tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69352458429376111732024-03-17T00:25:28.752-06:00that artist womandiscovering life one art adventure at a timeGail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.comBlogger540125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-58816155312290957622021-11-24T11:10:00.005-07:002021-11-24T11:10:48.765-07:00Template Links<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dvVdd1ImEhg/YZ56F85CyKI/AAAAAAAAWs4/NOIPWgZ_kIkJKldOv_2K2XGmSr83S77yACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/CatfaceBartelOctt2011196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1502" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dvVdd1ImEhg/YZ56F85CyKI/AAAAAAAAWs4/NOIPWgZ_kIkJKldOv_2K2XGmSr83S77yACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/CatfaceBartelOctt2011196.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have been getting a lot of emails about links to my templates not working anymore....<b> a lot of emails.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's nice to know that you are still out there using the projects on this blog. :) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Evidently Google Drive made a change on July 21st of this year to with regards to privacy and the unauthrorized use of documents and images.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This changed access to my templates and I wasn't on the ball enough to realize what was going on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is no way for me to change it but I can grant you access if you request permission using the screen that shows up when you try to access the template or email me directly with a request at thatartistwoman@shaw.ca</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I know some of you have been trying that but because I wasn't paying attention you were getting no response. I started back tracking thru the requests and have dealt with everything from Sept 30th on. I will not be going any further back so if you made a request in August or Sept please try again and I will deal with it now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please be patient as I didn't realize how many of you are out there. I will try to address them everyday once a day but give me 24hrs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I know it's been a long time since I posted anything. Since the pandemic I have not gone back to teaching art and have just been doing my own thing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's pretty amazing to see my old projects still being used. I know here in Calgary whenever they talk about schools and the pandemic on the news they use file footage from a classroom and one of my Fall projects is up on the bulletin board!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Take care everyone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Gail</b></span></p>Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-53771041040536510852020-04-07T10:01:00.000-06:002020-04-07T10:01:12.945-06:00Easy Easter Projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I planned on coming up with new projects staying at home but I think like many out there I have been just holding my breath with everything going on.<br />
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However I wanted to remind everyone of some old projects of mine that are easy to do at home in preparation for Easter and Spring.<br />
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I have been working everyday on my Pysanky, I'll share some photos in a bit but you can decorate eggs easily at home with just a few supplies you already own.<br />
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These are eggs decorated by a Kindergarten class.<br />
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Take an egg, I use raw eggs as we are not eating them and over time they just dry out inside.<br />
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Draw on them with pastels or wax crayons. Bright colours work best like yellow, orange, light green, light blue, even white which will show up after dying.<br />
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Choose 1 colour as the background and dye the egg. Now most people will not have Easter egg dye but you can use the tabs they sell to dye eggs at the grocery store for this. You can also use good old <b>food colouring.</b> Dilute some in water. Your colours may be pale but the designs will still stand out.<br />
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With markers colour a little on the egg then take a paintbrush and water and spread the colour over the egg. It must be a <b>non permanent </b>marker to do this. Like a Crayola or ones that most students have.<br />
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Here are some of the eggs my daughter and I have been working on:</div>
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<a href="https://pysankypower.wordpress.com/">Saving the World: One Egg at a Time</a></div>
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<br />Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-57572671668284577092020-02-06T09:51:00.000-07:002020-02-06T09:51:48.266-07:00File Folder Books Revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is just a short post to remind you about this great project. <br />
Grade 1 started their Penguin file folder books yesterday. It occurred to me that these little books are not utilized enough.<br />
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The students were so excited to be creating their own book.<br />
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Using disk tempera paint we painted the front, back and pockets of the book, using the ideas I posted earlier the books are just adapted to be about Penguins instead of Polar Bears.<br />
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The Grade 1 teacher had stockpiled pre cut bookmarks, tabs, info sheets from previous books. This made it so easy to create a new one.<br />
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This was the original book that started it all.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2012/02/how-to-make-file-folder-books.html">This post </a>details how to make a file folder book. With younger grades (K-2) I make the books ahead of time. Older kids can easily follow along and make the basic book.<br />
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Disk tempera paint works quite well to paint these books. Just decide on a basic palette of colours (4) that relates to the subject matter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2012/07/aztec-file-folder-books.html">This post was about the Aztec file folder book</a> I designed for a summer camp. It has different options.<br />
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and this post ( <a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2014/09/nature-file-folder-book-part-1.html">part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2014/09/nature-file-folder-book-part-2.html">part 2) </a>is about a Nature file folder book, again with different options.<br />
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In the past I have done a Frog life cycle file folder book, a Wetlands file folder book, an Iroquois file folder book, a butterfly life cycle file folder book, an Acadian culture file folder book, the Provinces and territories of Canada book, etc......you get the picture. These books are extremely versatile and once you start making them if you stockpile your supplies they come together very easily.<br />
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They also make use of all the leftover bits of paper you have from other projects. If you keep a tray box near the paper cutter to collect all 1-3.5 inch wide leftovers you will a stockpile in no time.<br />
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So please give these books a try.<br />
