part of the country these days. So we appreciated the toasty feel of this fireplace pastels tutorial. A cozy kind of art lesson from Nana! Fireplace: A Pastels Tutorial First, gather your supplies, along with your colors. Nana sketched off the steps for us, as shown above. We discussed the look of brick. How the colors blend
