LibGuides: Grade 8: Visual Arts: Creating and Presenting

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Seven Basic Concepts of Visual Art

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Gale OneFile: Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Magazines & journals supporting research in aras such as dance, drama, music, art, history and filmmaking.
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Colour Wheel

Creating and Presenting Visual Arts

Ontario Curriculum - Visual Arts Grade 8
Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two-
and three-dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies;

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Art is Fun!
Learn how to draw and paint with Thaneeya McArdle!
John Lovett's Art Lessons
John Lovett is a watercolor and mixedmedia artist. His website has a variety of lessons on different art techniques!

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Art using Mixed Media

Drawspace
Downloadable and Printable drawing lessons on a variety of subjects!
Drawing Tutorials and Techniques
This online article from Smashing Magazine contains links to many different drawing tutorials.
Acrylic Painting Tutorials
Tutorials for creating a variety of different acrylic paintings.

Beyond the Brush - Inventive Mixed Media Techniques
Learn new techniques for creating mixed media art. From the student art guide
Create Mixed Media
Learn different techniques for creating mixed media.
Mixed Media Ideas on Pinterest
Pinterest is home to some inventive ideas on creating mixed media art.
Mixed Media in Art

Printmaking Pinterest Tutorials
A series of printmaking tutorial pins from Pinterest.
Printmaking Lessons
Lessons in a variety of printmaking types from The Virtual Instructor.
Easy Relief Printmaking
A tutorial on how to do printmaking using Styrofoam meat trays.
Printmaking for Kids

Inspired by Literature

Check out the artwork in the picture book "The Mermaid's Lost Pearl" written and illustrated by the grade 8 students from Beattie School of the Arts in Kamloops B.C.

Barbara Reid is an award winning Canadian author who illustrated books with Plasticine art.