Step-by-Step Instructions

• Use quarter inch plywood, cut into rectangles, glue them onto your painting surface.
• Spray paint the initial background color.
• Use felt tip markers to add linear designs over the surface.
• Paint dark and light blue areas with a brush.
• Paint Chinese Ideograms with a brush on top of the surface.

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• Spray paint hardboard for the background.
• Randomly drip white paint over the surface.
• Use a brush to add linear elements as desired.

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• Spray paint hardboard with yellow and brown colors.
• Paint Chinese characters with a brush.
• Drizzle white paint over the entire surface.
• Paint a white tree on a piece of Plexiglas, cut out the tree shape.
• Attach the Plexiglas tree onto the painting to create a layered, floating effect.

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• Spray hardboard with different colors to create a mystical, blended effect.
• Paint Chinese characters (opening lines of the Tao Te Ching) with a brush.
• Paint tree forms onto the surface.
• Cut out a white tree from paper, glue it onto the surface to add layered dimension.

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• Paint hardboard to create a mystical seascape.
• Paint background buildings to appear “floating”.
• Paint a red building to float over all other elements.
• Cut an opening in the hardboard and insert a dollhouse window into the red house.
• Paint the boat sail directly onto the surface.
• Carve a boat hull from wood, glue it onto the surface to complete the 3D effect.

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• Use spray paint and spatter techniques to create a mystical space on your surface.
• Paint a house shape with a brush.
• Cut out a tree shape from white paper, glue it onto the painting for added texture.

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• Transfer a basic drawing to two identical woodblocks.
• Carve the first block, leaving mountains, trees, and buildings raised.
• Ink the first block with dark blue ink and print onto light blue paper.
• Carve the second block to leave snow caps and selected roof/tree tops raised.
• Ink the second block with white ink, print onto the previously printed paper to add snow caps and highlights.

Step-by-Step Instructions

• Use a copper plate, apply acid to selected areas to etch.
• The longer the acid sits, the deeper the etch (darker in print).
• Use engraving tools to add lines to the plate after etching.
• Ink the plate (sepia or black ink), wipe off excess.
• Use an intaglio press to print onto paper.
• Result: a deeply etched, durable plate that can produce many prints.

Step-by-Step Instructions

• Cut basic shapes and lines into a copper plate using engraving tools, sandpaper, and scrapers.
• Print using an intaglio press onto paper.
• Once printed, use markers, crayons, or other media to work over the print.
• Result: a one-of-a-kind monoprint, part print, part drawing.

Step-by-Step Instructions

• Draw an abstract design on a wood block.
• Cut away all areas around the design, leaving the design raised.
• Apply ink to the raised design.
• Roll random blocks of yellow color on a sheet of paper.
• Press paper onto the inked woodblock to print.
• Use a second carved block with a different design, ink in another color.
• Print again on the same paper for layered color and design.