Short And Sweet
Art Projects
About Short and Sweet Art Projects
Maybe it's a rainy day and your kids are wondering what to do. Perhaps your senior group has finally raffled off the quilt you worked on for six months and now they need to produce some great stuff for the next bazaar...
Maybe you want to indulge in a little creativity, but don't feel like committing to a class or a lot of lessons, OR maybe you've never done anything creative before and want to try a little something to get your creative juices flowing. A Short and Sweet Art Project is waiting for you...
My SHORT AND SWEET ART PROJECTS take from one to three hours to do. You'll have fun following the simple instructions, watching the skill demonstration and creating a beautiful Project! Try one project, try many! And, of course, these Short and Sweet Art Projects are always free to do.
Here is a listing of all of the Short and Sweet Art Projects available for you absolutely FREE!
Create A Greeting Card
Make A Clothes Horse
Make A Pinch Pot And Paint It
Make A Paper Quilt
Make A Patchwork Horse
Draw A Flower With Conte Crayon
Draw A Flower With Colored Pencils
Draw A Flower With Oil Pastels
Draw A Flower With Pencil
Draw A Horse With Pencil
Learning The Blot Painting Technique
Paint A Tree With Water Color
Paint Water Color People
Paint A Landscape With Water Color
Draw and Paint A Horse Using Water Color and Pencil
Click here for your FREE Short and Sweet Art Projects Page!
Real Feedback
I recently visitied your website and saw all of the great work you are doing! This is wonderful.
I would love to learn how to draw and was looking at a link to your basic drawing classes. I am hoping that you could send me the coarse information.
Also, I have a daughter who is very interested in art. She is being homeschooled. She has self-taught herself in painting but I am also looking for any coarse work that I could introduce to her studies as well.
Ericka J.
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I just watched your wonderful oil pastel on a photo and your shading video. Thanks so much! I have been struggling with how to work with oil pastels- I have taken some recreational art classes- but the blending on the paper is hard for me to fathom. If you still offer your oil pastel class I would be very interested.
Shelley
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Hello again Lois, Sorry I forgot to add that I can draw a bit & that all my art is done by mouth so I’ll need basic, easy instruction that are quick to work with. I hope this doesn’t make things to difficult & I understand if you are unable to help me. Thanks Again Katt
Dear Lois, Thank you for this. I will approach these tasks over the weekend & let you know how I go. Again I thank you for giving me the time to try & achieve my art.
katt
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I work for a Recreation & Parks Department and I was online searching for some art projects to use for our summer day camp program (and secretly for myself to satisfy the little artist in me!) I look forward to taking some of your online lessons.
Deb
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Hello, I have been drawing portraits lately and feel your crosshatching method has been very helpful! My shading has improved immensely!I will work on the line drawing as soon as I have time! Rose
Notes on Making Videos......
I look back at the first videos I made several years ago and I admit I'm amused at my lengthy dialogues I attached to various demonstrations of painting, drawing and printmaking.
At the onset, I pretty much applied my teaching style to my videos, figuring that a similar method of delivery which worked well with my students would be good for YouTube.
Over the years, however, I have refined my art lesson videos, making them shorter and more concentrated in instruction. I have also migrated away from the lengthy dialogues and let my annotations on the videos explain what I am doing. In this way, I think, hearing impaired viewers will garner just as much from my videos as those that can hear just fine.
Using annotations drew criticisms from some viewers who really wanted a dialogue and description of what I was doing. So, then I quit doing just annotations and went back to talking.
I feel I am still in the process of refinement with my videos. I am often envious of videos with a lot of great music and visuals that I, with my little Flip camcorder, can't produce. Then I think that educational videos need not have a lot of bells and whistles. What they do have to have, and what I strive for is good, simple, solid, information-rich instruction.
Into my sixth years doing YouTube videos, one rather disconcerting factor appears when I review my past videos. I am getting older, AND older. I can actually see myself aging in my videos. What a legacy!
Lois DeWitt