Welcome to Our Art Tips and Tricks Homeschool Curriculum: Art Tips with Jan Bower

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Getting Started with Art Tips with Jan Bower, Our Homeschool Art Tips and Tricks Course

These short video clips offer art tips and tricks that can help homeschool art students improve at any level. All artists run into occasional roadblocks, and these professional art tips and tricks from award-winning portrait artist and illustrator Jan Bower teach students how to get past those hurdles. Art Tips with Jan Bower is not designed to be a stand-alone art course, but rather to be used as a followup or companion to Jan’s first course on SchoolhouseTeachers.com, Drawing with Realism.

Overview

28 tips
Includes video tips
Grades: 7th-12th

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan. Start with the Tip One, then check the videos off the list as you watch them.

Course Outline for Art Tips with Jan Bower, Our Homeschool Art Tips and Tricks Course

Twenty-eight art tips and tricks from professional artist Jan Bower teach homeschool art students how to get past common project hurdles.

Tip One: How to get unstuck on an art project
Tip Two: The key to great art
Tip Three: Getting your art noticed
Tip Four: Don’t let a project go stale
Tip Five: Blank canvas? No fear!
Tip Six: Almost finished? Take a new perspective look first.
Tip Seven: How to improve in your skills
Tip Eight: How to look for inspiration
Tip Nine: Tips for highlighting with graphite and charcoal
Tip Ten: Do you have smears on your artwork? Here’s one solution!
Tip Eleven: Don’t skip to the details!
Tip Twelve: Lighting tips
Tip Thirteen: Clean those brushes!
Tip Fourteen: More brush care tips
Tip Fifteen: Should you soak your brushes?
Tip Sixteen: Are you a pack rat? Here are some tips for how to use old brushes!
Tip Seventeen: Tips for making your flower stems look natural
Tip Eighteen: Making less-noticeable areas of your painting stand out
Tip Nineteen: Adding rhythm to your projects
Tip Twenty: The importance of highlights
Tip Twenty-One: Importance of focal points
Tip Twenty-Two: Using contrast to increase your focal point
Tip Twenty-Three: Using detail to increase your focal point
Tip Twenty-Four: Using edges to increase your focal point
Tip Twenty-Five: Love your projects!
Tip Twenty-Six: Developing style
Tip Twenty-Seven: Things aren’t always as they seem
Tip Twenty-Eight: Is your work a little drab? Here are some tips to help you out!

More About Art Tips with Jan Bower, Our Homeschool Art Tips and Tricks Course

Jan Bower of Drawing Success provides weekly art tips and tricks in a variety of mediums for homeschool students. These helpful and encouraging tips have been tried and proven true over Jan Bower’s 35-year career as a portrait artist, art teacher, book illustrator, and creator of the DVD art curriculum Drawing Success. Each short clip gives simple, practical advice and encouragement to make it a little easier for the student to find success.

Teens can develop their artistic skills and understanding even further with her new in-depth DVD course, Drawing Success. This systematic progression of 36 lessons gives fabulous insights into creating beautiful art that communicates powerfully. Drawing Success contains over 1200 minutes of video instruction on 10 DVDs, a thorough lesson book, and more. View the short video below for more information about Drawing Success. Enjoy Jan Bower’s artistic devotionals (called Drawing Closer), at www.JanBower.com.

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