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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.
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.
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.
Check it out! Slide show of coffee paintings for V.I.P.s and 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
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