Oh what fun we had today making five textured backgrounds upon which to place our ephemera. We used hair dryers to move along the drying process, paint, plastic wrap, masking tape, gel medium, and pages from the phone book to create the grounds for the first 90 minutes. Then, it got really, really quiet while everyone worked on putting images onto the grounds.
Success: the canvas paper worked well for today's lesson and having each student use the same paint for all five of their pieces allowed them to see how each different technique varied.
Learning: give students a second brush to keep with the matte medium so it doesn't get tainted with paint from their painting brush.
2 comments:
love these!
Thanks for your comment Laurie! They were really fun to make. I love "teaching art," which is really just a good excuse to do art at least once per week.
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