Here are some of my favorite video links:
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Organized by:
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Organized by:
- Channels
- Historical
- Instructional
- Inspirational
- Contemporary Artists
- Just For Fun
- DIY/How To
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Include a little writing across the curriculum with your videos. Feel free to use this form.
| Short Video Notes |
Spotlight:
Encourage Creativity - WHY Art is an important class - Great first video of the year!
What is the Big Deal About the History of Art - Another Great Intro Video.
Embrace the Shake - Phil Hanson (Great inspirational video for those that struggle)
Last video of the year - Alan Watts
Making Art - Brass Brother's Films (10-15 min ea.) Some artistic nudes in a few videos.
Growth Mindset Good Motivator
Anti-Bullying Messages:
To This Day - 7.36 m. It features the work of 12 animators, supported by 80 artists (middle school and up.)
Caught in the Crowd - 3.39 m. Music video, a bully's apology.
If you are in a Shell - 3.12 m. Color and Dance Theme (Advice for the bullied)
Bully Dance 10.23 m. No words, great for discussions with smaller children K-4th.
Middle School Football 3.41 m. Uplifting video for that age group.
Channels
Brown Paper Tutorials - Many quick art ed tutorials (Many great for subs too)
Art History Resource - Many Videos
National Film Board Canada - Many Films & Animation
Art Talks at Ted.com - Many Videos
Art History Videos - Several (Tice Art) Animated.
Khan Academy Art Channel
Art Documentaries (All under 16 minutes)
Aaron's Art Tips - Disney Professional's Advice. (Mostly Photoshop Tips) (MS/HS)
Origami Channel - Paper-folding AND some geometry videos
Animation (Process Oriented - how to)
The Daily Monster (Great idea for a quick exploration)
KQED (Elements & More)
Seb Lester Calligraphy
50 full length Art related movies free on Youtube. (NOT ALL are appropriate for all ages PREVIEW!)
Art Project Videos From PBS
CGI Meetup - Lots of animation - (NOT ALL are appropriate for all ages PREVIEW!)
Artrageous with Nate (Emmy award winning, for middle & high school)
Oscar Award Winning Shorts - (MUST Preview for appropriateness)
The Artist's Projects - MET Museum (Preview Please)
Kids Should See This - Short art related videos with cross content connections.
Art Prof Channel.
Pop Up Art Tutorial Channel
Studio Habits (Artists talk about working as artists)
Rachel Wintemberg Channel of Teaching Tips and Techniques
Stick Figure Art (Not really stick Figures, just a name) Nice quick tutorials!
Videos - Historical
Salvador Dali' on What's My Line
Salvador Dali Images - Antiques Roadshow
Andy Warhol Interview
Andy Warhol Soup Cans - Antiques Roadshow
Andy Warhol - Why he matters
Walt Disney & Salvador Dali Short Film
Duchamp's Fountain
Coin Making - History
Coin Manufacturing - Low Relief Sculpture
Art History in Song - By Hold Your horses
Art History in Song 2 - By Jane Zhang - Dust My Shoulders Off
Lost Art of Automatons
Joan Miro
Rene Magritte
Roy Lichtenstein
Keith Haring - Emerging Artist
Calder Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Calder Sculpture - Antiques Roadshow
Roy Lichtenstein - Antiques Roadshow
Andrew Wyeth Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Picasso, Rodin, & Matisse - Antiques Roadshow
Diego Rivera - Antiques Roadshow
Norman Rockwell Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Chuck Close Abstract Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Joseph Stella - Antiques Roadshow
Ancient Art - PBS "How Art Made The World"
Michelangelo's David - Context
Leonardo da Vinci's Drawing Materials
Art History - Brief Context
Wall-e Credits - Did you know they cover cave art through impressionism?
William Bentley (Snowflake Photographer)
Matisse Cut Outs at MoMA
Roy Lichtenstein at the Tate Modern - long
Andy Warhol - (Fleeting non-detailed nude at the 4.23 mark - Preview Please)
Expressionism
Face Jugs - Clay - African American History - PBS
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? 5.5 min.
Minimalism (vs Abstract Expressionism) VOX 6.29 min.
Maria Martinez Pottery
Videos - Instructional
Color: Elementary
Lines: Song - Elementary
The Art Element of Line (3 min)
9 Composition Tips (Photography but can be applied to 2D art)
Science of Symmetry
3 Primary Colors - Elementary
Depth through color change - Penn & Teller
Color Theory
What is Color
Tints & Shades Video
Color Song (Elementary) 2nd Song too
Complementary Colors
Monochromatic (Green)
Optical Illusions
Career in Makeup Design - a project.
What is Art? 60 Minutes
60 Minutes Art Story
What is Art? (Humor)
The Value of Art
Coin Manufacturing - Low Relief Sculpture
8 Art Elements - Introduction
Art Principles - Introduction
Art Principles - Animated
Balance - Short film, Oscar Winner
The Difference between Art and Craft - TED
Free-flow Sketching - Links to facebook
Giant Watercolor Painting - "Three Amigos"
Persian Calligraphy
Gridding Drawings
Gridding Portraits
Van Gogh & Math
Math, Art, & Pixar
Collaborating with children - Monsters info HERE
Why is Modern Art So Bad - Great intro for a writing assignment or debate.
What is Art by McHooots - Alternative to the above, appropriate for all levels._
Carving Candles - An old craft.
Gyotaku - Japanese Fish Printing
Japanese Woodblack Printing
Mexican Woodblock Printing
Vintage Disney Animation (& Collaboration)
Fractals
Creating an Adventure - (Good start for graphic novel unit)
Secret of Drawing #1 (AP Art Level) #2, #3, #4
The Mathematics of sidewalk illusions from TedEd
Relief Sculpture - Plaster on wallboard by Bernie Mitchell
100 Thank Yous - A project idea (Each student make 4?)
Chuck Jones & Loony Tunes Animation
How Ink Is Made
Flag Design - Good Design vs Bad Design (Light curses to public audience) TED.com
Good Design Matters
6 Portraits, One Man (Images and video)
Silver Smithing - Roman Cup
Understanding Abstraction - Inside Out
Ceramics from the vessel's point of view
Form and Engineering video
Copyright Law - with Disney clips
How paper umbrellas are made - 3 minutes
How Native American Pottery is made (With Mr. Rodgers) 13 min.
Kenichi Kanazawa: Color & Sound (3.13 min)
How Color Manipulates Emotion in Movies: (3.19 min.)
Printing like Andy Warhol (5.30 min)
SIMPLE Tessellations
Perspective Help
Perspective (Empire of the Eye, a series of videos)
One Point Perspective
One to Two point perspective
Two point perspective time lapse
City in two point perspective
Two Point Perspecive fantasy image
Inspirational Art Related
What is art for? Good video for discussion.
Do Schools Kill Creativity? By Ken Robinson
Self Image - Perfection?
Embrace the Shake - Phil Hanson* (link above too)
Digital Face 1
Digital Face 2
Self Image
Self Image (creepy)
Why is Creativity Important in Education?
Jim Carrey's Graduation Speech
Craft and the Military
The Creative Process (For writers but applies to all the arts)
Sargy Mann - Blind Painter
Glass Blowing in Gang Area (1 use of "N" word in context)
Perspective & Optics Related Video
Fiber Recycling in India
Ugly Dolls
The Shoemaker
Finished but not PERFECT (Excellent for perfectionist students)
Great for culturally related projects Heritage & DNA.
Origami: Science & Math (18 min).
Film as Art Buster Keaton. (8.3 m.)
