Monthly art-history lessons for grown-ups reading along with kids.https://www.leapintoart.com/en-ushttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/edward-hopper/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/edward-hopper/Students explore Edward Hopper's soft realism—clean lines, dramatic light, lonely urban scenes—then paint a meaningful place on a canvas board.Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/lou-hirshman/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/lou-hirshman/Lou Hirshman built caricatures of public figures from found objects; make your own Constructions by arranging and gluing everyday items onto foam.Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georges-seurat/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georges-seurat/Georges Seurat and his Pointillism technique, where students dab tiny dots of pure color onto canvas boards to create their own optical-mixing painting.Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/njideka-crosby/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/njideka-crosby/Meet Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nigerian-American painter of layered collage scenes, then make your own mixed-media scene of an everyday moment from your life.Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/leonardo-da-vinci/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/leonardo-da-vinci/Leonardo da Vinci's life and the Mona Lisa's sfumato shading lead into a project where you sketch and label your own invention, thinking like him.Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/helen-frankenthaler/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/helen-frankenthaler/Helen Frankenthaler and the Color Field movement she pioneered, with a watercolor project deconstructing a favorite place into abstract fields of color.Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/mosaics/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/mosaics/Trace mosaics from Mesopotamian and Roman floors through sparkling Byzantine glass walls, then glue your own ungrouted tesserae onto a board.Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/wassily-kandinsky/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/wassily-kandinsky/Wassily Kandinsky, a father of abstract art, inspires a crayon-and-watercolor resist painting that turns music and feelings into line and color.Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/caravaggio/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/caravaggio/Caravaggio's chiaroscuro lighting and turbulent life set up a chalk-pastel project where you light a dramatic scene to lead the viewer's eye.Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/jean-michel-basquiat/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/jean-michel-basquiat/Jean-Michel Basquiat's short, influential career and a mixed-media graffiti project: sketch, color with markers, then layer pastels for bold highlights.Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/vincent-van-gogh/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/vincent-van-gogh/Vincent van Gogh's life and struggles, then paint alla prima in his style with thick, side-by-side strokes of harmonizing and contrasting color.Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/yayoi-kusama/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/yayoi-kusama/Yayoi Kusama's polka-dots, pumpkins, and infinity rooms inspire a mixed-media collage made with card stock, pastels, fabric scraps, and embellishments.Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/african-tribal-masks/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/african-tribal-masks/African tribal masks carry spiritual meaning and animal symbolism and shaped Cubism; students carve their own air-dry clay passport mask.Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/paolo-uccello/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/paolo-uccello/Paolo Uccello, the Late Gothic painter who pioneered perspective, anchors a project drawing a multi-figure story scene with a vanishing point and chalk.Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/mark-rothko/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/mark-rothko/Mark Rothko's life and color-field paintings inspire a taped watercolor project where kids blend multiform color fields with wet-on-wet, salt, and lifting.Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georgia-okeeffe/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georgia-okeeffe/Georgia O'Keeffe's life and American Modernist flower paintings, then kids make their own close-up O'Keeffian flowers with layered, blended oil pastels.Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/james-audubon/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/james-audubon/James Audubon's lifelike Birds of America watercolors inspire children to paint natural scenes and keep a pocket field book for sketching wildlife outside.Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/salvador-dali/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/salvador-dali/Salvador Dali's life and the symbolism of his surrealist paintings lead into a watercolor project where you paint your own dream-inspired scene.Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/roy-lichtenstein/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/roy-lichtenstein/Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop Art movement, then draw your own comic-style story panels outlined in sharpie and shaded with Ben-Day dots.Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georges-braque/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/georges-braque/Meet Georges Braque and the birth of Cubism with Picasso, then paint a still life from multiple viewpoints on canvas and add torn-paper collage.Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/louise-nevelson/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/louise-nevelson/Sculptor Louise Nevelson turned found wood and scraps into monochrome assemblage art; kids build their own assemblage boxes from charms, pasta, and card stock.Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/tommaso-masaccio/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/tommaso-masaccio/Meet Masaccio, the early Renaissance painter who pioneered perspective, then draw a profile portrait step by step and finish it in chalk.Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/henri-matisse/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/henri-matisse/Henri Matisse's life and cut-out collage technique, then make your own design by cutting and tearing colored paper and gluing the pieces into place.Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/edvard-munch/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/edvard-munch/Edvard Munch, Expressionist painter of The Scream; students make a pastel landscape or portrait that conveys inner emotion through bold color and line.Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/art-nouveau/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/art-nouveau/The Art Nouveau movement and its organic, nature-inspired designs, with a project where students sketch everyday objects redesigned to be more beautiful.Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/miquel-barcelo/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/miquel-barcelo/Spanish painter Miquel Barcelo inspires textured, sculptural paintings built on canvas board with joint compound, yarn, and fabric.Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/gustav-klimt/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/gustav-klimt/Explore Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's gilded, patterned style, then add metallic foil to a watercolor painting of your own design.Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/dmitri-prigov/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/dmitri-prigov/Dmitri Prigov, a leader of Soviet unofficial art, used poetry and newspaper installations to defy censorship; students make their own shaped books.Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/anna-mary-moses/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/anna-mary-moses/Self-taught folk painter Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Moses) and her busy country scenes inspire a colored-pencil drawing of a favorite family activity or holiday.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/peter-paul-rubens/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/peter-paul-rubens/Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens and his luminous portraits, plus a partner-portrait project drawn in chalk on dark paper to capture that inner glow.Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/katsushika-hokusai/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/katsushika-hokusai/Japanese ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai's life and woodblock prints, then carve your initial or a simple design into soft cork to make an inked stamp.Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/joan-miro/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/joan-miro/Joan Miro's life, Surrealist style, and grattage technique, plus a mixed-media project turning a random squiggle into a marker-and-watercolor painting.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/berthe-morisot/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/berthe-morisot/Berthe Morisot's life as an Impressionist painter, plus a mixed-media project layering pastels and textured impasto paint into a loose, quick everyday scene.Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/lorenzo-ghiberti/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/lorenzo-ghiberti/Lorenzo Ghiberti cast the Baptistery's bronze Gates of Paradise in Renaissance Florence; trace and emboss your own raised foil relief inspired by his doors.Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/faith-ringgold/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/faith-ringgold/Faith Ringgold pioneered painted story quilts; students make their own fabric-scrap quilts, adding crayon detail and text to tell a personal story.Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/claude-monet/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/claude-monet/Explore Claude Monet and the Impressionist movement, then paint a loose landscape using bold impasto strokes and dabs of color to capture fleeting light.Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/andy-warhol/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/andy-warhol/Andy Warhol's rise from shoe ads to Pop art silkscreens, then make six colorful variations on one image and mount them into your own Warhol-style piece.Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/frida-kahlo/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/frida-kahlo/Students explore Frida Kahlo's symbolic self-portraits, then paint their own from a mirror to capture both their likeness and inner feelings.Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/alexander-calder/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/alexander-calder/Meet Alexander Calder, inventor of the mobile, then build your own balanced mobiles and stabiles from pipe cleaners, fun foam, and beads.Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/constable-and-turner/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/constable-and-turner/Romantic painters John Constable and JMW Turner and their vivid new way of painting nature; students paint sweeping landscapes in pastel and watercolor.Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/paul-cezanne/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/paul-cezanne/Paul Cézanne, the Post-Impressionist who simplified nature into cylinders, spheres, and cones, paired with a still-life painting on canvas board project.Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/vermeer/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/vermeer/Meet Dutch Golden Age genre painter Johannes Vermeer and his light-filled scenes, then paint your own simple everyday scene with acrylics on tag board.Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/norman-rockwell/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/norman-rockwell/Profiles illustrator Norman Rockwell and his Saturday Evening Post covers, then students draw their own detailed crayon scenes that tell a story.Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/botticelli/https://www.leapintoart.com/lessons/botticelli/Meet early-Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his round tondo paintings, then create your own pastel tondo framed by a plate's rim.Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT