[Aquanet] Fw: cards and paper

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There are too many variables to know about the "Make a Christmas Card" day.  The easiest one I know for someone who is not artistic is a 5x7 card blank, and to a child's hand on it (can be a tracing of a grandchild's hand) -- add a SC hat with face and you have Santa Claus vertically; horizontally, spread the fingers slightly and move the thumb as opposably as possible.  Add 'antlers', eyes and nose to the thumb end, close the back, and you have a reindeer.  Of course, you paint them.

Adults have more problems in the card making parts because they have a problem with imaginations, but you can work with themes -- a simplified star (show them how to 'lift' one as well as draw one), a wash 'desert' with three  small silhouetted 'stick' wise men (you can show them how to blend colours with a sponge if no large brushes are issued). There is also the standard tree ornament (compass or bottom of a glass) which you just 'decorate' in paint.

In a class, I have always sold the paper at cost (I sold small pieces cut from roll ends or the 'waste' off not-quite full sheet paintings as well as just cutting some up), but agree that there's always someone who shows up with a pad of 90-lb. garbage.  You use the paper (NOT the person) as an example of how watercolour comes to get you -- how it rumples, how worthless it is for use on two sides, how it ruins what might have been a good effort, etc.  I have always said that good paper is like good perfume -- yeah, you pay for the name but you get quality with the right name.

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  Phyllis Mcdonough wrote: 

    I have been talked into having a “Make a Christmas Card day” at our Guild and am at a loss as to how to proceed.  Anyone with experience doing this or something similar?

    I would be really grateful to hear from you.  I have sent to the library for a few books but they look childish, anyone out there with advice for me?   Also..how on earth do you teachers persuade your students to stop using pads of “less expensive” water color pads and buy some decent paper? It is difficult to see how they will ever improve  unless they move on but how to persuade them?  Phyllis


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