Contemporary Artists
Jin Kim - Gray tone ceramics
Typewriter Artist
Pushpin Art
Shadow Art
Garbage Bag Art
Phil Hanson at Work making Burger Art
Theo Jansen "Living Sculptures"
Single Sheet Paper Cut Art
Reverse Graffiti
Dirt Painting
Shepard Fairey - Obama Hope Poster
Shepard Fairey - Different Than above
Money as Art
Arthur Ganson Moving Sculpture
Paper Artist/Designer
Ra Paulette Cave Sculptures
Moshe Safdie - Architect
KAWS
Clark Little - Photographer
Marchello Barenghi - Realistic Drawings: multi-media
Icheon Ceramics - Several Masters [More Here]
Marela Zacarias - Patterned sculpture (Window screen & joint compound)
Street Art - (2 Female Artists) Swoon & Olek
Eric Standley - Laser cut paper
Micro-Organism Art - Klaus Kemp, master of Victorian diatom arrangement
Bamboo Art - Japan
Glass Weaving by Markow & Norris
Bruce Riley - Resin Painter
Steven Spazuk - Painting with Fire and Smoke
Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces
Jack Storms - Glass Sculpture
Kendra Haste - Wire Sculptures
Yayoi Kusama - Installation Art
Karina Smigla-Bobinski - Installation art
Maggie Taylor - Digital Artist and photographer
Wood Mirror by Daniel Rozin
Art & Environment - Zaria Forman (7 min.)
Maurice Sendak - 1966 interview (15 min.) , Another 1985 (6 min), and 2013 (17 min)
Matthew Reinhart, Pop up book artist and engineer
Marc-Antoine Mathieu: Zooming in on a graphic novel. (4.03 min)
Architecture: Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder's tilting house
Titus Kaphar: Race in art (13 min)
Brian Dettmer: Book Sculpture Artist
Fun and Art Related
Silly Art Class
Dog Animation
Octopus Animation Winner
Shadow Movie - 26 minutes - Scary
Cube Animation
Taiwan Lantern Festival
Black Hole -A Short Film
Digital Photography - Altered images
Rube Goldberg Machine - OK Go
The Writing's on the Wall - OK Go
Breakfast with Rube Goldberg
Pop-Up Sculptures
Bob Ross Song - Great before first painting project
Rainbow Connection - Jason Mraz
Make a Squash Book - Origami
Mr. Bean- Science & Art
Duct Tape Art
A Girl Named Elastika - Animation with office supplies
How Crayons Are Made - With Mr. Rodgers
Marilyn Miller - Creation and Destruction, Foam Animation
Photoshop Make-over - By A-do-be'
Japanese Wax Food - how they make tempura & Lettuce
Ebru Art - From Turkey, images made from oil paint on water
The Maker - Award winning animation.
Listening to Color (Ted.com)
Traditional Animation a Tribute
Me+Her (Animated Cardboard)
How a camera works - The SloMo Guys.
Inside Jabba the Hutt - Star Wars/art/tech
Lego Painting
Elgin Park - Photography (Includes some LGBT issues some may not be comfortable with.)
Neil Harbisson - Color Blind artist who hears color.
Bugs Bunny in a museum
Digital Projection Art
Origami A Short Film
Origami Animals
From Clay to Mosaics
Surreal Music Video
Assembly Line Paintings from China
10 Tricks with Paper
Tumbleweed Tango Also HERE
Shocking Art Supplies (Humor)
Home Sweet Home (Animation)
Texture Dance
Extravagant Hats (Great video for a sculptural project unit)
Online Illusions
Careers:
Careers in Art report 90% Satisfaction!
Court Room Artist
Court Room Artist 2 (Vox)
Art Careers
List of careers with some video links
Origami:
A Working Umbrella
Joe Nakashima Channel
EZ Origami Channel
Paper Folds Channel (Origami & Crafts)
Paper Airplanes
DIY: How To Videos
Homemade Gelli Printing Plates
Shared Drawing: Surreal
Colored Pencil Blending Tutorial
Basic Week Throwing - Clay
Bubble Printing: (Use acrylic paint or whatever you have on hand. I hot glue cups to paper plates so they don't tip over and it gives a place for kids put straws down while printing. Cover tables too and you're good to go.)
Anamorphic Sphere Drawing
How to photograph your artwork
Charcoal Figure/Face
Eco Printing
How to make a clay whistle (Ocarina)
Simple Weaving (bracelet)
Flower Pounding (Printing)
Origami House Design
Warhol's Ink Blot Technique
Encourage Creativity - WHY Art is an important class - Great first video of the year!
What is the Big Deal About the History of Art - Another Great Intro Video.
Embrace the Shake - Phil Hanson (Great inspirational video for those that struggle)
Last video of the year - Alan Watts
Making Art - Brass Brother's Films (10-15 min ea.) Some artistic nudes in a few videos.
