Kim Weissenborn / Painter

​ How to Curl Paper - This week I visited the Data Program . Data is a rehabilitation home for teens struggling with addiction. I taught them and myself how to curl paper otherwise known as Paper Quilling. During the Renaissance, French and Italian nuns and monks used Paper Quilling to decorate book covers and religious items. Paper Quilling often imitated the original ironwork of the day. for more information on quilling visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilling I gave

One of my favorite classes is when I teach the students how to let the paintbrush paint the flower. A 12″ round brush full of paint and water pressed down to the ferrel makes a leaf or petal shape. You should see their faces when they look at their paintings. I will have to photograph their expressions next time so you can see what I see. It is magical. Student Work

Make a portrait based on cubist artist Picasso -Last week we toured the new Cuban Art & Identity Exhibit at the Vero Beach Museum . The Cuban artists in the early 1900’s were inspired by Picasso’s Cubist Period and many works were painted with geometric shapes and bright colors. I decided to have the students paint faces in the same style. They were to depict the face from more than one angle (side view/front view) and put the features where ever they wanted. We used perman

Make Paper Mache Masks from Milk bottles. Only two weeks before Halloween and the teens from DATA (Drug Rehabilitation Treatment Assoc.) needed to have masks for an upcoming Halloween Party. The usual balloon structure wasn’t going to cut it in this limited time frame. I went on line and found that gallon sized milk jugs make for great paper mache masks. I had to go around the neighborhood to collect 18 jugs. No easy task rinsing them all out so they didn’t smell like sou