School Paints: Free Painting Activities for teachers in the classroom

Simple paint by numbers for kids. Simple paint by numbers for classroom This is a fun way to do something completely different with paint in the classroom. Be open to using new colour combinations in this fun exercise.   Sometimes it is fun to team up with another person, one person does the outline and the other does the painting. Make a Colour Key Make A Colour Key: Paint your colour key on a separate piece of paper numbering each colour as you go.  Be open to the colour combinations.  Anything goes.  Draw your outlines to paint by numbers Draw Your Outline: Use a permanent black marker to draw an outline freehand with overlapping loops and lines. Try to keep your outline design simple with some large spaces and smaller spaces. It is easy to overcomplicate this by making too many areas to fill in later with paint. Lightly with a pencil, number each enclosed section on your outline using the numbers you have on your colour key.   Some sections can be left

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Hot Or Cold? You Decide! by Ron Gribble Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .   Hot Or Cold? You Decide! Do not try to make a colour that is neither hot nor cold. Neither hot nor cold is to be grey, and that is one step away from mud. This is a secret that took me ages to finally think about long enough to realise that I was missing out on simplifying my colour mixing. If you decide early, what do you want? Now you must make sure that you are choosing pigments that allow you to achieve this end. I am not saying that you should not have cool colours in a hot colour mix, or the other way round, but I am saying that you should favour one or the other. There are many wonderful opportunities that you will miss out on if you do not understand the importance of using hot and cold colours in contrast to each other. Any colour will probably have elements of cool and warm in them, but when they are in shade, they will have more of the cool blues, and

Children’s liquid Watercolour School Paints – Is it a dye or a paint? If you look around websites at school paints these days you see Tempera, Poster Paint, Gouache and now in the last 7 years or more there are these watercolours. Brands like Discount School Supplies “Liquid Watercolor” and  Sargent Art “Watercolor Magic” are popping up. What are they?  Are they new? Is it a Watercolour Paint or a School Dye? A watercolour or a dye? Sargent Art “Watercolor Magic” Dyes: Using waterbased dye in the classroom as an educational painting experience  has been around for over 40 years in a lot of countries like Australia, England, New Zealand & Singapore.  But it would seem that it is a relatively new thing in USA. This may be why it is considered it as a magic watercolour. Is it a Paint or a Dye? Both these brands of watercolour paints are technically dyes and not paints. Liquid Watercolor and Watercolor Magic are vegetable based dyes but t

Painting with PVA Glue and School Paints: There are a lot of ways you can use glue to create fun colourful effects with paint. One of my favourites is to create glue resist paintings. Another great and fun idea is to get the children to paint a secret message on the paper, once dried mix up all the classes’ paintings so each child ends up with a secret mystery painting to discover with the painted sponge. Loads of fun! Painting with PVA Glue LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary. You will need: A bright coloured tempera poster paint  PVA Glue – in squeeze bottles is helpful Paper – Bright coloured paper is a great idea. Pencil Sponge or an old dish cloth. Simple designs seem to work best Let’s get started: Draw a design onto your paper lightly with a pencil and then go over it with PVA glue.  Or simply draw a design directly onto paper with using the glue. Using a small squeeze bottle is ideal for small hands but you could use a thin brush to paint your design if

Finger animals, flowers and bees. This is how you do it.  So Easy... Finger Print Chickens Finger Paint animal fun. Get the children using their hands with this fun thumb and finger print activity. The children will love getting their hands messy to create colourful fun animals and later they can then add details to give them life. In this activity the children will be using skills such as painting, drawing and writing. These are great to make fun Easter cards and they are personal to each child with their own unique thumbprint being using to create colourful artwork. LEVEL : Pre-school and Primary. You will need: Tempera Poster Paint – Yellow, Red and Black.  Any colours.. Paper Marker Pen Paper Towels – for wiping hands. Let’s get started: 1. Provide the children with the materials and explain that they are going to be making some paintings using their thumbs and fingers. 2. Paint a colour on to the fingers on one hand. One

Mixing Colours: by Ron Gribble Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .   It has been my experience that the hardest problem that all artists face is mixing their paints to make the colours that they are wanting. About 80% of my painting time is spent mixing colours. If I could teach that one thing with a magic ‘bullet’ I would patent the idea, and go on a world speaking tour. It does not matter if your medium of choice is Oils, Water colours, Acrylics, Pastels, or whatever else that I have forgotten to mention, the problems and mistakes are all the same. There are however some very pointed tips that will help you to focus your attention on each of the problems. If you already have the talent, and the desire to put in the hard work, I can shorten the learning curve for you. I will post my detailed answer to each of the headings below. I invite you to consider the following; Know your colours on your pallet. Three or four mixed toget

Keep your Work Space Clean. by Ron Gribble    Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .      Not only clean, but organised also. If you cannot control the colour while it is on your pallet, how can you hope to control it on your painting??  If you are not organised you will get frustrated, and rush it. Near enough is not good enough, and never will be. Below is my studio pallet set up on glass. There are some points below that will help you to achieve nice clean colours;  A simple idea but it works so well. Never mix colours with a brush. There is no quicker way to lose control of a colour. Note the Pallet Trowel that I use above. This does not have your knuckles receiving as much paint as the brush does. Clean your pallet off regularly, you cannot be too fussy. When you switch to light colours, clean it off again. If you are painting outside ( Pleine Aire ) then you should be making sure that the wind does not destroy your ability to

Painting with Indian Ink: Try Painting with Indian Ink - Artworks by Jade Sintes Indian ink is often under appreciated as a medium for painting.  But the results can be stunning with bold dark black brushstrokes that can be varied from thick to thin in the very same brush movement. What is Indian Ink? Indian ink is a black ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comic characters and comic strips. It is thin like water yet bold and dark in colour. This can be diluted with water to make shades of grey. Brushes or Dip Pens? When it comes to painting with Indian ink the dip pen will offer the artist finer details and a lot of the techniques that are used with pencils, like shading and hatching. The pen is easier to use and can be a quicker way to get your ideas on paper quickly.  However, for bold and expressive artworks, the brush is the tool that will give you that full bodied brushstrokes that you jus

Atmosphere. How Does This Effect My Colours? by Artist Ron Gribble Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .   The answer is everywhere. If you are painting a still life, in the corner of a shed somewhere, it is going to be less, because there is less distance in your painting. But the more distance you put into your painting, the more that atmosphere is going to be a factor. What do I mean by atmosphere? The way that light and thus colour is changed by the water particles, or lack of water particles that exists in the atmosphere of the day. The time of day, the heat of the day, the time of year, the place on Earth where you are painting, there are so many factors, that will all combine to make each day what it is. This atmospheric colour will be the dark colours that are visible in your scene, from the front right through to the back.  How Does This Effect My Colours The atmospheric colour will be lighter in the back, as the distant colour