Growth Mindset Good Motivator
Anti-Bullying Messages:
To This Day - 7.36 m. It features the work of 12 animators, supported by 80 artists (middle school and up.)
Caught in the Crowd - 3.39 m. Music video, a bully's apology.
If you are in a Shell - 3.12 m. Color and Dance Theme (Advice for the bullied)
Bully Dance 10.23 m. No words, great for discussions with smaller children K-4th.
Middle School Football 3.41 m. Uplifting video for that age group.
Channels
Brown Paper Tutorials - Many quick art ed tutorials (Many great for subs too)
Art History Resource - Many Videos
National Film Board Canada - Many Films & Animation
Art Talks at Ted.com - Many Videos
Art History Videos - Several (Tice Art) Animated.
Khan Academy Art Channel
Art Documentaries (All under 16 minutes)
Aaron's Art Tips - Disney Professional's Advice. (Mostly Photoshop Tips) (MS/HS)
Origami Channel - Paper-folding AND some geometry videos
Animation (Process Oriented - how to)
The Daily Monster (Great idea for a quick exploration)
KQED (Elements & More)
Seb Lester Calligraphy
50 full length Art related movies free on Youtube. (NOT ALL are appropriate for all ages PREVIEW!)
Art Project Videos From PBS
CGI Meetup - Lots of animation - (NOT ALL are appropriate for all ages PREVIEW!)
Artrageous with Nate (Emmy award winning, for middle & high school)
Oscar Award Winning Shorts - (MUST Preview for appropriateness)
The Artist's Projects - MET Museum (Preview Please)
Kids Should See This - Short art related videos with cross content connections.
Art Prof Channel.
Pop Up Art Tutorial Channel
Studio Habits (Artists talk about working as artists)
Rachel Wintemberg Channel of Teaching Tips and Techniques
Stick Figure Art (Not really stick Figures, just a name) Nice quick tutorials!
Videos - Historical
Salvador Dali' on What's My Line
Salvador Dali Images - Antiques Roadshow
Andy Warhol Interview
Andy Warhol Soup Cans - Antiques Roadshow
Andy Warhol - Why he matters
Walt Disney & Salvador Dali Short Film
Duchamp's Fountain
Coin Making - History
Coin Manufacturing - Low Relief Sculpture
Art History in Song - By Hold Your horses
Art History in Song 2 - By Jane Zhang - Dust My Shoulders Off
Lost Art of Automatons
Joan Miro
Rene Magritte
Roy Lichtenstein
Keith Haring - Emerging Artist
Calder Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Calder Sculpture - Antiques Roadshow
Roy Lichtenstein - Antiques Roadshow
Andrew Wyeth Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Picasso, Rodin, & Matisse - Antiques Roadshow
Diego Rivera - Antiques Roadshow
Norman Rockwell Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Chuck Close Abstract Painting - Antiques Roadshow
Joseph Stella - Antiques Roadshow
Ancient Art - PBS "How Art Made The World"
Michelangelo's David - Context
Leonardo da Vinci's Drawing Materials
Art History - Brief Context
Wall-e Credits - Did you know they cover cave art through impressionism?
William Bentley (Snowflake Photographer)
Matisse Cut Outs at MoMA
Roy Lichtenstein at the Tate Modern - long
Andy Warhol - (Fleeting non-detailed nude at the 4.23 mark - Preview Please)
Expressionism
Face Jugs - Clay - African American History - PBS
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? 5.5 min.
Minimalism (vs Abstract Expressionism) VOX 6.29 min.
Maria Martinez Pottery
Videos - Instructional
Color: Elementary
Lines: Song - Elementary
The Art Element of Line (3 min)
9 Composition Tips (Photography but can be applied to 2D art)
Science of Symmetry
3 Primary Colors - Elementary
Depth through color change - Penn & Teller
Color Theory
What is Color
Tints & Shades Video
Color Song (Elementary) 2nd Song too
Complementary Colors
Monochromatic (Green)
Optical Illusions
Career in Makeup Design - a project.
