Category: Studio Hours
Try This: Bubblewrap Monoprint
Monoprints are simple. You add color to a flat surface, and then apply that surface to the paper. Unlike other prints, you can only print the ‘plate’ once or twice. Bubblewrap as the plate adds another layer of texture to your print.
Try This: Abstract Faces
Simple materials like paper and pom poms turn into faces with a little ingenuity.
Try This: Geometric Collages
Collage is an easy way to play with geometric. What You Need paper, scissors, glue Try this? Begin by thinking out your pattern. With that plan in mind, cut your shapes. Place the pattern on your base paper. Glue pieces into place.
Try This: Paper bag puppet
Bags and large envelopes make great puppets. What You Need bags, envelopes, colored paper, pompoms, buttons, scissors, glue Try This?
Try This:DIY Stamps
What You Need corks, buttons, sequins, tiles, hot glue, ink, and paper Try This?
Try This: Drawing Still Life
Drawing can be as easy and complicated as you choose it to be. Still Life is a good way to hone your skills. Set up something you can draw many times in different styles. Keep working until you’re happy with the results.
Try This: Encaustic
All painting is pigment plus a binder. Many paints, like watercolor and acrylic, are liquid at room temperature. Encaustic is a pigment mixed with wax. The paint needs to be heated to be viscous enough to apply to a paint surface. The media is challenging, requiring a fast hand. The rich surface, however, makes this media satisfying.
Try This: Silverpoint
Silverpoint is an age-old form of drawing, using a metal point on a gessoed surface. The contrast in the fine details of the drawings increases over time as the image oxides in the air.
Try This: Using Drawing Fluid
This type of printing is effective to make multiple screenprints. You’d need the basic silkscreen materials (screen, squeegee, ink) plus drawing fluid and screen filler. This style of printmaking is wonderful for line drawings. What You Need a silkscreen, drawing fluid, ink, a brush, paper, and a squeegee Try This?
