Ron is the creator of the Artabet.
Artabet is helping teachers around the world with how to teach art to kids ages 3 to 10. We are featuring our new teachers in this blog: Megha, Vineesha, Josef, Judi, and Lene.Let’s Start in Mumbai, India with Megha’s students. Megha sent me this link of some of her…
Teaching Drawing to ages 2 to 6 with the Artabet’s First Steps In Drawing Book Let’s Start with an example of our new ‘What To Teach Our Kids To Draw Video Series’ for ages 18 months to 6 years-old. This video will show you how we introduce a new line…
How Young Do I Teach My Child Drawing and Painting We now know that our children are always learning. If you are alive you are learning. It is what we all do best if given two things. 1- Encouragement 2- Praise A one to two-year-old is ready to have a great…
Congratulations to all the Artabet teachers, and their students for their hard effort and success over the past year. Today we are going to see how to teach children’s art in India Artabet is now approaching 1,000,000 visits from around the world with over 7000 teachers subscribing to the Free Teacher’s…
Three Important Questions: Should anyone show anybody what they don’t know ? Should anyone teach anybody how to do something they don’t know how to do themselves ? Should we learn what to do and how to do it from someone who can do it? How many well qualified people do…
The Artabet website is full of videos and blogs that will give you all the skills needed to make this Drawing Cars and Trucks lesson a successful and rewarding artistic experience for your child, your students, and yourself. Start each drawing session with the Artabet Warm-ups and then dive into this how to…
Let’s start with a Plan Are you going to want their drawing to be a ‘fun’ activity where you spend precious moments with your young ones? Are you going to enjoy watching them develop, get excited and become absorbed in their art activity? Will you show them what they will need…
The ‘Obvious’ Is Always Overlooked Take a quick look at your student’s or child’s drawing of a person. Ask the ‘obvious’ questions. “Are all the parts assembled in the ‘right’ place?” Do the arms come out of the shoulders? Are the arms and legs the ‘right’ length? Is there a neck?…
I’ve taught summer art classes in my hometown of Nelson BC for many years. I’ll share some tips for launching your own summer art camp. By the way, if you live in Nelson BC and are interested in summer art camps for your kids, email me at info4artabet@gmail.com. This is…
Easy How to Draw and Paint a Dinosaur in Your Classroom with Ron Mulvey Follow along as Ron guides you step by step in this easy draw and paint dinosaur video of a ‘Charming Bronto’ called Thunderfoot. Let’s get stared with the Artabet Welcome and the Artabet Energy Line Warm…
3-D Drawing is easy if you Pay Attention to the “ITTY BITTY DOT” If you have already seen the 34 Amazing Art Exercises and Games from a previous blog post,this video will demonstrate how to take an imaginative approach to some of the ideas you have learned from that post. It…
Ron will show you ‘How To Use a Pencil When You Shade’ and some other ‘Pencil Tips’ that will sharpen your skills in this step by step video. A strong pencil grip is essential to shading.This is only acquired with diligent practice and repetition. Young art students ages 3 to 6 may find…
This is a 3-D exercise that gets your 3-D thinking warmed up and ready to go. Think ‘scroll’ and ‘treasure map’.
Three challenging 3-D drawings for Grades 3 to 7. I have had younger students who get it right away but make sure they have all the basic Artabet exercises done first.
Use your six lines of the Artabet to draw a simple baby dinosaur coming out of it’s egg.