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Beginner Drawing Course (Grade 1+)
🍎 Video Art Lessons for Elementary Students
12 Art Projects Designed for Classrooms and Online Learning!
Beginner Drawing is a complete art program to empower teachers and homeschoolers to guide students to learn their art FUNdamentals! This 12 pack of online drawing projects is a full art course designed for kids to explore different drawing materials, techniques, and styles. Buy it once and get unlimited access!
Each module in this program is a new project that will introduce art concepts and techniques to explore the essential elements of art and principles of design, and how to use them throughout the creative process. Each lesson will show students how to complete a themed drawing project with step by step instructions to create meaningful artwork they are proud of!
Enjoy fun, engaging, and modern art projects with proven results!
☑️ Teach in-person and online seamlessly by sending the videos to your students.
☑️ Access different levels of art lessons so you can challenge your advanced students and support beginners who are struggling.
☑️ Unique NERD teaching method integrates art foundations with design thinking, allowing students to apply creativity to other fields of study.
☑️ Lessons are integrated with other school subjects for cross-curricular marks!
☑️ Supplemental step by step art techniques set the foundation for future creative freedom and success.
Teach and plan art lessons easily with the help of experts!
☑️ Lessons use basic art materials that are common and affordable — and include options for modification.
☑️ Pre-written scripts and instructions make online teaching a breeze!
☑️ Save time with expertly designed templates, worksheets and rubrics that you can easily modify.
☑️ Students may learn at their own pace, and those who are absent can review the lesson on their own time, pausing in between steps.
☑️ Teachers can learn art fundamentals with their students, and get more time to focus on supporting each individual’s creative journey.
✍️ 12 Drawing Projects for Beginner Artists
Engaging bite-sized video lessons designed to teach young artists drawing techniques and art concepts -- putting the FUN in learning Art FUNdamentals!
- How to Draw an Owl - learn how to draw anything by combining basic shapes
- Design a Floating Island - use your imagination to design a little paradise in the sky
- Character Self Portrait - learn how to draw a full body cartoon version of yourself
- Cake Pops - learn how to draw and decorate delicious desserts and shade a sphere
- Drawing Gijinkas - get creative by turning a non-human character into a human
- Van Gogh Flowers - learn how to draw a beautiful bouquet inspired by this famous artist
- Animal Race - illustrate animals operating vehicles to draw an action-packed scene
- Animal Crossing Character - explore character design inspired by a popular video game
- Helping the Earth - draw a diagram to spread awareness of the 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle
- Tree House Design - learn how to draw a tree and construct a cozy structure to play in
- Jurassic Park - draw a playground environment to host some ancient dinosaur visitors
- Pokemon Hybrid - learn about hybrids and how to combine two popular characters into one
👀 Preview a Video Art Lesson
Here is a sample of lesson 2 of 3 of drawing a "Jurassic" Park, which focuses on using shapes to construct different types of cartoon dinosaurs:
Learning Level: Primary - Junior Elementary (Grades 1-5)
Suitable for kids ages 6 - 10 who are looking to the build core, fundamental skills to develop their art experience. Each module blends step by step learning with theme-based projects to nurture imagination and design innovation. Beginner Drawing projects include learning how to draw animals, environments, people and objects. Students will have the creative freedom to customize their artwork and choose their own subject matter.
Note: Students younger than 6 learning asynchronously may need hands on adult / classroom supervision.
🙌 A Complete Teaching System to Support Each Art Lesson
Our video lessons are bite-sized and guided step by step from professional artists to accommodate shorter class periods and online learning. This course also comes with teaching resources for every project:
📺 Step by step bite sized videos - pause, speed up, slow down or replay the lessons
👩🏫 Proven and unique N.E.R.D. Teaching Methodology - for learning the creative process
🖥️ Templates for Blended Learning - copy and paste instructions into your online classroom
📝 Printable Assignments & Worksheets - distribute our handouts or post online assignments
💯 Grading Rubrics & Assessments - handy curriculum guidelines for easy marking
All Winged Canvas programs are designed to the Ontario Arts Curriculum standards, supplemented with teaching techniques and design thinking to nurture student success, confidence, and self-expression.
🎯 Unique & Proven Teaching Methodology
At Winged Canvas, all of our art programs are founded on our four pillars of learning:
All courses use our unique N.E.R.D. teaching methodology to teach the creative process with proven results — leading to more confidence, well-being and creative expression. Lessons teach art concepts including the essential elements of art and principles of design, as well as techniques such as sketching, composition, blending, shading, colour theory, and digital art.
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🎨 Simple Art Materials
Only basic drawing materials are needed, and art supplies may always be substituted, keeping it flexible and open! Here is a list of the essentials, most of which may already exist in your classroom:
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Pencil Sharpener
- Coloured Pencils
- Black Pen / Fineliner
- Markers (optional)
✊ YOU can change the life of a young artist, even with no art experience!
Every project in this course was thoughtfully planned and executed by professional art educators, then curated and edited into bite-sized modules with learning supports for teachers. Each video lesson was tested in live classes, and only the best lessons are curated into video modules containing bite-sized step by step lessons that are flexible enough for teachers to use all at once, or over the course of the semester.
🙌 100% Satisfaction Money Back Guarantee
We are so sure your students will enjoy their learning experience that we’ll give you your money back within 30 days if you are not fully satisfied. The value of this program speaks for itself -- buy this course once and get unlimited access to use them with future classes again and again!
👩🎨 About the Instructor
Arruniya Mohendran is a visual artist, passionate educator, and certified Ontario Teacher. She holds a bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University, and a Bachelor of Education at York University. She is the Education Supervisor at Winged Canvas, specializing in kids art classes, curriculum planning, and working with our education team and teaching partners to design world class online art enrichment programs. When Arruniya is not teaching, you can find her working on personal art (usually inspired by nature) or exploring the outdoors with friends and family.
🏫 About Winged Canvas
Winged Canvas is an online art school based in Ontario, Canada. Their online enrichment programs include live weekly classes, virtual camps, video courses and art mentorship taught by professional artists who are passionate educators. They also host online events, parties and custom art workshops for schools and community partners. Attending an art class has never been easier. Start learning from anywhere, and join a live class in seconds!
🏆 Voted Toronto’s Top Arts Educator in 2021 and 2022, Winged Canvas has 150K+ subscribers on YouTube and earned hundreds of 5 star reviews from happy parents. Their mission is to make art education easily accessible to everyone, ensuring that no child is left behind.
12 Modules
Drawing Gijinkas
In this module, students will learn about Gijinkas - which are human characters inspired by animal-like characters. Students will pull inspiration from their favourite characters, or follow along to design their own unique characters. Shapes and colours will be used to build their characters, and translate similar characteristics.
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