Joseys Art School Episode #90 Butterfly Art Project Art Lessons for kids

 

Butterflies taste with their feet, drink food like a straw, and change completely from tiny caterpillars. [1, 2, 3]
Amazing Body Secrets
  • Feet for tasting: Butterflies stand on plants and use special sensors on their feet to taste leaves.
  • Straw tongues: They do not have teeth or solid food; they drink sweet flower juice through a long, bendy tube called a proboscis.
  • Sunny flyers: They need the warm sun to heat up their bodies before they can fly

 

 

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Joseys Art School Episode #88 Franz Marc Inspired Fox Kids Art Lesson

 

Franz Marc was a famous German artist born in 1880. He loved painting bright, colorful animals instead of people because he thought animals were pure, kind, and connected to nature. [1, 2, 3, 4]
He Painted Blue Horses
  • Franz Marc is most famous for painting horses in bright blue colors.
  • He did not paint animals the way they look in real life.
  • He used blue because he felt it was a calm, spiritual color. [1, 2, 3]
Colors Had Secret Feelings
  • He believed every color had its own special personality and emotion.
  • Blue meant calm and strong.
  • Yellow meant gentle and happy.
  • Red meant heavy or loud. [1, 2, 3]
He Loved Animals More Than People
  • He thought people were complicated and sometimes mean.
  • He believed animals lived in a pure way without doing bad things.
  • He wanted to show how the world looks through the eyes of an animal.
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Joseys Art School Episode #85 Jasper Johns Alphabet Kids Art Lesson Fine...

 

Born in 1930, American artist Jasper Johns became famous by painting everyday, familiar things like the American flag, numbers, and the alphabet. Instead of painting imaginary scenes, he used objects everyone already knew to change how people look at art. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
He Painted a Flag Because of a Dream
  • Jasper Johns woke up from a dream in 1954 where he had painted a big American flag.
  • The very next year, he turned that dream into reality by creating his most famous painting, Flag. [1, 2]
He Used Melted Hot Wax
  • Instead of using regular liquid paint alone, Johns loved using an ancient technique called encaustic.
  • He mixed his colors with hot, melted wax. It dried super fast and made his paintings feel bumpy, thick, and rough. [1, 2, 3, 4]
He Hid Real Objects in His Art
  • Johns did not just paint flat pictures. He sometimes glued real newspapers, pieces of plastic, or beer cans right onto his canvases and sculptures.
  • He wanted people to look at ordinary things as real physical objects instead of just pictures on a wall.
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