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<br />Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-47654921502132954842019-12-15T20:47:00.000-07:002019-12-15T20:47:07.369-07:00Christmas Tree Truck Ornament<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my take on the Christmas Tree Truck design that is still quite popular this year.<br />
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I came up with this ornament for Christmas Craft Day so it's a fairly easy one to put together.<br />
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<b>- <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FqFvGrhSKudye-5abSg50CSp0rsayY7V">pattern template</a></b><br />
<b>- corrugated cardboard scrap</b><br />
<b>- red and grey (black and white) acrylic paint</b><br />
<b>- red felt</b><br />
<b>- black felt</b><br />
<b>- red buttons</b><br />
<b>- wooden coffee stir stick</b><br />
<b>- white craft foam</b><br />
<b>- sticky gem</b><br />
<b>- grey glitter paper</b><br />
<b>- garland ties (garland pipe cleaners)</b><br />
<b>- tacky glue</b><br />
<b>- fine sharpie pen</b><br />
<b>- string for hanging</b><br />
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Using the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FqFvGrhSKudye-5abSg50CSp0rsayY7V">pattern</a> for the truck body cut one out of corrugated cardboard.<br />
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Paint both sides of the cardboard with red acrylic paint.<br />
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Cut 2 pieces out of your coffee stir stick.<br />
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Paint the wood pieces grey.<br />
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Cut the wheel well pattern out of the red felt, basically a loonie sized circle, and cut in half.<br />
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Cut 2 black circles, about quarter sized, for the tires.<br />
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Glue one of the wheel wells on first positioning it just back a bit from front of truck.<br />
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The running board is next. I added a few texture lines on it with a fine sharpie pen.<br />
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Glue on the next wheel well.<br />
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Glue the tires into place and the truck rear bumper.<br />
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For the window I used a grey glitter paper.<br />
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I then used that fine Sharpie pen to draw in the lines for the door and the handle.<br />
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For the headlight I cut a semi circle out of white craft foam, glued it into place and then added a sticky gem.<br />
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The tree is made from these garland ties.<br />
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You only need 1/4 of one tie.<br />
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Turn truck to back and glue tree into place.<br />
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The last step is to add a hanger. I'm using this gold thread I have. You can use yarn or string even.<br />
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In order to get the truck to hang level attach the string to the back right after the cab of the truck.<br />
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I wanted a new Christmas art project for the bulletin board so this is what I came up with.<br />
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Grade 1 completed them today.<br />
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<b>- white heavier paper for painting background, you also can cheat and just use light blue construction paper</b><br />
<b>- white sketch paper</b><br />
<b>- light blue, white, red, and green liquid tempera or acrylic paint</b><br />
<b>- corrugated cardboard</b><br />
<b>- white and black oil pastel</b><br />
<b>- black paper scraps</b><br />
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Tape down your heavy painting paper.<br />
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If you are using light blue construction paper you can skip this step.<br />
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Paint some sketch paper red. This is for the barn.<br />
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Paint some paper green, this for the wreath and Christmas tree.<br />
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After the blue paint has dried take a white oil pastel. Draw out your snow slopes and your trees.<br />
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You want trees on either side and space in middle for your barn.<br />
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For the far snow slope I painted with watered down paint. I used dry brushing and straight paint for the slope in the foreground.<br />
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I made templates for Grade 1 just to get the right size....they all end up looking different which I love.<br />
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Cut a barn shape out of the red paper.<br />
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With the white paper strips (I put printer paper thru the paper shredder), make the door for your barn.<br />
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For the roof, outline it with black pastel and smudge it a bit.<br />
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For the wreath I turned over the green paper, I traced the inside of a masking tape to make a circle, this is my guideline. I then drew a jagged line. Cut on this jagged line.<br />
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Every year I try to come up with a new art project for Remembrance Day.<br />
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<b>- paper for painting, we used watercolour for background and regular white paper for our poppies</b><br />
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<b>- black paper, black buttons and poppy seeds</b><br />
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I prepped art boards for all the students. I taped off a border and then a section where the table will be.<br />
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We took oil pastels in dark blue, light blue and white and I had them draw circles in the large section of the paper.<br />
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Some were very ordered and precise with rows of circles and some just scribbled circles all over. I found the scribbled circles tended to look better.<br />
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The students then painted the large section with blue disk tempera paint.<br />
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While our background dries I gave them some extra paper. One I crimped with my crimper for texture.<br />
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We painted these papers. I used red disk tempera for the paper with the crayon circles and red acrylic for the crimped.<br />
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Back to the background. <b>I took the tape where the table is and moved it up </b>so it was on the edge of the blue background.<br />
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Now with yellow disk tempera we painted in the table.<br />
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I made up sheets of repeating words in different fonts and sizes. They were all related to Remembrance Day.<br />
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We painted them with some watery grey paint. This is to make it less stark and darken the value (colour value) of this component.<br />
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On the back of the paper with the words we draw out a vase.<br />
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On the back of our red poppy paper we draw some poppies and cut them out.<br />
