You do know who Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello are, Right?

I was wondering if you had heard of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello. Are you thinking of these guys?

LOL 

I was watching some Animaniacs and they did that gag and said they are artists not turtles. It is the inspiration for this blog post. 

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Reinassance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art. 

He looked like this

Some famous works of his were his sculpture of David

and his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Leonardo... is not Leonardo DiCaprio even if he is super famous as well. Leonardo DaVinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

  He is famous for the Mona Lisa,

Inventing, 

 and his studies.

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

 Among his famous works is his painting of the Madonna. ( not the pop singer)

Donatello was an early Renaissance Italian Sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism. Some of his famous sculptures are St. George, 

and Annunciation

and St. Mark. 

I have a fun project coming up featuring some of these... stay tuned. 

The Renaissance must have been a wonderful creative time, so much of our worlds most prized art came from that time period. 

Love,Saige.

Video games, are they Art?

Video games creating involves artists that work with computers to create the visual world that you are playing in and the characters.

The Smithsonian Museum had an exhibit on the Art of Video Games.. On Kids.gov they have a video and the written text of the video, so if you can't get there you can see some peeks of it. How cool is that? It is now a traveling exhibit through 2016 so perhaps it will come to a museum near you.

You can read more about this cool exhibit here and find out where it is now and where it is headed. 

Art is really everywhere. 

Go make some of your own, Practice makes perfect!

Love,

Saige

Finishing the leaf

I am on a leaf kick, probably because where we live we don't see many nice one like you do farther north. They dry out before they fall here, and they are green, they are green, they are green then boom, brown. I do wish I lived where my Mom grew up she had the pleasure of the full spectrum of leaf color. Oh well... I some times get to see a yellow one, lol.

Here is another fun idea, finish the leaf. I once again found this at Art Projects for Kids. org. It is my new favorite blog.  Get your template here.

More Autum is near fun

We talked about line patterns when we were doing our Zendangle designs, and here is another fun project that is a more structured Zendangle.

I found this template on the Art Projects for Kids. Org website

You do a different design in each section of the leaf. I love how this looks. 

Get yours here.

Get permission to email  if you are a kid, and even if you are an adult reader, email me what you came up with and I will make a post of my reader art. Art is for sharing. 

Lemonhead103@ Verizon.net

Love, Saige