School Paints: Free Painting Activities for teachers in the classroom

Teachers Tips on ideas for making art in the classroom: Always try to use the best materials that you can lay your hands on for each art lesson. Safe non-toxic paints with bright colours will give much better results than cheaper watery colours. Paper weight also makes a huge difference on the outcome of a painting. Promote fearfulness. New techniques sometimes require more than one go at it.   Let the children know that they are trying a new technique today and play with it and get fun ideas. Then the next day you can do this again using the ideas learnt today. This will get a no fear creative flow going. Try to use thoughtful language when working with children.   For example.   “Tell me about what you are painting” works much better than saying “what is that you are painting?”    Supervision: This is not just about safety.   Children are much more creative when they feel emotionally attached to what they are trying to create. ...

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 .  

How do YOU get paint out of clothing? FAS: Total Wash Kids Paint [ Follow us on Facebook  and Pinterest  ]   One of the questions most often asked about children’s paint is, "Is it washable?" Really totally washable from kids clothing? Parents often get annoyed when children come home with paint on their clothes. More than often the most colourful paints are "mostly washable" but not completely. And even with "washable" paints, the reds, dark blues and purples and some of the other colours don’t wash out completely. Stain Removers: There are stain removers that wash out the pigment but it still leaves a slight residual stain.  This is worst on lighter fabrics. Sometimes the chemicals in the stain removers react with the paint chemicals and set about helping to set the stain rather than removing it. We have tested some of the top international known brands and have found they don’t completely washout. That is why they ...

Primary Colours School Paints: Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .   Red , Yellow and Blue are the primary colours. Primary means first, so when you think of these three colours, think of them as the first colours.   Each one is a pure colour that cannot be created through the mixing of other colours. They are colours in their own right. The three primary colours can be seen below RED - YELLOW - BLUE. These three primary colours are ones you mix together to make all other colours. Primary colours are really bright and bold. This is because each one is pure, with no other colour mixed in with it.   This also means that they really stand out when you use them in your artwork. Mixing primary colours together creates the secondary colours. Secondary Colours: These colours are made from mixing the 3 primary colours together. Like Red and Yellow make Orange. Yellow and Blue make Green Blue ...

How do you mix a colour as dark as black, without black??  by Ron Gribble. How do you mix a colour as dark as black, without black?? I use a very dark blue, like Ultramarine, or Thalo, and mix it equally with a dark red, like Alizarin Crimson. These opposites tend to cancel each other out, and the result is a very dark neutral colour. You can add more of one or the other to make it tend towards hot or cold, or equal amounts to make it neutral. One thing that I look for though, is to make the colour "believable". The two pigments are very strong, and need toning down with an earth colour. If you make it as dark an earth colour as you can, you will still have a deep rich, almost black. I use Burnt Sienna, and add little at a time until I have the colour I need. This idea with Burnt Sienna is a good one to remember whenever you are mixing any very strong pigments together. Colour mixing; RULE TO NEVER BE BROKEN . 1. Add little bits at a time. Mix it together, and a...

COLOUR :  by Ron Gribble [ Follow us on Facebook  and Pinterest  ]   Lets look at colour. There is so much that can be said about it. We all know what colour is, but how do we mix it? How do we control it? How do you decide what colour you want, and where? How do we use complimentary colours? After a demonstration that I did at the Downtown Hilton Art Gallery once, a chap said to me that he had observed that I spent 80% of my time mixing colours!!! That leaves only 20% for all the other things!! It seems to me that we should be devoting a similar proportion of time in research and practice for this activity. I suggest that everyone should have a simple colour wheel beside their easel!! Go down to the hardware shop and pick one up. The colour wheel is very basic knowledge you could say. You left that behind at school, right? Then why is it that I see a very bad lack of the use of the colour wheel in paintings? Maybe, like me you did not fully...

Application & Personality: By Ron Gribble If you cannot do more than a photograph, then why take a photograph in the first place and save yourself a lot of time and agony! This is to a large degree my personal opinion, but it is also the opinion of many top art judges who allocate points to what they call "application" and "flair". In brief, how was the Paint or other medium applied? With confidence? Accurately but boldly? Can we see the artist's personality in the way he applies the medium? Does this application contribute to the over-all mood of the work? Lets look at a portrait for example. Is it rendered with brush strokes that are bold and angular to depict movement, or youth, or vertical and horizontal to depict a more conservative subject? I often see work that is very well done, but too photographic. The artist has used too little personal flair. This is a real problem when painting a portrait of a person or animal, that has to be abs...

UNDER-PAINTING: by Rob Gribble I first prepared the board by applying an acrylic, warm, mid tone colour to cover the white board. This is a lot more helpful than the dead plain white of the canvas. Light is warm, so whatever I am painting, this warm colour will not fight against my efforts. Once this is dry, apply what I call the TINT COLOUR . These pigments will be used in variations, throughout the painting. THESE PIGMENTS ARE ULTRAMARINE BLUE, ALIZARINE CRIMSON, COERULEUM BLUE. (There are many spellings of this pigment). I mixed these first in acrylic, as this will dry quickly, and be more stable as an under-painting. The patterns of colour that you will see (page 3) are random. I did allow the tint to be thicker where I intend to place the bluff and details however. I am going to attempt to work through a complete painting from start to finish.   I suggest that you read this whole demonstration through several times before you attempt to paint i...

Handprint fabric prints on t-shirts: LEVEL: Pre-school and Early Primary. This activity is always popular as a meaningful take home artwork for kids to give to their parents and grandparents.   They can be t-shirts, hats, towels or even pillow covers. You will need: : A solid colour cotton fabric to paint on.   More basic the better. : A permanent fabric ink or paint.   FAS Fastex textile ink is ideal. : Plastic table top or you can cover a table with a plastic sheet. : Paint brushes or sponges and shallow trays : Have plenty of water and old towels for a quick clean up. : Apron and a cover sheet or newspapers – plus paper towels. Let’s get started: Before you start be sure that children and clothing is well protected as this type of product is designed to stain clothing permanently. Pour a small amount of the fabric ink/paint into a shallow bowl or paper plate. Solid single bright colours are better than mixed colours.   Colours can...

Painting looses is no excuse... By Ron Gribble  [ Follow us on Facebook  and Pinterest  ]   When I see a painting that is painted ‘loose’, I immediately look to see if it is accurate in the draughmanship. By loose, I mean ‘Broad brush’, with impasto brushstrokes, or like pallet knife work. I had this discussion once with an ‘educated’ artist – who suffered many years in art school to learn the trendy definitions but with little practical application. I pointed out that is you want to illustrate a subject (in this case, a boat) in a landscape there are certain rules to obey.  My friendly degree holder retorted, “There are no rules in art”.  My response was “If that is true, what did you spend six years learning”?  I did not get an answer! Of course there are rules, a you must obey them if you want to accurately give the impression of the subject. The trick id to them so well that you know how to bend them, and which ones to bend, to ...