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Art Journal to Express Needs
Everyone has needs; there is no doubt about that. Expressing them is a difficult thing to do at times. Explore your needs in your art journal.
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Braving the Art of Watercolor Painting
Alwyn Crashaw's accessible introduction to the art of watercolor painting puts a difficult medium within a beginner's reach.
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How to Choose Watercolor Paints
Watercolor is a tricky medium. However, a major key in painting a successful watercolor is knowing how to select the right transparent and opaque pigments.
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How to Mix Watercolor Paints
When painting a watercolor it's better to have only a few good colors. While some combinations render intense colors, others create a more subdued effect.
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How to Use Flowers and Leaves for Painting
When painting with botanicals, flowers and leaves are crushed, smashed, and rubbed to release their natural juices, making interesting patterns and washes.
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How to Use Watercolor Pencils
Watercolor pencils offer the ease of drawing with colored pencils but leave you with the final effect of a watercolor painting.
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Watercolor Paints
Make your own watercolor paints with this recipe.
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Water and Ice Art
Use these projects to cool off on a hot day or add at the end of a lesson on the properties of water and ice.
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Resist Techniques That Reveal Hidden Pictures
Draw a "hidden" picture using crayons, waxed paper, or white glue and then reveal the image with chalk pastels or watercolor paints.
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Art Journal to Make Career Goals
Career goals are important for those who are currently working in their careers, and for those who are on the cusp of doing so. What are your plans? Let's explore.
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Create Spooky Halloween Party Invitations
Children can add a hidden decoration to Halloween party invitations and cards that guests discover when they apply watercolor paints to the invite.
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Drawing and Painting on Plaster of Paris
Create a Plaster of Paris surface to paint on with watercolors or draw on with chalk pastels.
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Art Card Project About Postage
Incorporating pieces of used postage into art is both fun and easy. Create small pieces of mixed media art by following the instructions outlined here.
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Art Journal About Changing Seasons
For some, the changing of the seasons is not a big deal at all. For others, it's a time for celebration! However you feel, why not express it in your art journal?
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Art Journal About Health
Rather than letting medical issues cause artists block, break free using the medical issue as the theme of your art projects. That is the focus of this art journal promp
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Art Journal About Homework
What are you thoughts about homework? If you're not currently a student, this art journal prompt is about your memories of homework rather than current thoughts.
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Art Journal Color Experiments
Color experiments do not only have to happen when working on a canvas. Experiment in your art journal and then bring it to the canvas.
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Art Journal Using Autumn Foliage
Is autumn your favorite time of year? For many, this is true and it is a great opportunity to be artistic! Let's mix it up.
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How to Fix Mistakes in Your Art
If a painting or drawing just doesn't look right then the artist needs to find the problem and fix it.
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How to Make Homemade Watercolor Paper
With scrap paper, a blender and a window screen, an artist can create their own homemade, recycled watercolor paper.
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Susan Branch: Warms the Heart & the Home
Article content pulled 03/07/01 pending artist's approval.
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Oil and Water Don’t Mix!
Oil and water don't mix, and you can use that chemical oddity to make some cool mixtures and to write secret messages!
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Art Journal About Change
No one is comfortable with change, no matter how used to it they appear and how often it happens in their life. Deal with change using your art journal.
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Art Journal About Current Events
Keeping track of current events can be tedious. This art journal prompt is an attempt to make news a bit more interesting.
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Art Journal Holiday Memories
Preserving memories doesn't have to be reserved just for scrapbooks. Use your art journal to explore the past holiday season.
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Art Journal Idea About Ugliness
Like beauty, there are a number of ways people define the word ugly. How do you define what's ugly? Explore this in your art journal.
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How to Be a Green Artist
Artists can save the planet by recycling, reusing and reducing the amount of waste they produce.
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How to Paint with Leaves
The key to making fantastic botanical paintings and collages is going straight to the source by painting with leaves.
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Make a Mystery Painting
Have fun with this painting technique to make a mystery painting.
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Fancy Nancy Comprehension Lesson
How to use Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly to teach primary school students to recall main events from a story and increase reading comprehension by creating a comic strip.
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How Children's Illustrators Draw and Paint Fall
Children will look at how children's illustrators use different art media to illustrate fall-themed picture books, then use the same art materials to create pictures.
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Lesson Plan About Art Journals
Keeping writing, spelling, and other types of journals are popular in the classroom already. Why not incorporate art journals in the mix, as well?
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Scrap Wood Craft Project
Do you have scrap wood lying around from projects completed in the past? Do you know someone who has a pile to get rid of? Let's make some art!
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ART BASICS - PAPER
A chance to find out a lot about paper and its various properties and qualities. I go in to just a few of the paper making companies that I have used for years, but there are some terrific sites that give loads and loads of information, and not just about paper, either.
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Art Classes: Back To The Basics
A look at some basic yet fun and educational art lessons, which can be enjoyed by homeschoolers and their teachers.
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Art Idea With Embellished Letters
Letter-writing is a beautiful thing, especially when coupled with mixed media art techniques. Spin your letters into creative pieces of art.
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Art Journal About Back To School
Back to school is fun for some, and dreaded by others. Explore these thoughts in a creative way using your art journal.
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Art Journal About Easter
Create pages in your art journal focusing on the Easter holiday, what it means to you, and reflections of years past.
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Art Journal About Homeschooling
Homeschooling is part of many households, elementary and high school students alike. Encourage them to art journal as part of their educational routines.
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Art Journal About Memories
Preserve some or your favorite memories on the pages of your art journal using mixed media art techniques.
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Art Journal About Your Diary
There seems to be an unwritten rule about the privacy involved with keeping a diary that stems back to early childhood memories. Art journal it up!
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Art Journal Prompt About Harvesting
There are so many harvest festivals occurring in communities around us just about every weekend. Why not turn them into artistic opportunities?
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Art Journal Prompt About Wish Lists
Everyone has a wish list, be it on paper or in their mind. Let's explore what these wish lists are through art.
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Art Journal to Achieve Dreams
Dreams and aspirations help everyone formulate attainable goals. Get in touch with your dreams and goals through creating mixed media art.
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Art Journal to Make Wishes
Whenever wishing comes to mind, most think about birthday cakes or shooting stars. Do you have a list of wishes you would like to come true? Art them up!
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Art Journal to Plan Your Day
Does your schedule overwhelm you? Would you rather tear up your calendar than follow what is written out each day? Let's work on an art journal prompt!
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Art Journal to Sort Worries
Turn your art journal into a tool through use of this art journal prompt. Not only will you be able to create some art, but you will also sort through issues.
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Art Journaling to Face Fears
Everyone is afraid of something; there is no getting away from that. This art journal prompt focuses on facing these fears.
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Bunny Coloring Page
Here is a cute coloring page for a fun Easter or spring kid's craft.
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Children's Easter Art Journal Projects
Encourage your children to work on Easter art project in their art journals or drawing books.
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