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Egg Painting Exercise

http://www.RightBrainKidsArt.comThis exercise I did at home with Selina and Enzo during last Easter day.
Material : Egg Shell (empty after your cooking),chockstick, paper wrapper tape, poster color or acrylic color. The end result of the egg look is not critcal, the important thing is your kids practise motorskill and their sensorial training...

How to Mix Colors

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Interested in learning how to mix luscious, vibrant colors? Have you ever mixed red and blue paint only to find you have "mud" instead of purple? Want to know how to create luminous shades of red and yellow? Now it's time to learn how!

Steps

1. Learn by doing. Get out your paints and cut a number of 8" x 10" pieces of watercolor paper or primed canvas on which to try out all the following color mixing techniques. You will find these sheets a great reference tool.
   
2. Understand the basic color wheel. If you don’t have one, get one. It’s loaded with good information and visually demonstrates the following:
   
   • Primary colors are yellow, red, blue. You have to start with these colors as they can’t be mixed from anything else. Hence the term primary.
     
   • Secondary colors are orange, purple, green. Yellow + red = orange. Red + blue = purple. Blue + yellow = green.
     
   • Tertiary A tertiary color is one that involves all three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. It is a muted color. Tertiary means three. Orange plus blue is a tertiary color because orange is red and yellow. Add blue and you have three the primary colors in the mixture. Blue-green is not a tertiary color because it only has blue and yellow. It is a secondary color. A lot of incorrect information about tertiary colors and what they are is out there confusing people. If you want to mix brown or gray or if you want to tone down a bright color with its compliment, that will involve all three primary colors. You will be mixing a tertiary color.
     
   
   
3. Be aware that colors can be visually warm or cool.
   
   • Warm colors include yellow, orange, and red;
     
   • Cool colors include purple, blue, green.
     
   
   
4. Create a color sheet of all your pigments, grouping like colors. Yellow can, be cool, just as a green can be warm, depending on the pigments used to make that particular color. Your color sheet will help you to become familiar with this concept. Paint a swatch of all your yellows, reds, blues, etc. It will become obvious whether a pigment is warm or cool by comparing it to the other swatches.
   
5. Learn about complementary colors. This is key for two reasons:
   
   • Complementary colors, when painted next to each other, enhance one another and almost glow. Why do you think a red rose is so stunning? It's those wonderful green leaves making the red dance. Did you ever wonder why so many spring flowers are purple and yellow? Mother Nature knows what she's doing.
     
   • Most important - complementary colors, when mixed together, create a neutralized or grayed-down version of the original color. Alter the proportions to get blue gray, green gray, or purple gray; red brown, yellow brown, or greenish brown.
     
   
   
6. Dull down colors that are too bright. When you have a blue that is too bright, you can dull it by adding a bit of orange. Give it a try. Take a dollop of blue and add a small amount of orange. Mix well and watch how the blue changes from bright to dull. Uh oh, are you getting a greenish brown? That's because you added too much orange, or the orange may have too much yellow in it. Yellow and blue make green, remember?
   
7. Keep trying different color mixes. We know that it takes red and blue to make purple, and that yellow is the complement. Which red and blue do you choose to mix a bright purple? (HINT: NOT red with yellow in it.) Red and yellow make orange, the complement to blue, which will make a grayish purple and not a bright one. Got the idea? Give it a try.
   

Tips

• Complementary colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel. That's all well and good but what if you don't HAVE a color wheel in front of you? Here is a quick way to figure it out:
  
  • If you are looking for the complement to red, the two primary colors left are yellow and blue; mixed together they make green, which is the complement to red. The complement to yellow? Blue and red are the primaries left that, when mixed, make purple - the complement to yellow. Cool, eh?
    
  • What if you want to know the complimentary color to purple? Well - red and blue mix to make purple, the primary color left is yellow, which is the compliment to purple. TA-DA!
    