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Before we glue them on we use green pastel and draw in the stems and one or two leaves.<br />
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First thing I add is a ribbon bookmark, very few sketchbooks have this feature at least not the ones with the paper I like.<br />
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This is very easy to add, just turn to the back of your sketchbook, cut a ribbon about 4-5 inches longer than your sketchbook, and then tape into place. I use packing tape.<br />
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I tape this in place with packing tape again right in the back of the sketchbook as well.<br />
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For a large sketchbook I just take a business sized envelope and cut it on the diagonal.<br />
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Next thing I add is an elastic, I know seems pretty low tech but I get asked about this. As your sketchbook gets to be about 1/3 or more full it expands. (especially if you are adding paint)<br />
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The elastic helps to keep it together.<br />
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You will also find with a bound sketchbook that you will need to reinforce the binding as you go, again packing tape works great for this.<br />
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Even with a coil bound book I use an elastic. Some people will use a binder clip but I find that it can make dents in your pages and there is never a big enough clip and it ends up falling off.<br />
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I then add a large ziplock bag. With my large sketchbooks I can't close it but I will still store my sketchbook in one.<br />
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This has saved me more times than I can count especially when travelling.<br />
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Another habit I have developed is using a date stamp.<br />
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I carry it with me when I travel and I use it in my sketchbooks.<br />
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The first few pages of a sketchbook I leave blank.<br />
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I use them to add technical info or ideas that I want to always have available to me. Lists, reference material, photos from my sprocket, stickers from my travels.<br />
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I usually add a business card or at least my name and cell # in case I lose my sketchbook.<br />
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So what types of sketchbooks do I like......it really is personal preference.<br />
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I like these bound <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Premium-Black-Sketchbook-Large-micro-perforated/dp/1441310223/ref=sr_1_2?crid=320LI1NRSAOZ9&keywords=peter+pauper+press+sketchbook&qid=1568222169&s=gateway&sprefix=Peter+pauper%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-2">Peter Pauper Press books.</a> You can find them at Chapters/Indigo which is great, they have very nice paper that holds up to painting and come in a few sizes.<br />
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They are also cheap. Now with watercolour paint the paper will buckle but it is thick enough to get some paint effects that you don't get on lightweight paper.<br />
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Amazingly Michaels has a good bound sketchbook, their <a href="https://www.michaels.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-MichaelsCanada-Site/en_CA/Search-Show?cgid=845163281">Artist Loft one,</a> which comes in lots of great colours actually has pretty good paper in it. You will have to maintain the binding with tape as you go though.<br />
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I also really like these <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Pentalic-Nature-Sketch-9-Inch-6-Inch/dp/B004MW59O4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=nature+sketch+books&qid=1568222124&s=gateway&sr=8-1">Nature Sketch</a> books. It has some of heaviest paper out there in a sketchbook.<br />
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The Nature Sketch books have off white (buff) paper in them.<br />
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Here is the Nature Sketch and the Peter Pauper Press side by side.<br />
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I also make a lot of sketchbooks using a <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Zutter-Innovative-Products-2811-Bind-It-All/dp/B001TBING2/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1K5Q2TINT5RG9&keywords=zutter+bind+it+all&qid=1568222062&s=gateway&sprefix=butter%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-2">Zutter </a>machine.<br />
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The <b>main reasons </b>I make my own are:<br />
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Another system I use <b>a lot </b>when working with really high quality watercolour paper is a hand bound book and detachable cover.<br />
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I then have a cover made from gatorboard and duct tape. I use an elastic to hold the wc paper book into the cover.<br />
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I could give you all the instructions but you just need to watch these videos if interested in this system.<br />
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One of the best parts of this system is that the cover is large enough when open that I can add these magnetic clips.<br />
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I prefer <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/MEEDEN-Empty-Watercolor-Metal-Transparent/dp/B0716S66K9/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2MFI8PJ20GL38&keywords=metal+watercolor+palette&qid=1568222211&s=gateway&sprefix=metal+watercolour+palette%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-6">metal watercolour palettes </a>so I can use those magnetic clips for both the sketchbook and on my easel.<br />
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For travelling my kit looks like this.<br />
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I put the water brushes, fountain pens, and molotow marker in a ziplock. This way I can easily remove it and set it out if I'm going thru airline security and the plastic bags helps with any leaks I may have.<br />
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One hint I also usually put a paper towel in that plastic bag to absorb any leaks. I find my fountain pens may leak a bit while flying due to cabin pressure.<br />
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I have been seeing a lot of these flower letters lately but wasn't sure how successful it would be as a school project.<br />
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So I came up with an <b>art hack</b> to make it a bit easier. Click on image to see larger.<br />
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- good painting paper, more about this in a minute<br />
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The paper I am using is this white construction paper by <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Pacon-Sunworks-Construction-12-Inchx18-Inch-100-Sheet/dp/B002LARR8K/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_229_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1W43ZA3A55B8C0X3V5AX">SunWorks</a>. I really like it. The white is not actually construction paper but more like a good quality sketch paper with a bit of texture. It works well as a student painting paper..... you will still have some buckling but it is much better than just regular paper. It's cheap too :)<br />
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<b>First the HARD way</b>, I traced out a letter on the paper in pencil.<br />
