Bird Unit Study | Eggs

Описание: Any excuse to pull out our art supplies for a project is a good reason! I love adding art and color to our unit studies, and this is one project I'm sure you'll love to try. This project was inspired by the book An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston and Sylvia Long. This book is packed with gorgeous illustrations, and this two page spread entitled An Egg is Colorful was the inspiration for this art project. We used our Distress Inks in a rainbow of colors. I especially like Distress Inks for their versatility in uses and colors. As an ink pad, Distress Inks can be used in the traditional sense with stamps, you can also squish the ink pad onto a non-porous surface like contact paper, glass or an acrylic block and used them as watercolors, or you can use a smudger and add color to paper and leave as is or blend with water. I also love the range of colors. Distress Inks come in a wide assortment of colors that are natural and work perfectly for many of the projects we do in which we need browns, greens and blue that are true to nature.

Though I show you a variety of paint mediums in the video, and I think any of them would do, I chose to work with our Distress Inks. Unlike watercolors, these inks dry permanent. I decided to use Strathmore 140 lb. Watercolor paper for this project because it is a high quality paper and more importantly it was larger than the two-page spread in the book giving us enough room to watercolor the eggs and label each one.

You can find more pictures and the names of all the Distress Inks we used on the blog post that accompanies this video.

Check out the other projects we are doing for our Bird Unit Study:
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