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| Stella Skinner |
| Useful Resources & Tips for
your setting |
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| Visual art |
| Paint and mark-making tips |
| • Explore different types of
paint (non-toxic) such as acrylic, water colours and inks.
Remember you can mix things like washing up liquid, washing
powder, sand, glue and vegetable oil with most types of
paint to thicken it and make it more stimulating. |
| • Paint on flat and upright
surfaces as the paint responds in different ways. Try
painting on windows, clear Perspex, thick polythene sheets,
bubble wrap, material. |
| • Use paint inside and outside
to explore scale opportunities. |
| • Experiment with different
tools to apply paint, such as big and small brushes, twigs,
cotton wool buds, cloths, sponges, string, fingers and
feet. |
| • Good ideas for mark-making:
oil pastels, chalk pastels, felt pens, graphite pencils. |
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| Light and shadow tips |
| • Explore a variety of light
sources-torches, over-head projectors, slide projector,
lamps, sun. |
| • Test out different fabrics
and papers to make the screen for a light box.e.g. Cotton,
Lycra, tracing paper, silk. Try coloured materials too. |
| • Things to project-anything
that will cast an interesting shadow, Christmas tree decorations,
household objects. |
| • Explore on a big and small
scale using small light boxes and large pieces of sheeting.
Play games-guess who/what is making the shadow. |
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| Print tips |
| • Mono-printing: use water
based printing inks. Roll the ink on to a hard surface
and make marks into this with a variety of tools. |
| • Oil printing-print with vegetable
cooking oil on to paper, experiment with foam blocks,
feathers, string. Let the print dry a little then rub
powder paint into the oil. |
| • Potato prints-still wonderful
but try a variety of paints and surfaces to print on. |
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| Clay |
| • Use real clay, red or white
but not air-hardening clay which has added fibres and
is hard to manipulate. Buy bags from educational suppliers;
it’s cheap and will last a long time if looked after.
Store it in a bucket with a lid on to keep it damp. |
| • Use a piece of cardboard to
work on to stop the clay sticking to a tabletop. You can
use a variety of tools for example strong plastic cutlery
garlic press, and combs to explore the properties of the
clay. |
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| Materials/natural objects |
| • Weaving materials can include
strips of coloured bin liners, coloured plastic bags,
thick wool, string rope, ribbons. |
| • Natural objects such as shells,
stones and sticks to make patterns. |
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| Suppliers |
| • Remainder stock shops (Pound
Shops). |
| • DIY stores. |
| • Stationer’s shops. |
| • Army surplus stores for items
such as big foil sheets, tape, plastic sheets, tents,
parachute. |
| • Fabric shops and market stalls. |
| • Educational Supplies catalogues. |
| • Kitchen suppliers. |
| • Charity shops. |
| • Art and Craft stores. |
| • Free from families and local
companies in the community. |
| • Scrapstores. |
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