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Then using disk tempera and a small brush I began adding leaves and flowers. You need to maintain the edges of the letter so you need to be very careful while painting.<br />
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You also need way more flowers and leaves then you might think to get a good impression of the letter.<br />
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I don't know about you but I was thinking there has got to be an easier way for students.<br />
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So now the <b>EASY way:</b><br />
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I still traced out a letter....<br />
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But this time I didn't really worry about maintaining the edges of my letter I just started painting.<br />
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I did this one with just leaves but again I am not worried about my edges.<br />
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I then take my letter tracer and trace and cut a letter out of poster board or painting paper. (You can also use your cricut or Ellison machine)<br />
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Here is a side by side for you to compare.<br />
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Now you don't just have to do flowers. I did the all leaf one, a cactus one, and a sunflower one.<br />
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Here is a little cheat sheet on how I painted everything. (click to see larger)<br />
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Hope that gives you some inspiration and I will see you next time.<br />
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So I found a picture on Pinterest of kids painting these snowy village paintings but no directions so I broke it down for you. Many thanks to the original art teacher for such a great idea :)<br />
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With the white pencil crayon trace around the houses.<br />
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Add a little chalk around the moon and smudge for a glow.<br />
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So in the midst of our snowy winter some nature journaling is needed. We always have access to reference photos, museums, and the zoo is also an alternative.<br />
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Now this is not a paid endorsement I am just so blown away by these books and his blog I needed to let you know.<br />
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For Christmas I asked for these 2 amazing books.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Laws-Guide-Nature-Drawing-Journaling/dp/1597143154">The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling </a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Laws-Guide-Drawing-Birds/dp/159714195X/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=M44DY04XTYSG8RCWXBBS">The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds.</a><br />
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There is so much information packed into these books I could not believe it....amazing.<br />
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Here is the <a href="https://johnmuirlaws.com/blog-archives/">link to his blog archive</a>. He teaches a lot, videos his lessons and puts them on youtube.<br />
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I watched his <a href="https://johnmuirlaws.com/draw-waves-whales-video-workshop/">whale sketching videos</a> and then went to the <a href="http://www.sparkscience.ca/">Whales Tohora exhibit at Telus Spark.</a><br />
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For you teachers out there please check out <a href="https://johnmuirlaws.com/">his blog </a>and videos, he often has kids in his audience. There is so much information he details about his subject matter while teaching you how to draw it.<br />
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I have been meaning to do this project for a long time......it doesn't have to be Valentine themed but with the heart at the bottom I couldn't resist.<br />
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I used the book page strips to cover the cardboard shape on both sides. I used some of the paper towel strips to build up the wing area. I covered this with more book page strips.<br />
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This is an easy Christmas tree project. Good for kinders on up.<br />
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I did the same for my ornaments but did both sides.<br />
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Here you can see the colour variations I use for the painted papers. A lot more interesting this way.<br />
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I glued this at the top of my background. I then cut a smaller circle out of some glitter paper and glued that on the yellow circle.<br />
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Here is a Nativity Collage I came up with complete with templates.<br />
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<b>- paper for painting parts of collage, I used this white construction paper, which really isn't construction paper but beautiful drawing paper.....my secret weapon to keep costs down</b><br />
<b>- acrylic, liquid tempera, or disk tempera for painting collage papers</b><br />
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<b>- <i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yesi7ea9gckjxINJatbQNuf1tKQjwbpl/view?usp=sharing">TEMPLATE1</a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EMFzWVszL6Z9H2wYhdqMS2cjjWKop29q/view?usp=sharing">TEMPLATE 2,</a> please feel free to use mine</i></b><br />
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Now I paint the background using disk tempera. I add a little black to my blue at the top and work my way down with just blue. I think a purple and magenta sky would be great as well.<br />
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I also painted some scraps of paper a skin tone (whatever shade you wish) and a brown for Joseph's beard, a black would also be nice.<br />
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Using the templates I trace the pattern on the back of my painted paper. (if you want the arrangement to look like mine make sure you trace the back of the pattern pieces) Glue into place, Joseph's body should fit nicely into the corner of background.<br />
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I glued the face and beard of Joseph into position. I added a band for his head using a bit of the paper I painted for Baby Jesus.<br />
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I then glued on Mary's body, she overlaps Joseph a bit. Added her face and another band for her head.<br />
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Baby Jesus is added into Mary';s arms. I cut a white inner circle for around the baby's head out of regular white paper.<br />
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Finally I added some glitter glue on my star and radiation lines for that extra sparkle. Glitter never seems to photograph well for me so the finished project has more impact then you can see here.<br />
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Here is the next poppy project that I came up with, a negative poppy painting.<br />
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Negative painting is a hard skill to grasp so I love that this project gives students more practice at it.<br />
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I start by taping off my watercolour paper to my art board.<br />
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Using reds, orange, yellow and a little purple and blue I paint the paper. I am using a lot of water to make the paint flow. The purple and blue are mixed with the red before dropping onto the paper to create the dark reds.<br />
