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Ship in the Moonlight

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

I’m shocked at how good this “Ship in the Moonlight” backdrop came out! It was pretty easy to paint. I’m going to show you the steps I went through to paint this scene. I painted it as one of the backdrops for my creative writing class: Time Travel: Writing Historical Fiction. It represents “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” where Paul Revere waited to see if he should put one lamp or two in the church tower, to indicate whether or not the British were coming by land or by sea. The famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was memorized by each of my three sons years ago, when they recited it while wearing a three-cornered hat.

How to Paint a Ship in the Moonlight:

Tape a large piece of butcher paper to a wall or large window. I used packing tape to make sure it wouldn’t fall off my glass sliding door.
Grab your dark blue tempera paint, and paint the entire paper except for a circle, which will be the moon. (Make the moon larger than you want it, because you will be blending the white into the blue in just a minute.)
Paint the moon white, and carefully blend in the blue in circles around the moon. This was surprisingly easy.
Let the background dry overnight.
Get a black permanent marker and draw a ship, using a picture from a book. The more details you put in for the rigging, the more impressive it will look.
Fill in the bottom part of the ship with black tempera paint. Then get a fanned paint brush, and swoosh black paint lightly for the water of the ocean. The water took me maybe 10 minutes to paint. I made a shadow for the ship, and I filled it in with more swooshes of the fanned brush.

Your “Ship in the Moonight” backdrop is now complete! You can use it to recite “Paul Revere’s Ride”, re-enact night scenes from history, or leave it hanging on your wall as a work of art.

Tags:art, history, Homeschooling, painting, Paul Revere
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Oil Pastels on Black Paper

Monday, January 6th, 2014

A simple yet elegant art project to do with kids is to color with oil pastels on black paper. The bold colors really pop against the black. You can do an outer space scene, a night time scene, or a cave. You could draw confetti or fireworks against a dark sky. Another design would be to start in the middle of the page with a star or circle, and draw designs outward from it, making everything symmetrical in a radial pattern.

Oil pastels are brighter than regular crayons, and you can get them in the art supply section of most stores. The lighter colors show up better than the darker ones, if you are using a piece of black card stock paper or construction paper for the background.

Here are some other ideas for night time scenes:

a city with all the windows of its buildings lit up
the Milky Way
the phases of the moon going across the sky
Big Ben in London
trees with snow silhouetted against the night sky
an observatory
a spaceship moving through outer space
an owl swooping down to catch a mouse
bats hanging upside-down on a tree branch

Make sure you have plenty of black paper before you begin! You can also spread out a huge black paper on the wall, and kids can use oil pastels to draw on the black wall!

Tags:art, Homeschooling, oil pastels, paper craft
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Decorate Your Own Canvas Bag

Monday, December 9th, 2013

Here is a tutorial for how to decorate your own canvas bag, making it unique to keep or to give away as a gift. My 8-year-old daughter wanted to learn to sew, so she was excited to start this activity.

You will need a plain canvas bag, which you can buy at any craft supply store. You will also need a needle and thread, fabric scissors, and some scraps of cloth. Design your own scene, using the scraps of cloth. If you don’t want to sew, you can use fabric glue and be finished in about 5 or 10 minutes. Otherwise you can pin the pieces in place, one by one, layer by layer like we did.

First my daughter wanted to sew a sky onto the whole scene as a backdrop. I ironed a rectangle of blue patterned cloth, folding down the 4 edges and ironing them. I pinned the blue cloth onto the canvas bag. My daughter sewed the cloth onto the bag.

She wanted to add a green meadow, so we added some green. After ironing the cloth and folding down the 3 straight sides, we pinned and sewed the green hill.

Next we wanted some trees for a forest. You could use some green felt, cutting out trees. (If you use felt for everything, you will never need to iron or hem, because felt doesn’t become unravelled. This makes it perfect for the finishing touches to decorate your own canvas bag.)

One short-cut is to get patches at a craft supply store. You can sew these on, iron them on, or just use fabric glue to attach them. We found a tree, some birds, and some flowers. My daughter arranged them on the canvas bag and glued them down with fabric glue.

When you decorate your own canvas bag, it will look something like this:

Tags:art, Christmas gift, Homeschooling, sewing, simple sewing projects
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Textured Art

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

You can create textured art by finding a diversity of cloths and making a picture to frame and hang on your wall. I saw this hanging on the wall of a dear friend, and I loved the idea!

If you want to create a village like this, start with the background cloth. Then add the houses and the street. You can go ahead and use fabric glue to put together the town. You might want to think through your color scheme so that the colors will blend harmoniously and not clash. Conversely, you might want to use only bold colors or pastel colors.

After getting the main shapes in place, you will want to add details. Make the doors and windows, and add even more embellishments until you have exquisite detail. If you add fuzzy moss to the rooftops, you can choose fabric that will create this illusion. Shiny fabrics can work well for metals, and velvet looks soft and mossy. You could also add lace if you are making a frilly picture.

Add any other details, like clouds in the sky, or stars and a moon. If you want shapes of animals and people to populate your village, go ahead and add them. Otherwise a beautiful town in the sunshine can be a charming piece of textured art, hanging on your living room wall.

You can simplify this activity for your children by giving them one color for their textured art. For example, one of my sons loves green, so I dumped lots of green bits of materials on the table. I gave him a piece of green construction paper as a backdrop, and he had scissors and glue to create a work of art in green. My other children chose blue, pink, and red. As you can see, my son who wants to be a microbiologist has designed a red textured art piece that shows amoebas eating bacteria!