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Lesson Overview

CREATE FROM YOUR HOUSE

Instructor(s): Patty Bowman Kingsley

Date(s): Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Time(s): 7:00pm - 9:30pm

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Creating from what you hold in your hand. 

Art Learning Goals:

• Creativity + Nurturing 

• Carving out images using shape tools 

• Creating from what you have in your home. 

• How to connect to symbol, metaphor and meaning. 

• Creating with spatulas, cake decorating tools, colour in any form, old clothing, recyclable materials. 

• Colour – warm and cool balance 

• Using a palette knife or straight edge 

• Nurturing yourself in your home 

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Suggested Materials List:

• Approximate size 12``x12`` board, Styrofoam square, old piece of shelving – already cut in a rectangle or square, circular or oval plate, form of any kind which can accept acrylic paint. If you are using china or a plate, you will need hot glue or sewing skills to cover it in fabric, to create on it. 

• House Paint, food colouring, pastels, sidewalk chalk – you will need some variation of colour 

• Old T shirts, linen shirts, table clothes, pants – any 100% real fabric. To test, burn it with a candle flame or match and see if it melts. If it melts it is not 100% natural. 

• Table protection 

• Old fashioned thumb tacks. 

• Tape – duct tape 

• Glue or art gel mediums/glazes 

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Suggested Tools List:

• Basting brush 

• Spatula’s 

• Spoons – wooden or metal 

• Credit cards, library cards, hotel key cards 

• Good pair of scissors 

• X-acto knife 

• Any available paint brushes 

• large bird feathers – turkey, or goose (Optional)

• Twigs, branches 

• Rags 

• Water Spray Bottle 

• Paint marker or fine squirt bottle if you have one.