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“This is your last project before summer.
Finish strong!”
— Name, Title
“You'll need dark instant coffee, paint brushes, and painting paper that can hold watercolor for this project. Black watercolor is helpful but not mandatory.”
Step # 1: Thinking about coffee painting
Click on the coffee painting pallet for your grade
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Step # 2"Select a subject." Click on the coffee cup for your grade.
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Step # 3"Sketch your subject" You can...
A. Choose your own and sketch it out lightly on painting paper (Remember it must have a foreground, middle ground, and background.)
B. Sketch along with me to do the landscape by clicking on this tutorial link for your grade.
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Step # 4: "Creating a coffee value scale" Find out what foreground, middle ground, and background are then click on the value scale tutorial for your grade.
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Step # 5: Watch this video; try it out on your value scale paper, off to the side, to see if you'd like to try to use salt for texture on your final painting.
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Step #6: Begin to paint: Follow the steps of this tutorial to put in your coffee values:
Step #7: "Blending out edges" : Follow the steps of this video to emphasize and blend out edges.
Step #8: "Final Coffee Painting Instructions" Click on your grade level image to complete your painting
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Step #9: Photograph and attach your work to google classroom in the "Coffee Painting" assignment.
Please remember the following:
* Your painting must have at least one place that is dark brown that almost looks black.
* You should have a foreground, middle ground, and background.
* Your photograph should be upright and nicely cropped when you attach it. Make sure it's in focus.
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Step#10:
* Check your edpuzzles to make sure you have completed them all.
* Check for resets.
* When you are finished screenshot your empty "Due assignments" in your edpuzzle class
* Finally, attach the screenshot to your "All Edpuzzle Completion" assignment.
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Artsonia- I'll be sending an artsonia email to anyone who has not had art before this semester. Please grant permission via email so that I can put photos of your art in your online portfolio. Include your parents in this process.
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Check it out! Slide show of coffee paintings for V.I.P.s and 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
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