In this Golden Road Arts video, Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason explains and demonstrates three easy to do art projects for children – or anyone with the inclination – that can be created with materials around the house. Most with young children may have...
Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason returns to her studio in this video to explain some simple and straightforward projects for students to do at home. Barbara again uses lines and shapes to demonstrate how lines can suggest movement in design, and she also...
In this lesson, we continue our theme of making art from materials you have in your home. Artist and educator Barbara Mason demonstrates a simple craft that allows children to both construct and create art using crayons, markers, paper, cardboard boxes, paper bags,...
Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason uses Color Wheel designs, colored with crayons, colored pencils, water soluble markers and watercolor paints to discuss why colors are more saturated based on the binder that holds them together when applied to paper or...
In this video, artist and printmaker Barbara Mason walks through the steps of drawing animals. All you need to follow along is a pencil and paper, and before you know it you will be able to draw many different animals. lesson-plan.pdf
Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason creates holiday themed art with paper, scissors and tape. While the theme is winter holidays, many of the ideas for garland or winter are applicable to the fall and winter seasons. In addition, garland of trees and animals...
In this video, artist and printmaker Barbara Mason demonstrates how to make your own cozy winter scenes using paper cut-outs that you can color in and glue together to make your own 3D picture. Everything in this video can be made with colored pencils or crayons,...
In this video, artist and printmaker Barbara Mason demonstrates how to use different colors and shapes to create visual rhythm. We then practice using visual rhythm by making bookmarks out of creative shapes we cut out ourselves. Everything in this video can be made...
Artist, printmaker and educator Barbara Mason demonstrates a simple - if slightly messy - method for teaching and reinforcing the lesson of Primary and Secondary colors with her grandsons Wes and Atticus. Barbara's belief is that art that is made experiential and...
In this video, artist and printmaker Barbara Mason demonstrates how to make art designs out of simply organizing parallel lines inside recognizable shapes. A heart, a cat, a hand or a box can be the beginning of artwork that provides the "optical illusion" of 3D...
Artist Barbara Mason welcomes her grandsons to the Golden Road studio to create salt paintings and to mix flour, salt and water to sculpt home-made playdough. Each of these art lessons requires hands-on involvement with the children, as you will see. However, the...
Artist, printmaker and educator Barbara Mason demonstrates two projects for children to make with regular household items. The first is an example of how to make finger puppets using a story such as "The Three Little Pigs" as source material. The second is a lesson...
In this episode of Golden Road Arts lessons for children, Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason helps you draw a face in relationship to what you see – not how you have always been drawing faces. She helps you see your face and the faces of your friends and...
In this episode of making art from household items at home, we learn about collage and the ideas of "warm" and "cool" colors in art. Barbara provides you with two examples of collage that you can make at home using left over magazines or newspapers, a piece of paper,...
In this detailed lesson, Artist, Printmaker and Educator Barbara Mason demonstrates how to make tunnel books in two ways - from an original piece of your artwork or from coloring book drawings or artwork you cut out and assemble. Either way, you'll learn how to create...
This is a simple foil printing process for school children using a cardboard or mat board surface covered with raised objects including textured paper, corrugated cardboard, string or yarn or other soft raised objects glued or taped to the surface. The goal is the...
Artist and printmaker Barbara Mason discusses an art lesson for school children using lines and that includes an activity to make a small display folder as either a keepsake or as a classroom display including each child's work.
Artist, Printmaker and educator Barbara Mason demonstrates Scratchfoam printing as a classroom art activity on the desktop with a few simple tools. This project requires a few dedicated tools (such as brayers and water-soluble ink) that can be reused for other...