Kim Weissenborn / Painter

Make wax resist dragon flies - My home school art class consists of children ages 8 to 12. These babes come to the Museum to create art. I am there to guide them and provide materials to facilitate their output of creativity. This week I showed them how to draw butterflies and dragonflies by beginning with a large letter x and building from there. After they were drawn, we outlined them in crayon. Next we put the first color over the paper (yellow or pink). We then colored

Make Mexican Amate paintings - This was the last day of art class for the teenagers/seniors combined class. I wanted to end the class with a POW. I have been wanting to do Mexican “Amate” Paintings and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. “Amate” is the name of a paper that the natives of Mexico made to paint on. They would create this paper from the bark of the fig tree. It was then burned as a sacrifice to the gods. Today the paper continues to be used for religious

Learn how to make a stamp -This week, Regina Stark my teaching partner, (I love this girl), taught the Intergenerational Class (teens and seniors) the art of Print Making . With Styrofoam veggie sheets we made our designs by drawing indention’s into the Styrofoam with pencil. We cut our designs out and then glued them onto another larger styrofoam sheet to raise the design up from the surface. We placed a variety of printing ink colors on a large sheet of plexiglass and e

Make beautiful hearts from liquid watercolor paint- Valentines Day is coming and I wanted to do something with hearts. This is a great easy project with high impact. You will need two watercolor papers per person. Using liquid pour watercolors, wet each paper and pour cool colors on one sheet and warm on the other sheet. Sprinkle salt on the freshly painted paper before it dries for an interesting effect. When completely dry, cut hearts out with special pattern scissors. Mou