Plaster Mosaics: New Techniques as Easy as Spread, Paint, Carve

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Easily teach the concept of a horizon line while making a beautiful symmetrical pressed landscape. Fold paper in half, then transfer paints and pigments in a method similar to the Rorschach prints. After printing, add detail using markers. The process is customizable based on age. Just press for younger students, or add sophisticated details at older ages.

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Explore inner emotions using multiple layers and materials. The artist, Jesse Reno, uses trial and error, along with intuition to guide his process. Using wax pastels, acrylics and other media such as markers, many layers of imagery are created on a canvas panel. A fettling knife or tool allows scratching through layers to reveal the white of the canvas underneath. Only the artist knows. Explore urban renewal and build a glowing, colorful miniature community! Using strips of paper, make a simple folded house form. Cut windows and doors and "paint" with bright markers.

Velcro the sides, add a roof, and the village can be rebuilt again and again. Mocha Diffusion on Paper. Use inks and alcohol to create interactive diffused patterns on paper. Bright inks and common rubbing alcohol work together to create surprising results! Experiment with dark over light, or light over dark. Try applying alcohol with tools such as brush handles, by dripping, or with an atomizer bottle.

Use this technique in compositions or as a way to make decorative papers for other uses. Creating intricate drawings on clay is easy with the help of a little wax. Use colored slips as the base, then cover with wax.

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A detailed drawing is done with carving tools, removing the wax from the lines. Black slip is brushed onto the wax and settles only into the carved lines. Art in the Shadows. The stark contrast and the half-hidden mystery of a sihouette is a natural attraction for students. As a lesson illustrating positive and negative spacial relationships or to set the mood for Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, here's an idea for silhouettes with a built-in surprise Make a distinctive batik masterpiece on paper using ink crystals and simple resist.

By making a batik composition on paper, the ancient method is taught without the vats of dye and pans of melted wax! A gloss medium is trailed onto paper with a plastic squeeze bottle fitted with a writer tip. Next, powdered ink crystals are used wet or dry to create a modern interpretation of an ancient craft. Make a small scale sculpture tied to the history of found objects as art.

What is more plentiful in an art room than a well-used brush that may not have been fully cleaned each time? Whether one large brush, or many glued together, they can be used as the base for an interesting mixed media portrait. After the brush handle is cut, Paperclay makes the upper torso of the figure. Finish using small brushes, acrylic paint, and fine tip permanent markers. Start with a mask form and end up with an organic mixed media headpiece! With a nod to artist and performer Nick Cave, begin with a rigid mask form as a base. Add the repurposed parts of bendable chipboard insect sculptures, other embellishments, and found materials.

The result is a wearable and sculptural headdress! Make one for fun, or to make a statement! This new process keeps the sand suspended in waterbased adhesive so the mess that is usually associated with sand painting is greatly reduced. Make an up-close-and-personal sketchbook or journal cover by creating a "face book" out of a cast and painted high relief face.

Use quick mache to cast a face mold, then add modeling paste to customize the face. Create a realistic self-portrait, or morph the face into an animal or alien being! Finish with acrylic paint. Use animal symbolism to create a personal, stackable totem sculpture. Start with airdry clay to create a base and four animals, add a dowel rod, then stack!

Once dry, finish with gloss tempera, acrylics, or inks. The "second line" refers to the people that fall in behind a parade, dancing to the music, waving banners and twirling parasols. This tradition began post-Civil War with the now-famous Jazz Funeral of New Orleans, and today it fills the streets of the French Quarter regularly, is part of wedding celebrations, and has spread from its roots across the nation. Legends are plentiful about connections between humans and trees — what will your special tree reveal about you? This "Spirit Tree" is created from lengths of coiling core, glued together and wrapped with wire to impart flexibility to the branches.

It can be finished with paint and wire, and personalized with objects or images suspended from the branches or placed around its roots.


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A beginner's approach to abstract painting, inspired by the works of Wassily Kandinksy. In this lesson plan, students explore the point and line concept using a simple wooden tool to create a variety of marks on a paper surface. Blow up a Butterfly. Create an O'Keeffe-like butterfly wing in close detail using Plike plastic-like paper.

Next, add pastels along with iridescent and pearlescent mixing mediums to capture the affect of a butterfly's wing in close-up. Bowled Over by Picasso.

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Picasso viewed the ceramic vessels he painted on as a type of canvas that curved. Make a slump or hump molded bowl, then paint colorful imagery on it's interior using underglazes. Finish with clear glaze. Matisse Prints du Soleil. Creating self portraits is a snap with this easy technique! Create a whimsical patterned Bobble Head! Top with a pinch-pot head — and learn a lesson in balance. Black Velvet Mystery Painting. Applying oil pastels to black rayon fabric makes a striking composition, but when students add UV paint and a black light, the finished paintings really glow.

Experiment with Japanese paper-dyeing techniques using traditional rice papers, then share papers to create simple origami kimonos. The result is a stunning combination of art and culture. Make a sculptural shrine from an outgrown or second-hand shoe! For over years, the quill was the principle writing tool in the Western world. Imagine the stories, poems and sketches that can be made with a hybrid quill and dip pen designed to be a work of art in itself! Challenge Coins are specially designed and minted for service personnel to recognize an achievement, enhance morale, or to signify membership in or experience on a particular mission.

In Japan, Children's Day on May 5th is heralded by the appearance of flying fish: Construct a high-relief horse using Activa Fast Mache and found objects. Combine a painted and collaged background with a horse made of quick mache, sticks, pine needles, leaves, and shredded papers in the style of Debra Butterfield.

