Art Education is a large field. there are hundreds of books, videos, classes and websites that teach art education.
Art Education is different for early childhood education as is most education for preschool, kindergarten and early elementary school age children.
Basically in order for young children to learn anything, lessons need to be as hands on as [...]

Claude Monet  is a great artist to start with introducing art education to kids.
Monet was was a french painter who was considered one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement. The Impressionists painted what they saw and felt as opposed to the exact replica of what there actually was. (Sounds like our toddlers doesn’t it?)
You [...]

Wassily Kandinsky was a very well known abstract artist yet, he did not even start out as an artist.  He actually was a lawyer and first and did not begin studying art until he was about 30years old. ( Proof that you CAN teach old dogs new tricks.)
Kandinsky started painting  after the impressionists and was [...]