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Re: doing it better - question answered

From: Matt or Gina Booth (ginab)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 03:43:17 PST

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    What I meant was, instead of mixing up a "goop" of glue w/ink combo you just
    use

    ONLY QUALITY TEMPERA PAINT - I put it in the glue bottles !!! That's it, no
    glue, no ink, nothing else !
    When I do kids that will be entering contests for sure with the piece I put
    some of my black acrylic in the bottle,
    it's smoother and clots less and much more permanent. But the main idea is
    the great, large, simple effect of
    the crazy contour glue lines, such character @!

    I just finished this lesson with a hundred or more kids. They look great.
    The bottles still clot some so shaking bottle
    before using (with finger over lid is a must) and I keep some plastic
    needles about to unclot them. Also, sometimes I take off all the orange lids
    (Big hint - Elmers glue bottles only) to soak them and put a needle through
    them.

    One thing that happened to one childs picture this year though, and it was a
    pretty good one. ALL of the paint flaked
    off ! I don't know why, perhaps that particular mix of tempera was thin or
    mostly the 'gel'. Not sure. Or else perhaps, after 3 years of doing this
    tempera only method the residual glue (that used to be in the bottles is
    running out), so perhaps I still have a bit of glue left in each bottle. But
    I'm not so sure that is it. Anyway, this totally flaked picture looks like a
    lovely ink wash on all the outlines. But this will be difficult for a young
    one to paint as the beauty of the black "glue" idea is that they can feel
    the borders of the colored area. (like little 'lakes' that hold the pocket
    of pastel or watercolor in)

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <Janjarreau>
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
    Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 5:36 PM
    Subject: Re: doing it better (Gina)

    > In a message dated 2/21/00 9:57:05 AM Central Standard Time,
    > ginab writes:
    >
    > <<
    > QUALITY BLACK TEMPERA put in the glue bottles.(I use the Premium Black
    from
    > Dick Blick, order 2 gallons of it a year just for this purpose.) It
    doesn't
    > harden or anything. >>
    > Gina,
    > How much paint do you put with how much glue?
    > Janice
    >
    > --- 

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