  
  

Warnings

• Color Mixing Takes Time & The Highly Technical Marble Drop Theory
  
• With all this information, consider the "marble drop" theory. Our brains can only comprehend so much information at any given time. When learning new techniques/methods, it is difficult to hold onto all these various tidbits. I picture them as marbles all lined up waiting to be absorbed. At some point you will think 'AHA! I get it!' and the marble will drop for that particular tidbit of information - you will no longer have to struggle with it. This makes room in your brain for the next pearl of wisdom.
  
• Your art journey is a spiral. As you get each new principle, when you come back around to study, oh, say color again, you have the capacity for a higher-level of understanding.
  

Things You'll Need

• Disposable paper palette (no messy clean up—I like it!)
  
• Mixing knife or palette knife (any size will do)
  
• Watercolor paper or primed canvas (there are pads available of both at your local art supply store; make sure you get actual primed canvas—not that paper stuff which I think is really icky)
  
• Water containers for cleaning brushes
  
• Synthetic brush of your choice (#8 round or #6 flat is good)
  
• Spray bottle to keep paint moist
  
• Paper towel for blotting and cleaning brush
  
• Color Wheel
  
• Paint colors as listed in following pages
  
• (Also visit Golden’s web site listed below for color samples)and also remember to wear something that can get dirty!!!
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Mix Paint Colors to Make Brown
  
• How to Paint With Watercolors as a Novice
  
• How to Create an Abstract Painting
  
• How to Oil Paint
  
• How to Spruce up Your Home
  
• How to Draw Gnomes and Elves
  
• How to Clean an Oil Painting
  
• How to Mix Colors to Get Turquoise
  

Sources and Citations

• goldenpaints.com
  
• Abstract Art
  

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Color Reflexion practise 1 - explain how to do and teach your toddler

Color Reflexion practise 2

How to train patient and creativity

This is how I train Selina patient and creativity.
While doing art I'm actually building Selina's foundamental of creativity and problem solving ability, by using below listed method :
1. observation skill
2. patient
3. focus / concerntration
4. never give up, retry and retry persistantly
5. day dream

observation skill
1. "look carefully" method
-> when go outing have a walk at part I always ask Selina to discover the grass leaf shapes by say "look carefully all the grass shapes are not the same, though from far they look the same color almost"
-> when travel in car or bus, I always ask Selina to look for upcoming vehicle, by say "look carefully the bus numbers, what is the bus number ?" "look carefully all the bus are painted with dfferent color and advertisement". sometime I ask her to observe what's the advertisement trying to message to public
-> alternative suggest to "look carefully" at the movie poster at cinema, I ask Selina to tell me what she understand story about the movie from the poster

patient
1. "wait" method
-> I'm not always react to Selina's request immediate, in order to train her patient

2. assign art task that need to use tracing method
-> trace shapes of bottles, various shapes toys, which also can train Selina's observation skills while patient to trace

focus / concerntration method
1. I train Selina's focusing on create toy truck
2. do rings art using beads and buttons, beads threading
3. pouring water from small cup to bigger cup, vice versa


never give up, retry and retry persistantly
1. art assignment that a little challenging for Selina
-> I try not to give Selina too much help, unless she request for or if she give up, I always say "try try again, I need your help to do". though it's breaken English, but this tone helps

2. conversation
-> when she requested or craving for raisin, I never give her immediate by ensure her requested me for at least 10 times, then I give her.
By using this method, when she try to avoid problems, I will recall to her that she is able to request raisin for 10 times, never give up, why can't she try 10 different method to solve her art creation problem.
-> I found this method is not fully effective sometime, due to tiring, I will let her decide her own in this case, either keep away the art stuff to let her take a break, cycling or lying on sofa day dreaming a while

day dream
1. lying on comfort zone
-> when I was child I love to day dream
-> Selina also like to day dream lying down on the sofa, looking at the blue sky outside windows. Sometime she will tell me raining soon, or sometime she will tell me sky like feather, rabbit etc
-> sometime she just lying quitely, I will give her drink some juice or water

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Mommy is the best teacher to teach at home, but must need some tools to help!

Most of working mother today are busy and always has tight schedule... but why is this happened ? Are we really don't have time to teach our kids ?

Not really, one of the reason is don't have useful tools or learning equipment at home....