What is Art? 60 Minutes
60 Minutes Art Story
What is Art? (Humor)
The Value of Art
Coin Manufacturing - Low Relief Sculpture
8 Art Elements - Introduction
Art Principles - Introduction
Art Principles - Animated
Balance - Short film, Oscar Winner
The Difference between Art and Craft - TED
Free-flow Sketching - Links to facebook
Giant Watercolor Painting - "Three Amigos"
Persian Calligraphy
Gridding Drawings
Gridding Portraits
Van Gogh & Math
Math, Art, & Pixar
Collaborating with children - Monsters info HERE
Why is Modern Art So Bad - Great intro for a writing assignment or debate.
What is Art by McHooots - Alternative to the above, appropriate for all levels._
Carving Candles - An old craft.
Gyotaku - Japanese Fish Printing
Japanese Woodblack Printing
Mexican Woodblock Printing
Vintage Disney Animation (& Collaboration)
Fractals
Creating an Adventure - (Good start for graphic novel unit)
Secret of Drawing #1 (AP Art Level) #2, #3, #4
The Mathematics of sidewalk illusions from TedEd
Relief Sculpture - Plaster on wallboard by Bernie Mitchell
100 Thank Yous - A project idea (Each student make 4?)
Chuck Jones & Loony Tunes Animation
How Ink Is Made
Flag Design - Good Design vs Bad Design (Light curses to public audience) TED.com
Good Design Matters
6 Portraits, One Man (Images and video)
Silver Smithing - Roman Cup
Understanding Abstraction - Inside Out
Ceramics from the vessel's point of view
Form and Engineering video
Copyright Law - with Disney clips
How paper umbrellas are made - 3 minutes
How Native American Pottery is made (With Mr. Rodgers) 13 min.
Kenichi Kanazawa: Color & Sound (3.13 min)
How Color Manipulates Emotion in Movies: (3.19 min.)
Printing like Andy Warhol (5.30 min)
SIMPLE Tessellations
Perspective Help
Perspective (Empire of the Eye, a series of videos)
One Point Perspective
One to Two point perspective
Two point perspective time lapse
City in two point perspective
Two Point Perspecive fantasy image
Inspirational Art Related
What is art for? Good video for discussion.
Do Schools Kill Creativity? By Ken Robinson
Self Image - Perfection?
Embrace the Shake - Phil Hanson* (link above too)
Digital Face 1
Digital Face 2
Self Image
Self Image (creepy)
Why is Creativity Important in Education?
Jim Carrey's Graduation Speech
Craft and the Military
The Creative Process (For writers but applies to all the arts)
Sargy Mann - Blind Painter
Glass Blowing in Gang Area (1 use of "N" word in context)
Perspective & Optics Related Video
Fiber Recycling in India
Ugly Dolls
The Shoemaker
Finished but not PERFECT (Excellent for perfectionist students)
Great for culturally related projects Heritage & DNA.
Origami: Science & Math (18 min).
Film as Art Buster Keaton. (8.3 m.)
Contemporary Artists
Jin Kim - Gray tone ceramics
Typewriter Artist
Pushpin Art
Shadow Art
Garbage Bag Art
Phil Hanson at Work making Burger Art
Theo Jansen "Living Sculptures"
Single Sheet Paper Cut Art
Reverse Graffiti
Dirt Painting
Shepard Fairey - Obama Hope Poster
Shepard Fairey - Different Than above
Money as Art
Arthur Ganson Moving Sculpture
Paper Artist/Designer
Ra Paulette Cave Sculptures
Moshe Safdie - Architect
KAWS
Clark Little - Photographer
Marchello Barenghi - Realistic Drawings: multi-media
Icheon Ceramics - Several Masters [More Here]
Marela Zacarias - Patterned sculpture (Window screen & joint compound)
Street Art - (2 Female Artists) Swoon & Olek
Eric Standley - Laser cut paper
Micro-Organism Art - Klaus Kemp, master of Victorian diatom arrangement
Bamboo Art - Japan
Glass Weaving by Markow & Norris
Bruce Riley - Resin Painter
Steven Spazuk - Painting with Fire and Smoke
Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces
Jack Storms - Glass Sculpture
Kendra Haste - Wire Sculptures
Yayoi Kusama - Installation Art
Karina Smigla-Bobinski - Installation art
Maggie Taylor - Digital Artist and photographer
Wood Mirror by Daniel Rozin
Art & Environment - Zaria Forman (7 min.)
