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When life gives you lemons, paint a still life! In this advanced painting lesson, students will gain a deeper understanding of color theory by creating two still lifes of a lemon. The first focuses on the natural color of an object as perceived by the eye. The second focuses on invented color, which can be any color of the artists’ choosing.

"Color paste" is a mixture of baking soda and acrylic paint that can be shaped with the safe blade of a painting knife and other tools, to. Students sculpt the color paste into peaks and valleys, creating patterns and intriguing textures while experimenting with mixing colors and learning how they relate to one another on a color wheel.

Featured with updated content Brusho is powdered in crystals that explode into color when they come in contact with water. Use it in combination with wax resist to create lines and shapes that repel water and ccreate divided areas of textural color. No heat required!

Although photography and modern printing processes have replaced the need for cataloguing plant life with detailed drawn and painted illustrations, botanical illustration is still a beloved art. To make an accurate rendering of a plant, students can create an impression in plaster, then trace the shape and details with colored pencil, ink, or watercolor. Mixing and shading for color accuracy and identifying the plant are some of the skills that will be learned in this exercise.

A whole new perspective on the landscape! Create map-like art using readily-available satellite imagery.

Creating self portraits is a snap with this easy technique! Facial proportions and features are traced onto clear film, then layered over a background of a student’s own choosing — a location where she or he would most like to take a “selfie.”

Reimagine plastic bottles and cups as textural, painted containers perfect for plants and flowers. New, updated content!