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When painting is dry brush off the salt. You can see the effect you get in this picture.<br />
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Now I need to decide where my poppy flowers will be. I look at the paint and choose my favourite spots, places where the colours are rich and where the salt has created amazing effects.<br />
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I draw the outline of my flowers in these places including the stems and a few leaves.<br />
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When I have painted all the negative space black I leave my painting to dry.<br />
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I have already had requests for new Poppy projects for November so I have come up with a few.<br />
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This is a chalk pastel version using the white glue on black paper method.<br />
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I am very fond of this technique as it always produces winners but I added a bit of twist this time.<br />
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With a pencil draw out your design on black paper.<br />
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Using white school glue or tacky glue go over your lines with a bead of glue.<br />
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When I am using chalk pastels I approach it just like a painting, adding light colours for highlights, dark colours for shadows. Each poppy is made up of several colours not just red.<br />
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Here are the poppies all filled in.<br />
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Now you could just stop here or add a background. I wanted a background but I did not want to use chalk pastel.<br />
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So I chose to use acrylic paint. You want a colour that will give you a chalkboard like effect so pick a lighter more 'pastel' colour.<br />
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You can see what I mean here. I am also criss crossing my strokes. I do this because the brush strokes show up quite a bit using this method and I don't want long brush stroke lines that the eye will follow rather than looking at my poppies.<br />
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When the paint dries I decide to take it a bit further.<br />
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The trees are a swirl of brightly coloured leaves, or at least they were until we had some really strong winds and they all blew away.<br />
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Here is a great little fall project.<br />
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Tape paper onto art board using masking tape. This will give us a nice white border.<br />
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Using white and blue paint your background. You want a white oval off centre and then light blue and darker blue. Have the kids paint in a circular motion.<br />
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This one was with acrylic.<br />
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Starting with brown, paint dashes around our oval.<br />
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We then add orange covering some of our brown dashes and work a little closer into the oval.<br />
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These<b> Sunset Weavings</b> are a result of my Canada 150 focus and trying to find new ways to expand my circular weaving options for my younger students.<br />
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I love circular weavings, it's where I start after paper weavings with Division 1 kids, (Kinder - Grade 1).<br />
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- lighthouse on the rocks 'Peggy's Cove'<br />
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Before we start I just want to say the directions look complicated but really they are not. I'm just trying to give you all the tips and ways of doing this that I find have worked the best.<br />
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Using a circular item, the size you want your weaving to be, trace onto heavy corrugated cardboard.<br />
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I use heavy cardboard because kids are not the most gentle with their looms. They can pull really hard on the yarn and sometimes I see those looms flying like Frisbees, you know exactly what I mean.<br />
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You need to poke a hole thru the center of your cardboard. I use a knitting needle.<br />
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You then need to cut 15 notches around your circle.<br />
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I never measure I just cut 4 notches first to divide my circle into quarters, like 12 o clock, 3 o clock, 6 o clock, 9 o clock but I purposely cut 1 quarter smaller than the others.<br />
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I then cut 3 notches into my bigger sections and only 2 notches in my smaller section. This way I can cut the many class sets I have to make fast.<br />
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Cut a length of string to thread your loom. I like to just use plain household string. You don't see it in the final weaving and it does not get fuzzy while you are weaving.<br />
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If using a needle, thread it and then knot the little tail onto the needle. This stops you from having to keep threading the needle when the kids pull to hard.<br />
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On the end that does not have the needle I secure it into a notch, any notch, leaving a little bit so I can tie a knot. Pass the needle thru the hole and pull tight. Tie the little end you left to the string you just pulled thru. This will now be the back of the loom.<br />
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Pull string tight and then fit into the next notch, pass the needle to the front of the loom and thru the hole again.<br />
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Continue until all notches are strung.<br />
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On that last notch tie off the string to the back onto one of the other strings. It won't look right but this is the back. It's important that you only have 15 strings showing in the front.<br />
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Now we are going to tie on the first colour we are going to weave with. I am using white to start on these Sunset weavings. Cut a length about the 3-4 ft. I tell kids to stretch their arms out and cut a length that long.<br />
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Choose a string on the loom to start at, doesn't matter which one.<br />
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Begin weaving using the pattern <b>over under over under.</b><br />
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I tell my young kids that the needle is like a rabbit, it dives under the first string, hops over the next one, then dives under the next one and so on.<br />
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When you have woven over/under along 4 or 5 strings pull the needle so that all the slack in white yarn is taken up and then continue weaving.<br />
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Before cutting thread the needle under some of the existing weaving.<br />
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Then cut the yarn carefully so you don't cut any of the weaving.<br />
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Tie one end onto a string, I usually choose one opposite to where I finished because I do not want too many knots hidden in the same place. It will make a bump in your weaving.<br />
