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Blowing Paint Technique 

"Children Blowing Colours"

Age: 9- 12
Themes: Silhouettes, Acrylic, Colours, Blowing paint 
Technique: Blowing Paint
Duration: 1 hour

Picture
Prototype by Sinthia Cousineau

Learning Objectives

1) To learn how to dilute thin out  acrylic paints to create a more water-colour style painting.
2) Explore and reproduce a silhouette of a person or animal.
3) Become more familiar with the paint blowing technique.
4) Attempt to create an authentic image using the paint blowing technique.
5) Discover contemporary artists who use that technique.
6) Develop oral motor skills, awareness and coordination. 
7) Adapt to the unpredictability of paint. 

Picture
Prototype by Sinthia Cousineau

Vocabulary

Blow Painting Technique: Add water to paint and blow on it to create drip lines. Children could directly blow on the paint or use a straw. Hair driers can also produce interesting effects.

Silhouette: 
the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background.

Examples of Artists who use the Technique

Materials

  • Large or medium mixed media paper
  • Plastic Straws (unused)
  • Fast Drying black acrylic paint
  • Silhouette images of kids blowing bubbles to trace
  • Peacock silhouette images to trace
  • Carbon tracing paper
  • Tracing impression pens
  • Pencil
  • Acrylic paints of different colours 
  • 1 Water container per student
  • 1 Small and 1 medium paint brush per student.
  • ​Prototype Examples
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Lesson Sequence

​1) Introduction to Blowing Technique (5 minutes): 
  • ​Show prototype and examples of real artists who use the technique.
2) Students pick a Silhouette and trace it ( 5 minutes)
3) Students Paint the Silhouette with Black Acrylic Paint (5 -10 minutes)
4) Demonstrate the Paint Blow technique (5 minutes)
5) Students explore the technique and create their artwork (40 minutes)
6) Students look at everyone's artwork (5 minutes)


Note: If the main project is finished early, encourage students to create another artwork that uses the same technique (example: peacock or jellyfish tail).

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Demonstration Station prepared by Sinthia Cousineau

Students Exploring the Blow Paint  Technique

Art Neuf Community Center, 2023

Student Artworks

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Student Age 9
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Student Age 12
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Student Age 9
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Student Age 11
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Student Age 9
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Other Artworks by Students
Exploring the Blowing Paint Technique

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Age 11
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Age 12
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Age 9
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References and Sources
peacock_sillouette_templates_.docx
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bubble_blowing_silouettes.docx
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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Fictional Characters
    • Flowers
  • Ceramic Art
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Decals
    • Violins
    • Abstract & other
  • Paintings
    • Self-Portraits
    • Models
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
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            • Door Mural Project
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          • Videos
          • Lesson: Eco Art
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          • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
          • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
          • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
          • Lesson: Canadian Landscapes & Group of Seven
          • Tattoo Art & Meaningful Images
          • Lesson: Stenciling Street Art
          • Lesson: Plaster Figures (grade 7-9)
          • Photoshop Lesson
          • Lesson: Value Scales
          • Lesson Plan: Video Art
          • Lesson Plan: Sound Art
          • Lesson: Landscape
          • Lesson: GIF Project
          • Lesson: Mashup Videos
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Reptile Zentangle Drawing
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Art Education & Seniors >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Symmetrical Name Creatures
        • Tim Burton Portraits
        • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
        • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
        • Grid Drawing Technique
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Leaf Drawing Collage
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Oil Pastel Night Sky
        • Scratch Art Drawing
        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Types of Art >
          • Eco Art
          • Symmetrical Name Creatures
          • Kinetic Art
          • Street Art
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
      • Painting Activities with Kids >
        • Acrylic Pouring
        • Australian Dot Painting
        • Blow Paint Technique
        • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
        • Coffee Art
        • Pointillism Painting
        • Monochromatic Painting
        • Lesson: The Color Wheel
        • Painting: Birch Tree
        • Pumpkin Painting
        • Painting: Rock Painting
        • Squeegee Painting Technique
        • Origami Inspired Painting
        • Watercolor Activities >
          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
          • Watercolour Winter Tree Cards
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      • Group Art Therapy >
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