School Paints: Free Painting Activities for teachers in the classroom

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 vegetab...

School paints that are designed for use with children can easily become contaminated with bacteria or mould, this also can lead to a very strong sickening odour. Some school paint I found for sale in a shop that was contaminated. The paint is seperated in the bottle. School Paint is very different to crayons and pencils as “all children’s liquid paint is an alive product” until it dries on your paper.   No matter what brand type or colour it will need some care to prolong its workable life. Just like canned food in the supermarket a preservative is added to a paint formulation to keep the paint in top condition.     As this type of paint often contains organic materials that can decay if not stored properly or if stored for a long period of time. School paints differ from house paint as it is used once for one project but using School Paints we are using the same paint day after day and again and again.    Extra care is needed to k...

School Paints v UV Glow Party Paints: All Blacks | New Zealand world champion rugby team It's the latest craze to throw paint at each other. Better still is the UV glow fluorescent paint colours.  In fact its been around for a while but now it's really catching on... Here is the 'All Blacks" (the New Zealand world champion rugby team) throwing around the local brand FAS's UV glow fluorescent paint. All Blacks | New Zealand Rugby team play with FAS | Super Tempera Paint UV glow fluorescent paint. If you utube "UV Glow Paint parties" you'll be surprized at what they are doing with school paints now. Share and enjoy Tony Parker www.schoolpaints.com www.FASpaints.com Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .  

Artist Brush Selection Guide: School Paints [ Follow us on Facebook  and Pinterest  ] High quality finely balanced brushes are the most important tools of an artist’s trade. Their design and manufacture demands precision, patience and skill. There is an extensive range of artist paint brushes available and in a vast range of brush hairs. Artist Brush Selection Guide  - Click Here to zoom in The Handle: Many school-type and mass-produced handles are made of unfinished raw wood. These are the least expensive, become easily soiled and the wood often swells in use.  stubby brushes School brush handle: Known as stubby brushes.   They are a short woodened handled brush with a head that is made of hog hair.   It offers the wide thick handle that is ideal for small hands and can come in either round or flat shaped head.   Artist-type handles are made of seasoned hardwood, lathe shaped and properly balanced to give ...

What is a Gesso? with school paints White Gesso Gesso is a primer, sealer or an undercoat. Artists’sometimes apply it to a surface before painting on it. The word Gesso is Italian for "chalk" or from the Latin ‘gypsum’. It is normally a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these. In short it looks a lot like paint but dries to a chalky finish. The most popular formulation is water based and this is suitable to use as a primer and undercoat for both acrylic and oil based paints. Gesso is the most used medium in all art studios. Don't use under waterbased tempera poster paint . Why use a Gesso? It is used as an undercoat to intensify colours and extend the lasting durability of your work. Gesso seals absorbent surfaces and it offers the surface a little more texture (tooth), so the paint sticks better. It also helps to prevent uneven appearance and excessive fast drying, re...

Acrylic art paints have been around since the late 1940’s. They are an alternative to the traditional oil paints. At the time of being introduced acrylics turned the artist paint industry upside down.   By making the impossible now totally possible.   Similar to what the iPod and iTunes did to music.   What is an Acrylic Paint? Acrylic’s dry fast, can be thinned, washed and cleaned up with water but more importantly for use in schools they are non-smelly and are so much safer. But that’s not all; an acrylic medium can be added to an acrylic paint to turn it into almost anything you can think of from a fabric paint to a block printing ink.   You can even thicken acrylics, slow down the drying time or just water it down and use as a watercolour.     All this was not possible before acrylics came along.   An Oil Paint could take months for just one colour alone to dry.   An Acrylic can take just 20 minutes.   How...

You will need: ·     Cup of salt ·     2 x cups of flour ·     4 x tablespoons of cooking oil ·     2 x cups of water ·     Powder paint or water based dye or food colouring ·     Old saucepan Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard . 1. Mix all the ingredients together in a saucepan.   Be careful with the dye as some concentrated dyes as some are extremely strong.   2. Adult: cook on medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes.   Stirring constantly until the mixture becomes stiff. Store the dough in an airtight container in the refrigerator.   It will last for quite a while and has the consistency of commercially prepared play dough. If you need addition colour it can be worked in to the dough. If anyone has any other tips please add them to the comments below. Share and enjoy Tony [ Follow us on Facebook  an...