Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Elementary- and middle-school students will . T • • • explore the properties of glue, watercolor paint, and other art media and tools. create a balanced work of art utilizing glue with paint media. select a harmonious color scheme. here’s something irresistible about squeezing out lines and shapes with a bottle of glue. It’s fun, yes. But, even better: it’s tactile. The glue dries slightly raised on the surface, lending itself to several exciting treatments. MATERIALS RAISED DESIGNS and RUBBINGS Ask • Tag board, white paper and black paper • Crayons or oil pastels • Transparent school glue or white glue • Chalk pastels • Fixative (optional) • Blackorcoloredglue • Watercolor paper, paints and brushes • Water containers and paper towels WORDS TO KNOW Continuous line Contrast 30 Fixative Rubbing the students to create line designs— continuous or not—in glue on white tag board. These might be angular or curvy nonobjective compositions, or they could be representational, such as the simplified portrait on the opposite page. Set them aside to dry overnight. To take things a step further the next day, place white or light-colored paper atop the dry design, and use the side of a peeled crayon to create a rubbing. Switch colors, move the paper a bit and rub again. Repeat with a third color. march 2010 > > Watercolor painted over a free-form blackglue design. Colored chalk-pastel pops on a black background. by Paula Guhin White-glue design on black paper. While the color ful r ubbings are interesting in themselves, the original glue-line designs—the ones on tag board—can be embellished with markers and more. Two for the price of one! Kids can apply marker color on top of the glue and r un lines along the edges. They can also fill x www.ar tsandactivities.com