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Learn skills from casting to weaving, with art activities for adults and kids

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  • Textiles and sculpture
  • Drawing and mark making
  • Unusual materials

Painting

  • How to Paint a Flower like a Pre-Raphaelite

    Follow Glory Samjolly's step-by-step guide to painting, including modern day tips and tricks

  • Still from the film showing two artists working on a canvas

    How to Paint Like Bowling

    Ever wondered how Frank Bowling creates dazzling, dripping compositions of colour? Find out with our step by step guide

  • How to paint like L S Lowry

    How to Paint Like Lowry

    Ever wondered how L.S. Lowry made his artwork? Join artist Kathryn Edwards to learn about perspective, form and colour

  • How to paint like Kandinsky

    How to Paint Like Kandinsky

    Ever wondered how Kandinsky painted his masterpieces? Find out how to paint an abstract work inspired by Kandinsky’s Cossacks, 1910-1

  • a person paints a watercolour sunset

    How to Paint Like Turner

    Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin tackles the language of watercolour in Turner's work through line, tone and colour

  • Joey Yu looking to camera listening to music against a pink background

    Draw a Dancer

    Artist and illustrator Joey Yu shows you how to paint a dancer inspired by a piece of music

  • a girl painting with her hands

    Three Fun Ways to Paint

    Paint with water, use recycled stuff, or try not using a paintbrush!

Print and Collage

  • How to print like Warhol

    How to Print like Warhol

    Discover how artist Andy Warhol made his colourful and iconic silkscreen prints

  • Collage a Matisse Snail

    Get creative with shapes and make a Matisse-inspired collage

  • Print

    Learn about printing techniques from Aquatint to Wood engraving

  • andy warhol sitting on a banana

    Make Pop Art like Warhol

    Design your own piece of pop art inspired by this famous artist

  • Collage

    Read about collage and other related techniques such as montage and photomontage

  • Kirstie Beaven

    Play with Collage

    Follow along with the video to make a collage using bold shapes, and a collage portrait

Textiles and sculpture

  • Photograph of a pair of hands carving soap

    Soap Carving

    Create a simple sculpture from a bar of soap!

  • Hands making a pot inspired by the work of Grayson Perry

    How to Make a Pot Like Grayson Perry

    Follow our step-by-step guide to building a coil pot with ceramicist Freya Bramble-Carter

  • How to weave like Anni Albers

    How to Weave like Anni Albers

    Ever wondered how a piece of fabric is made? Join Textile Designer Rosa Pearks on how to warp and weft like Anni Albers

  • Photograph of loom activity

    Learn to Weave

    Be inspired by the artist Anni Albers, make a loom and weave some art to hang on your wall!

  • Cast lightbulb

    How to Cast like Rachel Whiteread

    Ever wondered how casting works? Find out how with our step-by-step

  • a man sits against a pink backdrop with artworks on paper behind him on the wall, holding a sensory sculpture

    Make a Sensory Sculpture

    Use materials that look and feel different to make a sculpture with Harold Offeh

  • Sculpture

    Find out about the four processes of making 3D art: carving, modelling, casting, constructing

  • hands against an orange background holding a paper sculpture

    Make a Paper Sculpture

    Cut up some paper scraps and make a 3D sculpture

Drawing and mark making

  • Photograph of a woman drawing with pastels and standing at an easel

    How to Draw Like Paula Rego

    Follow our step-by-step guide to pastel drawing with artist Katy Papineau

  • Illustration by Helena Perez Garcia

    Draw Like a Pre-Raphaelite

    Discover how these artists draw people and clothes

  • Photograph of frog and prince fairy tale drawing

    Draw a Fairy Tale

    Let's do some finger printing and create your favourite fairy tale characters

  • Vincent van Gogh Self-portrait 1889

    Create Art Like Van Gogh

    From sunflowers to self-portraits, learn how to make art like the Dutch painter!

  • Drawing

    Learn about drawing techniques such as vanish point and drawing materials like charcoal and graphite

  • thumbnail with a yellow background and a pair of hands drawing a plant.

    Make a Continuous Line Drawing

    Try not to take your pencil off the paper as you make a continuous line drawing

Unusual materials

  • Photograph of make chocolate art activity

    Make a Chocolate Painting

    Create some yummy art which you can eat with your friends!

  • Be inspired and create on Tate Kids

    Go to Tate Kids
  • Make a wave painting activity

    Make a Wave Painting

    Be inspired by nature and use found objects to make your own unique paintings

  • Beauty Olafur Eliasson image

    Make a Rainbow

    Play with water and light, and create your own arty science experiment

  • Harold Offeh in Use Your Body to Make Art

    Use Your Body to Make Art

    Stretch out, warm up and take part in two performances with artist Harold Offeh

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