Curated Video
Composition
Follow along with the artist to learn how to create a viewfinder from a piece of paper. Use your viewfinder in future artistic endeavors to find the most pleasing of compositions based on your subject matter.
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Square-by-Square Drawing
This video demonstrates how to transfer information square by square from a reference image to a new surface using the grid transfer process.
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Creating Grids
This video demonstrates how to create a one-inch square grid over a new surface using a ruler and pencil.
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Blending Oil Pastels
In this video, you will review how oil pastels are applied and blended.
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Breath Support
This video demonstrates proper breath techniques and lip trill exercises.
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Working with Metal
This is a procedural video that will introduce students to working with metal as a material. Repousse techniques will be included.
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Bubble Printing Demo
This is a procedural video where students will learn how to bubble paint.
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Using Plaster Strips to Sculpt
A procedural video showing students how to cut strips, wet them, and then smooth them over a form.
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Ghost Army
The WWII 23rd Headquarters Special Troops – otherwise known as the Ghost Army – was a top secret tactical deception unit deployed by the US Army during the Second World War to fool the enemy by any means necessary.
One Minute History
162 Political Cartoons - One Minute History
While the practice of using images to deliver political commentary can be traced back to the 16th century Protestant Reformation in Germany, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the first political cartoon in 1754. The cartoon — entitled...
Neuro Transmissions
How movie music manipulates your emotions
Have you ever watched a movie with the sound muted? It doesn’t really seem as impactful, even though the acting on screen is the same. It turns out that audio, and specifically music, plays a hugely important role in creating film as we...
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Blending Colored Pencils
Knowing how to blend specific art materials will help to create a gradual value scale in your form and overall artwork. This video will demonstrate how to blend oil colored pencils.
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Laying Out the Page
This video walks you through the steps of creating a six-panel page layout commonly used in comics.
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The Rule of Thirds
This video will help the student understand composition and framing as it relates to the rule of thirds.
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Overall Plot Summary
Can art really change people’s lives? Join us as we follow Vik Muniz’s artistic adventure into Brazil’s biggest dumpsite - Jardim Gramacho. There he will engage the help of several ‘catadores’ (recyclable material pickers) to make big,...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 3 Summary
After the shocking crime at the headquarters for the Association of Pickers, the catadores’ spirits are lifted by their amazing progress in the studio. But the hour of truth is approaching: how much will the portraits sell for? Vik...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 2 Summary
Vik and Fabio select their portrait candidates from among the catadores. Inspiration for the project starts to flow as the catadores embrace the process. When Vik gathers the catadores in his studio, the teamwork begins and a masterpiece...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 1 Summary
Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz has made it big in the US. Now he’s returning to Brazil for his next project: a portrait series using garbage. Watch as Vik enters Brazil’s biggest landfill and meets the people who work there: the...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Context
How did a British filmmaker fall in love with landfills? Waste Land is Lucy Walker’s love letter to Brazil’s most resourceful people - the catadores. Join us to find out what inspired her and how she linked up with Brazilian artist Vik...
Vlogbrothers
How Young Is History?
In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often, we think that a hundred years, or a...
Vlogbrothers
Why is the Disney "D" So Weird?
I am so bummed that this video isn't 15 minutes long. There is so much more to discuss. The Disney brand is fascinating, including the ways in which that brand reaches so far beyond any set of words or bands and into a deep cultural...
Indigo Artbox
German Expressionism & Blue Rider Group | 60 Second Art History Lesson
A brief look at German Expressionism and the Blue Rider Group and how artists like Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky can inspire us to make our own art.