Drawn to Art

Here’s what I did today over at the school. I got to come in and paint on the wall. My son took some pictures of the mural as I was painting it. I used sandpaper first and lightly sanded the wall to remove the gloss from the previous paint I used spray paint next. When [...]

Tags: acrylic, lettering, mixed media, mural, spray paint

I wanted to include some more pics in the aquarium project process. After I applied water to the canvas boards, I then applied the acrylic paint to the wet surface. The ratio is roughly 3 parts blue, 1 part red, and 1 part yellow. Leaving a swirly pattern with the blue seems to really please [...]

Tags: acrylic, advice, plan b, preparation, primary color, ratio, steps

Here are some pics of some of our completed fish tanks! It is soooo exciting! First, see how some of our canvases turned out. It’s always wonderful to see how different each student’s canvas is different even though the same amount of paint and water is used. First grade shown here.

Tags: acrylic, cut, drawings, finished, out, pictures

Now that we are done drawing our main set of things to go into our aquarium, we will then work on our background. The background for our fishtank could easily be done with a piece of light blue construction paper, but if we really want this to be a proper “mixed media” project then we [...]

Tags: acrylic, mixed media, paint, primary colors, steps, wet canvas