1.   Paint a berry box; paint the background

2.  Make a collagraph print of a blueberry, strawberry,   black berry, or cherry.  

3.   Practice your prints and choose one for your box.

4. • Continue printing until you have a BALANCED

pile. You can also add some on the tabletop or

coming down from the top of the paper as if      

they are being dropped in.

5.   Using oil pastels, add shadows and leaves.  Smudge using q-tips. 

1. Let's practice flowers together

2.  Draw and paint flowers

3. Make a background for your work.

4. Fussy cut your flowers

5. Learn to paper wrap a bouquet.

6. Arrange your bouquet.

7. Sketch and paint your art 

1.  Choose your landscape inspiration.

2. Transfer or draw the image onto the fabric

3. Using thin strands of wool, begin stabbing in the designs.

4. Work in layers

5. Heat set the back

6. Glue or insert to your frame.

• Sketch different kinds of fish

• Choose one for your project - make it fill the space!

• Fill in your fish with a variety of scraps; make it random or choose tints and tones

• Paint around your fish; show movement and value

• Add printmaking details 

• Sketch some greenery

• Gather your wire and tape.

• Paint your pieces of tape using a variety of brushes

• Paint your pot and/or add decoupage elements

• Embellish your leaves

• Add stones and greenery

• Sketch your work onto watercolor paper and add color

• Mark off your pilings

• Sketch in your horizon line

• sketch in the boardwalk

• Paint pilings, then the birds, the water, and the sky.

• Make a green background with varying tints and shades

• Tape off areas; small tape in the back, large in the front

• Paint your pond using tints and tones

•  Remove the tape

• Add in lilies of assorted colors.  Embellish with pastels

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