Find out here for how to teach right brain drawing technique...

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Enjoy your bonding with your children everyday! :)

How to draw line - Right Brain Training

This is another line practise session for your toddler, you may try this method at home...

Right Brain Kids - Art Activities for Toddler Education and Parenting

It was an eye opener to me when my friend show me how her toddler is able to read at young age of 18 months old! Her son is attending enrichment school on right brain training. I'm not sure the popularity for this in other countries, but I'm sure right brain education for toddler is hot now!

I always wander what other methods to train toddlers' right brain? After I have done many research and reading, I found one of the best way is providing some art and craft tasks for them.

Here, I share some of my parenting tips from my experience and research.

Tips #1 Decorate your home with colorful posters
Display lots of strong colorful posters or cards, striking color is the best. This is to train the observation and focusing at home.

Tips #2 Flash at least 100 pcs of colorful flash card everyday
Plan a fix schedule of the day to flash at least 100 pcs of flash cards to your toddler. The best timing is after the child having milk or meal,and happy to play any games with you. This is to train the brain to be sensitive to different color.

Tips #3 Motor skill training for basic art and craft skills
Take note that all the motor skill is critical to allow your children to learn how to draw and control an art brushes. Activities such as pouring water from big cup to small cup, bead threading, tearing paper, practise how to hold children plastic scissors, but must be accompany by parents, train how to use chock-stick besides using spoon while feeding, train how to hold different type of pen, pencil, brush, thin, thick, long, short, big or small.

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Here simple craft activities for you!

Craft #1 Finger drawing using water color or poster color
Take a piece of paper, poster color, and let your toddler using their both hand to scribble, scribble and scribble...

Craft #2 Pasting stickers
You can buy from any stationery store and super mart for children sticker and let them paste sticker on an old daily.

Craft #3 Egg painting
You need to keep some egg shells without breaking the whole egg during cooking. This can be done by punching a small hold on top of the egg, and pour out the egg into a bowl. Securing the egg on a wooden stick and let your toddler color the egg using poster color.

Craft #4 Self or family portrait
You need to prepare family photos or your kids photo for this. Other material needed such as recycle color paper, newsletter or folder divider etc, seashell, hand made clay, paper glue, different colors of marker or color pencils. Ask your child to cut out the family members or self photo, paste it on color paper, then decorate the surrounding of the color paper with marker or color pencil, paste so other items such as seashell, clay etc to make the art work 3D looks.

Above tips are basic methods to train potential genius child in art at young age of 13 - 18 months old. It can be continue used for children above age of 1.5 years later with more complex activities and art and craft projects. Enjoy right brain parenting!

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How to Teach Right Brain Kids Art : Trial Lesson

Here quick session to view on how I teach my son Enzo on Right Brain Kids Art at home....

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Teach Your Toddler How To Draw Using Right Brain While Concentrate Learning For More Than 10 Minutes !

You may want to try this at home follow the trial process....

Teach my toddler How To Draw..

This video I uploaded to show how to draw an object at the same time how to train their right brain..

blow art 2

Selina wanted to make a different on her design.... improving an old skill by creating a new master piece...

This was done in 2006... compare to 2007 it's really different

note the object pasted for 2007 is more focus on one side...while 2006 is more spreaded whole paper... 2007 she add black, brown color

Selina Self portrait

This is how should age 3 self portrait looks like.... only "realised" on head and legs... Selina drawn her self portrait after line practise

clock

Selina created clock with mom's help... signed her name

Toy art

This is a new toy art created... rolling boat fun... sampan boat only can sit one person :D

Enzo waiting for his turn to play...

Expending creativity...

Selina is very good in writing.... still continuous improving and learning

This session also involve imagination and creativity...

Selina cutting out star

A Chistmas art session at Ker Ru home... Selina is cutting out the star for Ker Ru to make a Chritmas deco

making friends

Enzo making friends while joining the art session...

Enzo line practise 2

This is another line practise...

Managed to catch this snap before he "enhanced"

Enzo 1st line practise

This is Enzo 1st line practise ... already pick skills of holding pencil or marker