Visual Arts Project

• Learn the basic principles of each via arts category.

• Learn about color:  primary, secondary, complementary, shades, and tints. 

• Try free-form clay work. 

• Make marker, crayon, and colored pencil drawings. 

• Do school, day camp craft projects. 

• Try a cutting and pasting  project such as scrapbooking or decoupage. 

• Learn basic leather craft stamping. 

• Experiment with line, shape, color, texture and space.

• Learn design techniques for scrapbook pages.
• Experiment with various brushes and paint.
• Craft jewelry designs.
• Do a drawing project using shading and blending lines; learn use of charcoal, pencil, or ink.
• Form clay pots, such as pinch pot, coil pot, or slab container.
• Create with other forms such as metal, paper or wood.

• Experiment with rhythm, proportion, emphasis, balance, and unity
• Create a scrapbook for your 4-H club.
• Learn how to use alternative flower materials.
• Learn advanced cake decorating techniques.
• Understand the financial costs of creating items to start a home-based business.
• Learn how to forge metals.

• Report about careers that use artistic techniques such as a jewelry designer or glass blower.
• Create a scrapbook of a family trip or school activity.
• Build a plastic model.
• Design a flower arrangement.
• Produce a clay or plaster item.
• Make a drawing or painting item.
• Create an item for the Glue Solution category.
• Design a leather craft item.
• Create an item for the Wood Arts category.
• Form an item for the Metal Arts category.
• Craft clay beads and design your own jewelry.
• Make paper crafts such as origami or quilling.
• Make a flyer, brochure, bookmark, postcard or PowerPoint promoting a 4-H project area or program with graphic arts designed piece.
• Forge metal items.
• Decorate a cake form, cupcakes or cookies.
• Compile a journal of visual arts projects work.

•    Volunteer at a local art event
•    Donate your art for a fundraiser
•    Volunteer at a local art museum

• Present a demonstration to your
• 4-H club on creating visual arts project
• Interview a local artist
• Teach art activities at an after school or summer program
• Plan, conduct and evaluate an on-going workshop
• Demonstrate an art technique to local community groups, such as Kiwanis Club, Women's Church Group, Chamber of Commerce

•    Lead your family in an art project
•    Volunteer to serve on a local art council
•    Teach an art workshop for your local Clover Kids Club

•    Market and sell your visual arts items at a craft show
•    Start a business teaching classes on a visual arts project