Here are just a few of the many benefits of tempera paint: As for the forms tempera paint comes in, you can usually find it in liquid, stick, cake, or powder. Washes off most surfaces, including most clothing.Applicable on a variety of surfaces such as cardboard, papers, and windowsįor more information on tempera paint, be sure to check out the FLEX Collection, Experimenting With Tempera and the PRO Pack, Tempera Paint Basics.Consider these 10 fun and unique ways to engage students with tempera paint at any level! 1. Tempera’s cost-effectiveness allows for experimentation and mistakes. Jumping into color mixing can be challenging but fun! While exploring color theory and color mixing, students use a palette of tempera paint to investigate colors before moving on with acrylics, oils, or watercolors. When dry, tempera paint has a matte appearance and is an ideal surface for adding diverse materials such as crayon, oil pastel, ink, or collage. Start with a painted surface and provide students with materials to try out their marks on the dried background. They may find material combinations to explore further in future works. Here is a complimentary anchor chart from the FLEX Collection, Experimenting With Tempera. Use it in your classroom to show what different types of media look like on tempera paint. Students lay down a layer of thick tempera paint on a piece of drawing paper. Then, they choose another color and paint a new layer on top of the wet paint. While both layers are wet, students can use the back of the brush to scratch and reveal the color below. Think of this as a “DIY painted scratchboard.” If a student is unhappy with the marks they made, swipe paint over the scratched lines and try again. Check out this article for an elementary portrait lesson exploring this technique. With the evolution of art supplies, there are now window markers and crayons for precise lines and crisp handwriting. A large school window is an ideal spot for a large tempera paint design. Tape a pre-drawn design on the outside of the window. Add a small amount of liquid dish soap to enhance the paint’s washability. Use large brushes to bring color and energy to the windows. Students fill in the design with paint on the inside of the window to protect the image from the elements. Take down the pre-drawn design when the painting is finished. Instead of doing the window painting alone or with a whole class, consider this idea for an art club activity. To create low-budget monoprints, use plexiglass sheets or plastic sheet protectors. You can usually have the plexiglass sheets cut at the hardware store. Using tempera paint instead of ink will stretch your budget and can make unique transferred marks on paper. To use tempera paint in this way, students must work quickly or with more abstract imagery. Lay the paper face down on top of the tempera and rub the back of the page to transfer the image. The pandemic brought a lot of plastic barriers into our lives. Whether you are still using this personal protective equipment in your studio or not, try adorning these plastic barriers with tempera paint to create an interactive artmaking experience. If you have plastic dividers, have one student sit behind the plastic. Have their partner be the student-artist who applies tempera paint directly on their side of the barrier. Paint a hat, a mustache, or a patterned background. Once the painting is complete, take a photo of the student behind the painted designs. Clean the plastic barrier and reuse it by swapping roles or for another pair of classmates. Zoos and animal caretakers worldwide use enrichment painting to keep animals actively engaged and learning. It requires animals to make marks with paint to experience new sensations. A penguin may walk through a line of blue paint and leave colorful footprints across a canvas as they walk away. The sensation of stepping into the paint and the feel of the canvas can be exciting and new to the animal-artist. Zoos use non-toxic, highly washable tempera paint for their animal-artists. They never use red or pink because they do not want it to be confused as an injury.
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