Composition — the way the elements of a piece of art are arranged and relate to each other — can be difficult to grasp. This lesson plan presents an easy, forgiving way to see the effects of composition while using the dimensional works of Frank Stella as an example. Easily make flower tiles by carving clay, filling with plaster, and finishing with liquid watercolors. Part cartoonist and part Picasso, the art of Brooklyn-born James Rizzi is highly recognizable.

A simple wire armature beneath allows the structure to be playfully positioned -— almost as if it were dancing. This project provides a lesson in movement as design principle. Easy-Outline Botanical Illustration Prints. Although photography and modern printing processes have replaced the need for cataloguing plant life with detailed drawn and painted illustrations, botanical illustration is still a beloved art. To make an accurate rendering of a plant, students can create an impression in plaster, then trace the shape and details with colored pencil, ink, or watercolor.

Mixing and shading for color accuracy and identifying the plant are some of the skills that will be learned in this exercise. A traditional Japanese weighted toy, Daruma always return to an upright position. Sound Sculpture Inspired by Jean Tinguely. In this lesson plan, students create a kinetic sculpture with repurposed metal hardware, found objects, and wire placed so that they deliberately move against one another.

In this lesson, students will first learn a simple process for creating their own drawing pad, then stain and design a canvas cover for it. These colorful, sparkling jellies are even water-resistant! The liquid wax used in this lesson plan is now tinted green. Artwork produced using this process will not look like the examples shown. Practice the ancient art of sumi-e painting with a modern twist! Paint with diluted wax resist, then reveal your masterpiece by applying black sumi-e ink over the top. The addition of watercolor gives the painting even more interest.

Observing and reproducing the distortion caused by a concave reflection is the topic of this lesson plan, as students make self-portraits inspired by M. In this project, students explore the beauty of texture found in a surprising place Texture is all around us, and oftentimes exists right under our noses. Tibetan wish or prayer flags traditionally are used to promote peace, compassion, strength and wisdom. Tibetans do not believe that the flags carry prayers to the gods, but rather that their messages and wishes will be blown by the wind to spread goodwill and compassion into all-pervading space.

In this project, students will use a liquid wax resist that will be painted onto silk rectangles and need not be removed. Vibrant color and a final gold embellishment finish the piece. WonderFoam is familiar to almost everyone who has ever presented a craft project to children — but, if you'd like to move beyond the "foamies" to a real art technique, incorporate WonderFoam into printmaking!

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Students learn to make repeating patterns with shapes. You won't believe what these markers can do! The juicy, alcohol-based ink reacts with itself or with hand-sanitizer to make painterly drawings on clear plastic film. This project utilizes acrylic paint, but in a totally unique way Acrylic paint "skins" are easily created just by brushing paint on a non-stick palette or baker's parchment and letting it dry. You can use this plastic, flexible paint in a number of ways to create mosaics, mixed media collage, stained glass-like effects, jewelry, book covers and more!

Functioning as both a painting and a print, a Monotype is unique and irreproducible. Fauvism is for the Birds! The colors the Fauves used are also favored by wild birds. Hummingbirds like red, orange and pink. Songbirds prefer colors that mimic trees and bushes. The practice of illumination — decoration of pages with ornate lettering, luminous color and precious metals, was developed during the middle ages when literacy was rare and books were even more so. With this process, students design one of their own initials on reflective board and add transparent color — it appears to glow with reflective light from within.

Traditionally, eggshell mosaics are made by first dying then positioning each shard individually — a time-consuming and delicate process. This project introduces a new way to crush and color eggshells, creating intricate veining and texture all at once without pre-dying or arranging each fragment. Late in his career, artist Marc Chagall produced a number of paintings in glass with colorful, dream-like images symbolizing peace, love, tolerance and faith.

Even if each shirt displays the same message, each will be a completely unique work of art! This process is perfect for group settings — schools, camps, daycare centers, clubs, family reunions and special events — but it is also ideal for countless home decorating and craft projects. Stencils and repeated patterns have been used in painting as long ago as 9, years, when early humans placed their hands against cave walls and outlined them in charcoal or paint.

In this lesson, even a stencil made of basic shapes can be effective. Each stencil can be used repeatedly, and by changing oil pastel color, overlapping images, or using only a part of an image, the result is a cohesive composition that has depth and color fusion. Molding, casting, sculpting, painting and monoprinting — this simple project pulls all of these together into one low-relief sculpture that demonstrates the elements of texture and color. Texture is defined in clay by pressing objects in or sculpting with tools. Itajime Shibori is a technique for folding, clamping and dyeing paper or fabric resulting in beautiful designs — very similar to tie-dye.

The folds and clamps keep the dye or ink from penetrating fully in certain areas making patterns and giving a dimensional appearance on a flat surface.

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This project is a great way to teach students the scientific concept of diffusion and color mixing. The easiest way to make colorful, three-dimensional paper flowers! Each flower costs just pennies to make. Because the watercolors blend together and form new hues, painting each bloom is a good way to illustrate color mixing. Beautiful pottery was mass-produced during this era, especially in the form of decorative tiles.

Tube lining — a technique in which a design outline was created first and then filled in with color — is the definitive look of Art Nouveau. Watercolor for the fun of it: You can draw, David Brown. Context Context of Technique Subfocus of. Carousel Grid List Card. Copy to clipboard Close. Cite Data - Experimental. Data Citation of the Topic Technique.

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