P.S. I'm nominating you for a Liebster Award because I can see that you are an amazing art teacher with a very interesting perspective! Keep up the great work. Check out my blog at www.spaldingart.blogspot.com to see what to do next :)
Thank you very much for your comments! My fourth graders were doing a unit on chemistry in their homeroom classrooms and I started researching art projects that taught about chemical processes. That's when I discovered the world of patina paints! It's pretty amazing. This is a great website to use for the lesson plan or as a guide: http://www.warhol.org/education/resourceslessons/Oxidations-and-Abstraction/ This website recommends using Modern Masters Patina Paint. This is not what I used, but I'm sure it would work too. I used a paint set that I am unable to locate on Amazon now, but I originally purchased the set on Amazon. The students basically folded their watercolor paper into four sections and painted one section at a time with metallic paint that came with the patina set. While the metallic paint was still wet, the students used eye droppers to apply the drips of patina. They repeated this process three more times using different metallic paint colors and different patina paints in each section of their paper. The effect was not instant (although for some it was). Most students didn't see the oxidation process until the next time they had art, a week later.
Can you share some information on this process? What materials did you use to create your oxidation? Is this watercolor?
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I am very intrigued by these! I'd love to see a description of the lesson :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm nominating you for a Liebster Award because I can see that you are an amazing art teacher with a very interesting perspective! Keep up the great work. Check out my blog at www.spaldingart.blogspot.com to see what to do next :)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comments! My fourth graders were doing a unit on chemistry in their homeroom classrooms and I started researching art projects that taught about chemical processes. That's when I discovered the world of patina paints! It's pretty amazing. This is a great website to use for the lesson plan or as a guide:
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This website recommends using Modern Masters Patina Paint. This is not what I used, but I'm sure it would work too. I used a paint set that I am unable to locate on Amazon now, but I originally purchased the set on Amazon.
The students basically folded their watercolor paper into four sections and painted one section at a time with metallic paint that came with the patina set. While the metallic paint was still wet, the students used eye droppers to apply the drips of patina. They repeated this process three more times using different metallic paint colors and different patina paints in each section of their paper. The effect was not instant (although for some it was). Most students didn't see the oxidation process until the next time they had art, a week later.