It’s summer time! It’s a perfect time of year to pull out the big messy art projects that look like a lot of fun, but require a lot of cleaning up or a lot of space. Take the projects outside! Use a hose for clean up, use the yard for space. And let the kids […]
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Printmaking Tutorial: Collagraphs, from Planning to Printing in One Session; project for K and up!
Collagraphy is an interesting way of making prints, so I really wanted to include it in the class. You generally use found objects- like the mesh that comes on your bags of onions, spaghetti noodles, or scrap fabric- which are then glued down on a surface, like matboard and then printed. The benefit to using […]
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Kandinsky Inspired Monoprints
I’ve seen a lot of tutorials out there on the interwebs for art projects based on Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky. Most involve painting concentric circles or cutting out circles. I was thinking of something that involved printmaking… no surprise there, right!? Well as my printmaking students were doing their monoprints the other day, I […]
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