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We are just painting that little bit of cardboard that is exposed. If you want you can prime it first with some white paint, let it dry and then paint the finishing colour.<br />
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When the paint has dried cut the black felt for your silhouette. <br />
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Here I cut my mountain range first.<br />
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I then turned the felt and loom to the back and using a white pencil crayon or china marker I traced the edge of the loom.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2010/10/woven-eyes-frogs.html">Frogs</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2015/09/woven-owls-and-weavy-loops.html">Woven Owls</a><br />
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Finally the winner of the<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Loom-Weaving-Projects-Creating/dp/1612436633"> "Little Loom Weaving" by Andreia Gomes </a>is<br />
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<b><i>Kathy Hardman from Ontario</i></b><br />
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Thanks everyone for entering and don't worry I have more book giveaways happening all summer long. :)<br />
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Take care everyone and DO SOME WEAVING!<br />
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<br />Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-91882612480020531732017-07-22T08:08:00.002-06:002017-07-22T08:15:46.978-06:00Little Loom Weaving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a little book that was passed on to me by my friends at Ulyssess Press.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Loom-Weaving-Projects-Creating/dp/1612436633">"Little Loom Weaving " by Andreia Gomes.</a></b><br />
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I have spent the last couple of weeks going thru this book backwards and forwards. First off it's a smaller book, 9" x 7.5". Perfect to just slide into a tote or beach bag for some summer reading. <br />
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It's 111 pages and outlines 14 projects in total.<br />
A great little book for someone who is just starting in weaving and it has some interesting project ideas for us veterans.<br />
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It also shows you how to make your own loom out of a picture frame, most little looms are still pretty pricey. I have 2 class sets of looms made from picture frames and they work very well. The only thing I do differently is I put a back on mine. It makes them more stable and durable for school.<br />
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<b>THINGS I LIKED:</b><br />
<b>- </b>goes thru the basics in a easy to follow way, you can start weaving and soon as you have your loom.<br />
- suggestions for minimizing draw in, that's when kids pull too tight and the weaving looks too skinny in the middle.<br />
- using Rya knots and the Soumak technique, good for projects where you want to challenge yourself a little, still applicable for kids<br />
- good explanation of open slit and interlocking technique for tapestry weaving<br />
- how to take circular weaving to the next level, tying it off the circular loom and then how to display. I will definitely be doing this.<br />
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<b>WHAT I WOULD CHANGE:</b><br />
- The only thing I would change is add a few different projects, I was a bit disappointed that there were several wall hanging projects. They were all different mind you, but I know for school I would have to adapt them into something else.<br />
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<b>TAKEAWAYS: </b><br />
- I love this plant hanger, easier for kids than macramé and very similar to my <a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2010/09/basket-weaving-using-recycled.html">Basket Weaving project. </a>except you will have pot they can plant in and a hanger as well. It's just screaming Mother's Day project to me.<br />
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So there is 1 copy of <b><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Little-Loom-Weaving-Projects-Creating/dp/1612436633">"Little Loom Weaving"</a></b> up for grabs. Leave me a comment or like this post on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Thatartistwoman/">Facebook</a>. You can also email me directly at <i>thatartistwoman@shaw.ca</i><br />
Canadian and US residents only please. <b><i>(postage is kicking me these days)</i></b><br />
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I will make the <b><i>random</i></b> draw Monday morning as I will be posting a new weaving project, you get a little sneak peek here.<br />
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Good luck everyone.<br />
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<br />Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-60988162470593162982017-01-28T14:13:00.000-07:002017-01-28T14:13:20.327-07:00Valentine Snowman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a cute Valentine project for your bulletin board, art journal or to go home for Mom and Dad.<br />
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<b>MATERIALS REQUIRED:</b><br />
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<b>- wc paper or heavy painting paper for background</b><br />
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<b>- rubbing alcohol spray or piece of household sponge</b><br />
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<b>- white cardstock or poster board</b><br />
<b>- black, red and orange paper scraps</b><br />
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Tape off your background paper. Using blue disk tempera paint your background.<br />
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To give your background texture and make it look like it's snowing try one of these techniques:<br />
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- spray on some rubbing alcohol, I just buy it from the dollar store (supervise the kiddos for this one)<br />
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- sponge on a little white tempera<br />
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When background has dried paint some snow on bottom of page.<br />
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Out of some white cardstock or poster board cut 3 circles. I traced around 3 different tapes I had lying around.<br />
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I want to define my circles a bit so I took a white oil pastel and outlined the circles. I have kids place it on a scrap piece of paper and colour on the outline so that it is half on the circle and half on the paper.<br />
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With your finger smudge that pastel around the outline, you should get a grey smudge.<br />
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Glue on your circles, overlapping them.<br />
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Now add your details. Cut out a hat from the black paper scraps and glue it on. Use oil pastel to add eyes, mouth and arms.<br />
Add a red paper heart and an orange paper carrot nose.<br />
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Finally you can add some glitter glue to the snow and snowman for that extra sparkle.<br />
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I think they are adorable!<br />
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I have 2 penguin weaving projects for you.<br />
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and this yarn woven penguin using a loom.<br />
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<b>- 1 piece of white cardstock (8.5x11), 1 piece of blue cardstock, I piece of black cardstock, and 1 sheet of drawing paper (8.5x11)</b><br />
<b>- scraps of white paper and orange paper</b><br />
<b>- white and silver paint</b><br />
