Family Learning
Get inspired, get creative, get sketching! Learn about a variety of drawing concepts and techniques while exploring the artworks of a highlighted collection gallery.
The Dayton Art Institute’s growing Learning Library Online offers art-making lessons, projects and educational materials for learners of all ages. Connect with your museum through art experiences you can do at home … or anywhere! Click a project to learn more and to download lessons. Check here often for updates and new lessons.
Family Learning Lessons
Nature and Landscape
Unkoku Toeki (Japanese, 1591-1644), Landscape, 17th century
Animals in Art
Chinese (Tang Dynasty, 618-907) – Dancing Horse
Art of Architecture
Draw complex buildings and structures using one-point perspective techniques.
Anatomy Fundamentals: The Human Figure
Benjamin West – Adonis with His Dogs
Flowers and Plants
Geometric shapes as our starting point on the journey into a freeform, flower-filled world
Draw from the Collection – Flowers and Plants 2
Draw from the Collection – Portraiture
Create a portrait drawing based on Alice Neel’s John (1979).
