Steps:

Mutual Art: Hey, Moon

-Lunar Art Through the Ages

Painting Without a Brush

-My Modern Met: 7 Innovative Ways to Paint without a Paintbrush

-Artsy: 6 Painting Techniques that Don't Involve a Brush

Steps: Enjoy this! Explore Your Creativity! Relax! Have fun!

1. Read and look at all online source materials for inspiration.

2. Draw your moon. With a pencil, lightly draw a big circle for your moon shape. You want this to take up most of your paper. You have the option to cut out your moon, or let it be.

3. Gather your mixed media materials (objects that your parents are okay with probably not being able to be used for anything other than this painting). Check out the “Lesson Inspiration” link. Think outside the box. How can you paint this moon without a paintbrush? What objects can you use to make marks on the moon? Mixed media means mixing different media (tools) together to make your artwork. You want to use things to make unique marks with the paint. Like, using a cotton ball to print dots of paint, or crinkled up tissue paper to print funky shapes, or dip the end of a straw into your paint and splatter it onto your moon.

4. Put your paint on your plastic/paper plate. Use any colors that you want. Only put a very small amount of paint down at a time (dime or quarter size). You will use your mixed media materials to “print” paint marks onto your moon.

5. Make your moon! Carefully print each mark one at a time. “Print” meaning you will dip the tip of each object into a dab of paint and press it onto your moon. Print as many marks as you can. Don’t mix marks. If you want to re-use an object for another color, clean off the paint with a paper towel.

Make It Your Own- The Moon

YouTube:

-Van Gogh Starry Night for Kids

-5 Year Old Painting Van Gogh

-Experimental Van Gogh Painting

Google Image Search:

-Moon Paintings