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<b>- pencil, white pencil crayon, scissors</b><br />
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First off I want to take my 1 piece of drawing paper and cut it in half the short way.<br />
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I want some interesting papers to weave into my penguin so I alter my 2 pieces of drawing paper.<br />
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It really doesn't matter what you do just make the 2 papers look different.<br />
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Fold your piece of white cardstock in half the short way.<br />
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Refold your paper and cut out the belly while folded, that way you get a symmetrical opening.<br />
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Before I glue my blue paper in place I need to trace my belly onto the black paper. I missed this step so I used the piece that was cut away but I think it would be easier for your students to just place the blue page on top of the black and trace in the belly.<br />
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Using the black paper that is leftover and some scraps of white and orange I cut and glue on the details of my penguin.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Yarn Woven Penguin:</span></u></b><br />
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Using that same black string I now start weaving on only 3 strings on the closest end.<br />
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After the 50 rows I continue weaving for another 10 but I include all strings on the loom.<br />
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Turn to the front and using felt add details.<br />
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I did 2 versions. A large 12"x18" (bulletin board size) and then a smaller 9"x12". (art journal size)<br />
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<b>- background paper, use good heavy painting paper or wc paper</b><br />
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Place your paper on your art board. I like to tape my sides to hold it down and to get that nice white border.<br />
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With a pencil draw a path. <br />
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Paint with blue tempera along the sides of the path. Get nice bright colour so make sure the students swirl that paintbrush on the disk well.<br />
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I wanted a snow effect so while the paint was still wet I used a Kleenex to lift some of that paint. Similar to what we do when lifting clouds.<br />
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For the small one I concentrated where my lifting was like a snowbank.<br />
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For the large one I kinda did it all over. It's up to you but I wanted you to see both results.<br />
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I then painted the path. You can use disk tempera or liquid. I used acrylic as that was what I had on hand in the studio.<br />
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To add some texture to the path I mixed a darker grey, (just added some more black) and painted some bubble wrap and bumpy foam.<br />
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For the small version I didn't even paint the path just added the dark grey texture onto the white path.<br />
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While your background is drying let's make the penguins.<br />
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You start with the bellies. They are a rounded triangular shape. You want one large one and 2 smaller ones for perspective.<br />
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For the large version you can get 3 out of a 8.5x11 piece of paper. For the smaller just cut the paper in half and set it up the same way.<br />
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Once the bellies are cut out use them to draw out your head and wings.<br />
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I call them wishbones you'll see what I mean in a moment.<br />
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I traced them in white so you could see them. Use a white pencil crayon if the kids have a hard time seeing their pencil lines on the black paper.<br />
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See what I mean they look like wishbones.<br />
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For the large one you are going to need 1 and 1/4 pieces of black paper. For the small just 1 sheet.<br />
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These are King penguins so we are going to add some colour with the oil pastels.<br />
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You can put some white pastel under the wings.<br />
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I added some snowflakes. I have this great Martha Stewart snowflake punch that I use constantly during the winter. Kids love punching snowflakes.<br />
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Prior to Christmas I did these clay landscape plaques with Grade 5.<br />
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They had to choose one of the six geographical regions of Canada.<br />
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I was quite impressed with their work.<br />
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Roll out your clay to a good sized rectangle, 8x10 or so.<br />
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My slab is about a pinky finger thickness.<br />
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Before I cut the plaque out I figure out the shape.<br />
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I draw into the clay with my finger. I usually draw it with less pressure but I wanted you to see it here.<br />
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Using the nail cut your shape out and lift away the excess.<br />
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I tell the kids to make sure they push the nail down to the fabric, "you should feel the fabric on the end of the nail".<br />
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Before I forget I make the hole for hanging with the head of the nail pushed all the way thru.<br />
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Now it's time to start our design. I have reference photos for the kids of the 6 geographical regions. They pick one and create their scene.<br />
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With the leftover clay from the slab they begin cutting pieces out for the landscape. We want to stay flat like a cookie for these pieces.<br />
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I use the good old "scratch, scratch, water, water". I teach the kids that chant before we start. To <i>'glue' </i>our clay pieces together we first make surface scratches in the base where our pieces are to go. I use my finger dipped in water to rub water over these scratches.<br />
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I then repeat the process on the back of my landscape pieces.<br />
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I then tell the kids the scratches have to kiss. They usually groan at this idea but it gets the point across and clay gets attached correctly.<br />
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If you have extra scratches in your base just erase them with a swipe of water from your finger.<br />
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Continue to add pieces to your landscape keeping them flat so your plaque doesn't get too thick.<br />
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Scratch your name into the back of the plaque, have a partner hold it while you do this.<br />
