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Creative Bloq: Pencil Drawing Techniques: Pro Tips to Sharpen Your Skills
Twenty-seven techniques, from basic to fairly complex, are described to help artists better use pencils as an artistic medium.
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University of the Arts, London: Manuscripts at Universal Leonardo
This gallery of 22 excerpts from Leonardo's notebooks is accompanied by historical information and links to additional explorations of his interests in the forces of nature, light and vision, and imagination and invention. The drawings...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles
In this lesson, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Make Your Own Book of the Dead (Lesson Plan)
At this site from KinderArt students will learn about the Book of the Dead and its importance to Ancient Egyptian culture by creating their own Book of the Dead using colored pencils and scroll paper.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Cezanne's Still Lifes
Students will view film footage of Paul Cezanne's actual studio in Aix-en-Provence and compare objects they see to his drawings and paintings in the National Gallery of Art collection. By selecting and arranging objects of their choice,...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Drawing on Kenaf
In addition to describing the texture and uses of kenaf, a tree-free paper made from a plant related to cotton and okra, this tutorial provides a lesson in drawing on kenaf and choosing pencils.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art, Drawings
This site breaks down the art of drawing into six subcategories, each encompassing a different drawing medium. Mediums include chalk, charcoal, crayon, ink, metalpoint, and pencil. Each subcategory has many visual examples.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle (Lesson Plan)
KinderArt provides a site with information on how to teach young scholars art techniques. Students learn to recognize and identify foreground, midground and background. They also create a stylized drawing using simple shapes as well as...
Van Gogh Gallery
Vincent Van Gogh Gallery: Drawings
This site offers tremendous drawings by Vincent van Gogh that are listed in alphabetical order. Peruse through the listings and gaze upon some of the most creative works of art in history.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries:industrial Drawings at the Smithsonian: Doodles & Drafts
Drawing is a key element in an inventor's skill set. When it comes to the working out of new ideas, inventors turn to pencil and paper. Mixing art and science, this exhibition site showcases a collection of industrial drawings that...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Stuart Davis
Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.
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Web Gallery of Art: Study for a Wall Decoration With Stags
An image of "Study for a wall decoration with stags", created by Lucas the Younger Cranach in 1565 (Pen with brown ink, watercolour over pencil drawing, 210 x 285 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Study for a Wall Decoration With Foxes and Chickens
An image of "Study for a wall decoration with foxes and chickens", created by Lucas the Younger Cranach in 1565 (Pen with brown ink, watercolour over pencil drawing, 213 x 287 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Three Conspirators Swear an Oath on the Ruthli Meadow
An image of "The Three Conspirators Swear an Oath on the Ruthli Meadow", created by John Henry Fuseli in 1779 (Pen and sepia over pencil drawing, 414 x 345 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait
An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Asmus Jakob Carstens in 1784 (Pencil drawing, 332 x 208 mm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Winter
An image of "Winter", created by Jacques De Lajouez (Pen and brush, Indian ink and watercolour over preparatory pencil drawing, 274 x113 mm).
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Kids at Art: Drawing on Kenaf
In addition to describing the texture and uses of kenaf, a tree-free paper made from a plant related to cotton and okra, this tutorial provides a lesson in drawing on kenaf and choosing pencils.
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Kids at Art: Drawing on Kenaf
In addition to describing the texture and uses of kenaf, a tree-free paper made from a plant related to cotton and okra, this tutorial provides a lesson in drawing on kenaf and choosing pencils.
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Kids at Art: Drawing on Kenaf
In addition to describing the texture and uses of kenaf, a tree-free paper made from a plant related to cotton and okra, this tutorial provides a lesson in drawing on kenaf and choosing pencils.
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Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait as the Man of Sorrows
An image of "Self-Portrait as the Man of Sorrows", created by Albrecht Durer in 1522 (Drawing with lead pencil on blue-green primed paper, 408 x 290 mm).
EL Education
El Education: Drafts of a Cave Home
This entry shows the progression of the work of one student - from a 5th/6th grade classroom at the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts - of a series of cross-sectional illustrations of a prehistoric cave dwelling....
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Pope John Xxiii
A beautiful pencil drawing of Pope John XXIII. If all you need is an image -- go here!
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Pope John Xxiii: Portrait by Bernard Safran
A beautiful pencil drawing of Pope John XXIII. If all you need is an image -- go here!