Link to PDST techniques year by year

1. Flat Wash
2. Graded
3. Variegated

• Link to Indian Wash Paintings for a stimulus

• Andrew Wyeth (American Artist) - Dry Brush Technique | Example 1 | Official Site

• Jackson Pollock inspired blow painting lesson

12 Spatter Paint Artists - Jackson Pollock, Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Milton Resnick, etc.

• Who else other than our friend, Jackson Pollock!

Add coloured paint to thickly mixed wallpaper paste. Apply paint generously to page randomly or in stripes, squares or any pattern of choice. Use one or more objects (e.g. toothbrush, comb, lollipop stick, toy car, bottle top, finger etc. to create a design, write a word or make a pattern. Paste paint can also be used for painting pictures. Avoid over mixing as the colours could become muddy. Experiment with adding sand, sawdust, wood shavings, salt, oatmeal etc. to create a textured effect.

• All About Jack B Yeats
• Two Textured Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh

Dissolve icing sugar with water (approx. 3 heaped teaspoons to 1/4 litre of water). Paint a wash of this mixture over the entire page. While still wet, paint picture or design. The colours blend and mix and the finished effect is soft and blurry. This is ideal for experimenting with colour mixing and for pictures where a hazy effect is desired e.g. flowers, landscape

• All of Claude Monet's Paintings
• All of Edgar Degas' Paintings
• All of Pierre Auguste Renoir's Paintings

• Google Art Exhibition of George Seurat's most famous painting and you can zoom right into the dots!

Tissue Paper Painting

Dampen pieces of tissue paper and dab soft blurry effect is created. Details can be added with a paintbrush if desired.

Damp Dribble Painting

Dampen paper. Place on tray. Drip blobs of paint on page. Tilt gently so the paint runs. Allow to dry. Outline the shape effects (stains) with a felt-tipped pen/marker

Glue Painting

Trail glue over paper to make a picture or pattern. Put dry powder paint in an old pepper pot and sprinkle over the glue. Repeat with different colours if required. When glue is dry spray the picture with hairspray. (Experiment with different coloured paper)

Wax Resist

Paper Batik

Randomly scatter torn pieces of newspaper on a sheet of paper. Use sponges to print colour around each. Remove the pieces of newspaper. Repeat the process with more newspaper and another colour.

Paper Tie/Dye

Dip folded pieces of greaseproof papers into jars of watercolour dyes.

Patchwork Quilt

Choose a colour. Add white. Add black. Each time you create a new tone, paint a strip of card with this. When the strips are dry cut then up into squares and arrange them as a quilt or a mosaic.

Extend / Complete a Picture

Cut a picture from a magazine. Stick it to the centre of a page. Use your paints or other colour materials to paint out from the image.