![]() ![]() Part C: Create the sailboats while the waves and sky dry When dry you may need to flatten it under some books.Don’t worry about leaving some white–these can be cloudy areas.Move the paper around to let the colors flow into each other. Paint and drop in your sky colors in various places and allow these to mix freely. ![]() ![]() Don’t soak it-just give it a light sheen. With clean water and a large brush, wet your background paper.Mix up largish puddles of water color paints in whatever sky colors you’d like.Don’t cut these-tearing creates the white edges that look like foam on breaking waves.Don’t tear quickly, make zig zag dips and points like waves.When the tempera paint is completely dry, slowly tear across the painting to create jagged strips of ocean waves.When dry you may need to flatten it under some books. Have fun and paint in a slappy,dappy manner, letting your brush stokes show.Do mix colors together on the paper as you add new ones.Don’t try to fill in every little space.With a large, flat brush paint these colors across the paper from one side to the other.Put largish puddles of blue, green, and purple tempera paint on a paper plate or a plastic tray.Each section takes more time to explain than to do!! Each part only takes 15 to 20 minutes depending on individuals. I’ve divided the directions for this mixed-media activity into 4 parts to make it easier to understand, and because each part needs some drying time. White glue-glue sticks aren’t strong enough for this project.Colored paper or cardstock for the sailboats.Watercolor paints for the sky on the background paper.Tempera paint for the waves-blue, green, and purple.Sturdy white paper for the waves and for the background paper.AND as always pictures of Molly, the Artsy Corgi!.6 ways the activity aids children’s mental, physical, and social development.Variations to extend the activity or make it more challenging.In this art activity you’ll make a mixed media, 3-D project with waves and boats that look like you could sail away in to catch the cool summer breezes! Sailboats skimming over a lake or breezing through ocean waves are colorful parts of summer. ![]()
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