Beginners Drawing & Painting Art Inspired by Famous Artists!

Explore the life and art of Pablo Picasso, from his Spanish roots and early drawings to Cubism and light drawings, with over 1800 paintings and 1200 sculptures.

Explore a drawing and watercolor project inspired by Picasso, and follow step-by-step guidance on supplies: watercolor paper, paints, brushes, water, oil pastel or black crayon, and a paper towel.

Create a cubist fruit stand in the style of Picasso, using straight lines to form a plate on a table and angular fruit like pears, apples, and bananas.

Wake up your paints with a drop of water to help them flow as you paint a bright still-life of fruit on a plate, with leaves and a table.

Create a Pablo Picasso inspired cubist abstract portrait for kids, a beginner-friendly project with no drawing experience, using white paper, a permanent black marker, and color tools.

Explore Pablo Picasso's cubist portraits for beginners and observe how cubes and geometric shapes form abstract faces that do not resemble real life.

Explore coloring techniques for beginners using crayons or pencils, including pressure variations, hatching, scribble, overlapping color, gradients, and blending to enrich your project.

Learn to create an abstract cubist portrait by building a large face with ears, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, neck, shoulders, and hair, then color in a future lesson.

Color a cubist style portrait with colored pencils or crayons, using hatching, overlapping, and gradient techniques from dark to light. Then tidy your crayons away for next time.

Explore Romero Britto's self-taught, resourceful path from Brazil to Florida, and how his bold colors and cubist-pop artworks express hope, dreams, and happiness.

Begin a drawing and watercolor painting project to create a patterned dog inspired by Romero Brito, and gather watercolor paper, paints, water, pencils, erasers, brushes, and black acrylic for outlining.

Learn to draw a cartoon pop art puppy by centering design, shaping ears, eyes, nose, and tongue, then pattern body with circles and stripes using watercolor and black acrylic paint.

Mix black acrylic with water to create a flowing outline, then carefully cover pencil lines with thin vertical strokes before the painting dries and you apply watercolor.

Paint a dog design while softening paint with water, set a purple background with pink hearts, and use two brushes to stay in the lines, starting with orange.

Paint the background in purple with pink hearts, add green and blue at the bottom, and use small and large brushes with water to create light or vibrant colors.

Meet Berthe Morisot, a 19th-century impressionist who painted women, children, and domestic life in oil and other media, the only woman invited to hang at the Salon de Paris.

Begin a flower drawing and painting project inspired by Bert Marceau, gather white paper, tempera or acrylic paints, black and white, brushes, a pencil with eraser, paper towel, and palette.

Draw a still life by sketching large interconnected circular flowers above a rectangular vase on a table, add leaves, and mark centers to guide future painting.

Outline the design using a small flat brush held vertically to paint thin black lines, then use the back of the brush for a center dot and erase stray marks.

Erase stray lines to clean up the drawing, then paint white flowers with a touch of purple using a white-dominant, pastel palette, keeping colors streaky and away from black lines.

Explore Vasily Kandinsky's journey from impressionist influence to abstract art, revealing synesthesia and the music-art connection, blue as his favorite color, and his role as founding father of abstract art.

Begin a Kandinsky-inspired drawing and watercolor project with step-by-step guidance for beginners and gather supplies: watercolor paper, paints, brushes, water, pencil with eraser, ruler, oil pastels, and a paper towel.

Learn to create straight lines with a ruler to form four guide squares, then draw concentric circles inside, practicing eye-balled mids and a steady grip for beginners.

apply four concentric circles in four squares with colored dots at the center, then build larger circles in different colors before transitioning to watercolor painting.

Paint concentric circles and the backgrounds with watercolor, inspired by Kandinsky, preparing colors by adding water to each pan, then choose different colors for each ring.

Trace Frida Kahlo's life from polio to iconic self-portraits, highlighting bold colors, realism and symbolism, and the influence of Mexican folk art and portraits.

Learn to draw a Frida Kahlo self-portrait in watercolor. The lecture introduces the project and lists essential supplies like watercolor paper, paints, brushes, pencil, eraser, paper towel, and palette.

Learn to draw a Frida Kahlo portrait that fills most of the page. Block in eyebrows, nose, eyes, lips, and hoop earrings; add flowers, hair, a bird, and leaves.

Erase stray pencil lines to keep the flowers in front of Frida's head, then redraw any erased lines to preserve your design.

Outline the design by applying thinned black acrylic over pencil lines, using a small brush to create a round bird's-eye, then let it dry before applying watercolor.

Practice watercolor painting by mixing skin tones on a palette and applying them to Frida's face, neck, and ears, then paint the flowers, bird, clothing, leaves, and the final background.

Paint the leaves green, then choose a light blue background after testing turquoise, and finish Frida Kahlo's hair with a gray-black wash.

Embark on a Frida Kahlo inspired drawing and watercolor project, creating a still life with parrot and fruit, using watercolor paper, paints, brush, water, black crayon, pencil, and paper towel.

Draw a simple design with pencil, starting at the sheet center, using curved lines to form a watermelon, a parrot, and assorted fruits, with erasing steps to refine.

Select and erase pencil lines that cross fruit shapes, then fill where you erase by mistake. Practice deciding which lines to erase to prepare for adding color.

Outline the pencil lines with black oil pastel or black crayon, moving slowly to stay on the line. Be mindful of smearing and wipe excess pastel before applying watercolor.

Apply watercolor paints by adding water to each pan, then paint the bird and fruits with your chosen colors, and learn to lift excess paint with a paper towel.

Apply watercolor paints to the background and table, choosing colors freely. Start with the table in green and yellow, then add blue tones to the wall.

Gustav Klimt, a Viennese artist born in 1862, developed a golden period of gold leaf paintings that boosted his fame. He lived simply, creating thousands of sketches and paintings.

Explore how Gustav Klimt used gold leaf and intricate patterns in painting, then create a Klimt-inspired baby artwork featuring patchwork blankets, texture, and shimmering color.

Embark on a Klimt-inspired baby portrait project featuring patterns and gold accents, and gather white paper, a pencil, a permanent marker, and colored pencils or crayons to begin.

Learn how to draw a Gustav Klimt-inspired baby artwork with a flowing patchwork blanket, starting with a large circle and soft ruffles.

Choose and apply patterns to each section of the baby blanket, using the provided pattern sheet for ideas or your own designs, then display and reuse patterns across spaces.

Color the design with crayons, use light pink for the baby's cheeks, choose contrasting colors for flowers and background, and keep the background white to make the artwork pop.

Explore Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist whose early somber works gave way to Impressionist color and light in Paris, including The Potato Eaters and The Starry Night.

beginner-friendly project inspired by van gogh's sunflowers; follows step-by-step instructions using watercolor paper, permanent marker, water, brush, colored markers, and a paper towel.

Draw sunflowers as large circles above a curved line forming a vase, add petals and thick stems into the vase, place a table beneath, and color later.

Outline sunflower petals and stems with thick brown, orange, yellow, and green lines; avoid filling spaces, and prepare for the watercolor turn inspired by Van Gogh's sunflowers.

Turn marker drawings into watercolor by applying water with a brush, turning markers into watercolor paint. Begin with yellow, then orange, green, red, and brown for flowing floral designs.