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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 - 9:00pm
Creating from what you hold in your hand.
Art Learning Goals:
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Creativity + Nurturing
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Carving out images using shape tools
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Creating from what you have in your home.
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How to connect to symbol, metaphor and meaning.
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Creating with spatulas, cake decorating tools, colour in any form, old clothing, recyclable materials.
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Colour – warm and cool balance
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Using a palette knife or straight edge
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Nurturing yourself in your home
Suggested Materials List:
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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.
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House Paint, food colouring, pastels, sidewalk chalk – you will need some variation of colour
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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.
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Table protection
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Old fashioned thumb tacks.
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Tape – duct tape
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Glue or art gel mediums/glazes
Suggested Tools List:
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Basting brush
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Spatula’s
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Spoons – wooden or metal
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Credit cards, library cards, hotel key cards
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Good pair of scissors
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X-acto knife
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Any available paint brushes
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large bird feathers – turkey, or goose (Optional)
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Twigs, branches
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Rags
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Water Spray Bottle
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Paint marker or fine squirt bottle if you have one.