School Paints: Free Painting Activities for teachers in the classroom

  FAS Painting Dye Colour Art Lesson - Sea Artwork by Artist Jo Nugroho Learn how to paint with FAS Painting Dye. This is a water-soluble dye designed for use in the classroom FAS Fastex Fabric Paint https://www.faspaints.com/painting-dye.html

FAS Painting Dye: Water Colour Painting Technique with school dye Here is a simple project for using FAS Painting Dye: Just like using school art watercolours. 1. Paint a sheet of paper with one solid colour (or try a blend of two colours). 2. Allow to dry. 3. Drip water with an eye dropper to create your design. 4. Use a paper towel to clean up. Tips: You can also paint designs by dipping a brush in cleans water. Lots of quick and easy colourful fun. FAS Painting Dye can be used to paint with and be applied like water colour paint. Just add water to make up super bright colours as you need them in only in seconds. Colours are super bright and very economical. There are countless ways to use this dye and this video is just one of them. FAS Paints www.FASpaints.com Painting Dye: https://www.faspaints.com/painting-dye.html

Simple paint by numbers for kids. Simple paint by numbers for classroom This is a fun way to do something completely different with paint in the classroom. Be open to using new colour combinations in this fun exercise.   Sometimes it is fun to team up with another person, one person does the outline and the other does the painting. Make a Colour Key Make A Colour Key: Paint your colour key on a separate piece of paper numbering each colour as you go.  Be open to the colour combinations.  Anything goes.  Draw your outlines to paint by numbers Draw Your Outline: Use a permanent black marker to draw an outline freehand with overlapping loops and lines. Try to keep your outline design simple with some large spaces and smaller spaces. It is easy to overcomplicate this by making too many areas to fill in later with paint. Lightly with a pencil, number each enclosed section on your outline using the numbers you have on your colour key.   Some sections can be left

Paint A Tote Canvas Bag Set   How to paint simple design with FAStex Textile Ink. Single-use plastic bags are now banned in New Zealand and Australian supermarkets. A great creative classroom art painting idea is to paint your own personalised designs onto tote canvas bags. Express yourself.    How to Fabric Paint a Tote Bag: FAS have made this easy with the Paint a Bag Set: This is a set of 10 x Large Heavy-Duty Cotton Bags that are ideal for painting.  Similar thickness to a paint of jeans. More info >> Here a video on how to paint simple idea onto a tote bag and a few ideas from what children have been creating. 

James Edwards: Auckland artist  James Edwards   paints amazing artworks with a FAS  Super Tempera School . Click here for more images and interview with James. James Edwards James Edwards Paints with Super Tempera: www.FASpaints.com   

Hot Or Cold? You Decide! by Ron Gribble Follow us on Pinterest , Facebook , Twitter , Goggle Plus and Flipboard .   Hot Or Cold? You Decide! Do not try to make a colour that is neither hot nor cold. Neither hot nor cold is to be grey, and that is one step away from mud. This is a secret that took me ages to finally think about long enough to realise that I was missing out on simplifying my colour mixing. If you decide early, what do you want? Now you must make sure that you are choosing pigments that allow you to achieve this end. I am not saying that you should not have cool colours in a hot colour mix, or the other way round, but I am saying that you should favour one or the other. There are many wonderful opportunities that you will miss out on if you do not understand the importance of using hot and cold colours in contrast to each other. Any colour will probably have elements of cool and warm in them, but when they are in shade, they will have more of the cool blues, and

School Mirror Blot Painting: See how much fun and just how easy it is to do. Folding Paper Art Painting There is a lot you can do with colourful paints that you simply just cannot do with crayons, markers and pencils.  Learn how to paint and create a "Mirror Blot Butterfly Painting" with FAS Super Tempera school children’s paint.  This butterfly art project helps kids express their creativity and learn about symmetry.  Simple and easy to do school painting idea for the classroom.   See how easy it is to paint butterfly’s and other creatures.  There is not a right or wrong way to paint these it’s about having creative fun with paint. Join us and subscribe to this “Ideas worth Painting” YouTube channel as we explore the creative colourful world of school painting. Share and Enjoy... www.FASpaints.com  

This Lesson.  Painting Flowers and plants Part 2 of 4 Painting Flowers and plants.  Teaching artistic painting in schools has not changed all that much in the last 30 years.  Although the fashion and haircuts certainly have. Here is a documentary filmed by Auckland Art College in the 1980’s with local brand of paints FAS - Fine Art Supplies Ltd .  Although the filming and fashions are looking a little aged the concept and teaching skills have not.  Using FAS Super Tempera and FAS Student Acrylic Paint s.  An historical video showing art in the form of painting in New Zealand Schools in the 1980s. Even after all these years there is a lot we can learn from the teaching of painting in the classroom from these 4 documentaries.   Shows for teachers working with children from 4 years to 12 years.  How to teach painting through fostering technique and creativity and reflects the objectives of the new Art Curriculum.  Techniques the have stood the test of ti

Black Paper Painting with School Paints: Try painting on black paper instead of a stark white blank page.   It adds a dramatic mood your painting even before you begin painting any colours on the page.  The black undertone seems to enhance the i ntensity of the  colours. See the examples below. Kiwi on black paper You can do the same if you are painting on a canvas by painting the background black. These days there are plenty of brands that have a Black Gesso (primer, sealer and undercoat) available in black Painting on Black Paper brings out the colours To help use a paint that has strong bright bold and true colours like FAS Super Tempera .  It always helps to use fine art supplies right from the start. Share and enjoy, Tony  www.FASpaints.com 

Children’s liquid Watercolour School Paints – Is it a dye or a paint? If you look around websites at school paints these days you see Tempera, Poster Paint, Gouache and now in the last 7 years or more there are these watercolours. Brands like Discount School Supplies “Liquid Watercolor” and  Sargent Art “Watercolor Magic” are popping up. What are they?  Are they new? Is it a Watercolour Paint or a School Dye? A watercolour or a dye? Sargent Art “Watercolor Magic” Dyes: Using waterbased dye in the classroom as an educational painting experience  has been around for over 40 years in a lot of countries like Australia, England, New Zealand & Singapore.  But it would seem that it is a relatively new thing in USA. This may be why it is considered it as a magic watercolour. Is it a Paint or a Dye? Both these brands of watercolour paints are technically dyes and not paints. Liquid Watercolor and Watercolor Magic are vegetable based dyes but t