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The landscapes then get put away to dry out for 1 to 2 weeks. I utilize the library for this, placing them on newspaper on top of the bookshelves.<br />
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Love this prairie one.<br />
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Although not a geographical region the students were allowed to do Calgary. <br />
This student took her time and made a terrific cityscape.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Gail</b></span>Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-82809673753205824752016-12-04T16:24:00.000-07:002017-01-10T09:58:27.150-07:00Modern Clay Nativity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year Grade 6 did a modern clay nativity. I'm still firing them but my sample is done so I can show you.<br />
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The original inspiration was a picture on Pinterest that was unglazed and with no instructions so this my adapted version for school.<br />
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It comes in 3 pieces that nest together. That way you can put Mary and Joseph out early and then add baby Jesus on Christmas Day.<br />
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Each student gets a fabric mat for their desk. <br />
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I give each student some clay. They roll a slab about 1 inch thick.<br />
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With their finger they gently trace out a triangle shape. Round the sides of the triangle. No taller than the size of their hand.<br />
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Using the nail the cut out this shape. Here you can see the thickness of the clay. I use the width of my finger as a guide.<br />
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If I turn it over you can see the base has become wider and by tapping I get that nice flat bottom for stability.<br />
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I spent a little time smoothing the clay so I don't have any creases on the inside of my Joseph body from where it goes from thin to thick at the bottom.<br />
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First up this mini Santa. He is only 15 cm or 6 inches high. Made with easy to find items from the Dollar store.<br />
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The body of the Santa is this red shot glass I got at the Dollar store. Still very affordable.<br />
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For craft day we paint these ahead of time. Easiest way is to stick them on a skewer paint and then stick skewer into a Styrofoam block to dry.<br />
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Now add some hair (it also helps us glue on the hat).<br />
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I take that same snow fabric and pull it a bit to make a clump. Put some glue on top of head and press hair in place.<br />
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For the beard I use some white fun fur. You want the short kind, just a bit fuzzy. If you can't find any you could use white fleece fabric.<br />
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Now it's time to add a hat. The hat starts as a triangle of red fleece fabric.<br />
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These can decorate your tree or sit on the mantle. You could even use them as place settings for your Christmas dining table.<br />
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<br />Gail Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15549902387435797475noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935245842937611173.post-29753971269115088612016-11-10T10:37:00.000-07:002016-11-10T15:16:56.972-07:00Squirrel Portrait and a new Sharpie Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is my day on the Sharpie Blog Roll in support of a new book by <b><a href="http://artprojectsforkids.org/"><i>Kathy Barbro</i>, "Sharpie Art Workshop for Kids".</a></b><br />
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I'm especially thrilled because I was one of the project contributors. Kathy has put together an awesome book and it was amazing to be part of it. You can check out her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KABarbro/"><b>Facebook</b> page</a> to enter the giveaway contest.<br />
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I also have this great squirrel <a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2012/08/monoprint-studies.html">mono print</a> that has sharpie details to share with you.<br />
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<b>MATERIALS REQUIRED:</b><br />
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<b>- wax paper</b><br />
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To make our mono print with have to prep our papers.<br />
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We are going to make a paper booklet.<br />
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You need a piece of drawing paper, a piece of wax paper, and a piece of construction paper.<br />
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Cut them so they are all the same size. I use a sharpie to mark the size I need on the wax paper.<br />
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Line all 3 pieces up and staple them together along one of the short ends. I use a line of about 5-6 staples.<br />
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I'm going to be going back and forth thru the pages so I make a fold to make this easier.<br />
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Open up your booklet to the drawing paper.<br />
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Make your squirrel drawing. I find it helpful to provide younger kids with a tail shape to base their drawing off of.<br />
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When finished, outline with <span style="font-size: x-small;">(you guessed it)</span>...Sharpie.<br />
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Fold the wax paper page over top the drawing, you should be able to see it clearly thru the wax paper.<br />
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We are going to paint on the wax paper and then transfer this to the construction paper. It helps to work in a small section at a time and it also helps to have your paint a bit watery. I use a spray bottle to add a bit of water to my paint.<br />
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I'm using black construction paper so I make sure to add white to all my paint colours. It makes them show up better on the black paper.<br />
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Here I'm painting in the tail. I only work in small sections because I need to transfer my print while the paint is wet.<br />
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When I finish painting in the tail I fold the black paper over and give it a bit of a press.<br />
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Construction paper works best for these mono prints as it soaks up the paint, other papers like cardstock can slip and smudge.<br />
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Slowly pull the construction paper back and the paint will have transferred from the wax paper.<br />
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Now you can add the final details. I used black sharpie, white sharpie, silver sharpie, and brown sharpie.<br />
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I love this mono print project and I use it a lot at school. I have another post showing this process only with an <a href="http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2012/08/monoprint-studies.html">eagle <b>here</b></a><b>.</b><br />
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Be sure to check out <a href="http://artprojectsforkids.org/"><b>"Sharpie Art Workshop for Kids" by Kathy Barbro</b></a> and see if you can find my project.<br />
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