Maurice Sendak - 1966 interview (15 min.) , Another 1985 (6 min), and 2013 (17 min)
Matthew Reinhart, Pop up book artist and engineer
Marc-Antoine Mathieu: Zooming in on a graphic novel. (4.03 min)
Architecture: Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder's tilting house
Titus Kaphar: Race in art (13 min)
Brian Dettmer: Book Sculpture Artist
Fun and Art Related
Silly Art Class
Dog Animation
Octopus Animation Winner
Shadow Movie - 26 minutes - Scary
Cube Animation
Taiwan Lantern Festival
Black Hole -A Short Film
Digital Photography - Altered images
Rube Goldberg Machine - OK Go
The Writing's on the Wall - OK Go
Breakfast with Rube Goldberg
Pop-Up Sculptures
Bob Ross Song - Great before first painting project
Rainbow Connection - Jason Mraz
Make a Squash Book - Origami
Mr. Bean- Science & Art
Duct Tape Art
A Girl Named Elastika - Animation with office supplies
How Crayons Are Made - With Mr. Rodgers
Marilyn Miller - Creation and Destruction, Foam Animation
Photoshop Make-over - By A-do-be'
Japanese Wax Food - how they make tempura & Lettuce
Ebru Art - From Turkey, images made from oil paint on water
The Maker - Award winning animation.
Listening to Color (Ted.com)
Traditional Animation a Tribute
Me+Her (Animated Cardboard)
How a camera works - The SloMo Guys.
Inside Jabba the Hutt - Star Wars/art/tech
Lego Painting
Elgin Park - Photography (Includes some LGBT issues some may not be comfortable with.)
Neil Harbisson - Color Blind artist who hears color.
Bugs Bunny in a museum
Digital Projection Art
Origami A Short Film
Origami Animals
From Clay to Mosaics
Surreal Music Video
Assembly Line Paintings from China
10 Tricks with Paper
Tumbleweed Tango Also HERE
Shocking Art Supplies (Humor)
Home Sweet Home (Animation)
Texture Dance
Extravagant Hats (Great video for a sculptural project unit)
Online Illusions
Careers:
Careers in Art report 90% Satisfaction!
Court Room Artist
Court Room Artist 2 (Vox)
Art Careers
List of careers with some video links
Origami:
A Working Umbrella
Joe Nakashima Channel
EZ Origami Channel
Paper Folds Channel (Origami & Crafts)
Paper Airplanes
DIY: How To Videos
Homemade Gelli Printing Plates
Shared Drawing: Surreal
Colored Pencil Blending Tutorial
Basic Week Throwing - Clay
Bubble Printing: (Use acrylic paint or whatever you have on hand. I hot glue cups to paper plates so they don't tip over and it gives a place for kids put straws down while printing. Cover tables too and you're good to go.)
Anamorphic Sphere Drawing
How to photograph your artwork
Charcoal Figure/Face
Eco Printing
How to make a clay whistle (Ocarina)
Simple Weaving (bracelet)
Flower Pounding (Printing)
Origami House Design
Warhol's Ink Blot Technique
Art Sub Tutorials:
These are overly simplified video tutorials for the non-art teacher and may be used as media introductions for classes. I will be adding to this list. Click the red title to be taken to the YouTube video.
Color Pencils Tutorial (Starts at the 4 minute mark)
Pencils (non-colored) Tutorial
Scissors Tutorial
Glue Tutorial
Crayons Tutorial
Oil Pastels Tutorial
Markers Tutorial
Water Colors Tutorial
Acrylic Painting Tutorial
These are overly simplified video tutorials for the non-art teacher and may be used as media introductions for classes. I will be adding to this list. Click the red title to be taken to the YouTube video.
Color Pencils Tutorial (Starts at the 4 minute mark)
Pencils (non-colored) Tutorial
Scissors Tutorial
Glue Tutorial
Crayons Tutorial
Oil Pastels Tutorial
Markers Tutorial
Water Colors Tutorial
Acrylic Painting Tutorial
| Video Notes Handout - Great For Sub Work! |
