Creative Ideas
PAINT AND STRAW BLOWING PICTURES - TREE PAINTINGS
Instructions for blowing "trees" with the drinking-straw. The same process
can be used to create other abstract paintings.
- Diluted poster paint or tempera works great and is easier to clean
up than traditional India ink.
- Put just a few drops of paint in a cup, and dilute with water to the
consistency of whole milk.
- Special paper isn't required, but tape down whatever paper is used.
- You don't actually have to use a drinking straw. Tubes from cheap
ball-point pens also work well because they're shorter and heavier.
- Put paint on a brush and make a line about two inches long from the
base of the tree upward. When the paint drops are blown, they'll move
along this pre-wetted line and continue from it. The line helps start
and direct the flow.
- Put more paint on the brush, and deliver it as a big droplet at the base
of the trunk.
- It's important not to blow too hard! Just blow slowly and "push" the
paint along. The straw should be held at a low angle, back an inch or
two from the flowing paint.
- If you like, add more paint at the base and repeat.
- Other decorations, along with poems can be added as desired.
- Individual paintings can be submitted separately as individual storey
squares or affixed to a piece of fabric with glue, staples etc. or
attached to a piece of Bristol board or large piece of paper and submitted
as a class storey quilt.
USING MARBLES OR BALLS AS A PAINTBRUSH
- Put paint in bowls, one color per bowl.
- Put marbles in the paint bowls and roll them around to cover them with paint.
- Put a little bit of water in a spare bowl and reserve it for "used" marbles.
(As long as you keep paint from drying on the marbles, clean-up is easy.)
- Put a sheet of blank paper into a cafeteria tray, cookie sheet or box lid.
Then, use spoons to lift marbles out of the bowls and gently drop them onto
the paper. This is usually done one color and two-or-three marbles at a time.
It's okay if a few droplets of paint fall from the spoon too.
- Make the marbles roll around by tilting the tray.
- Students can choose where to drop marbles onto the paper. By dropping fewer
marbles at a time, they can affect more control over the marble's paths.
Some students may like to experiment with dripping paint onto the paper
(from the spoon) without marbles.
- Have students examine and then title their picture. One suggestion might be
to have student's identify a feeling's name on the back of their paper, like:
"Relaxed", "Frightened", "Happy", "Angry", "Sleepy", etc.
To create interesting pictures use different coloured or textured papers, use balls
of different sizes, weights and textures, and/or add metallic flakes, glitter or
sand to the paint, or sprinkle a small amount onto the paintings.
Individual paintings can be submitted separately as individual storey squares or
affixed to a piece of fabric with glue, staples etc. or attached to a piece of
Bristol board or large piece of paper and submitted as a class storey quilt.
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