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How
to use your FAS Water-Soluble Dyes effectively
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Here Enhancing
your Classroom Program.
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Dye
is an extremely versatile art product, which can be used to enhance your
classroom displays over all curriculum areas.
It
can be used successfully with a range of other art products but is particularly
successful over crayon and pastel making backgrounds colourful and bright.
It
can be managed in the same way as paint using thick and thin brushes with one
brush per jar or alternatively a brush per child that can be wiped before using
a new colour. This will avoid
brushes ending up in one jar and spoiling of colours.
Where
dyes are being used in small areas and colours are not to be blended a small
amount of each dye can be placed in a paint palette and a cotton bud used to
apply the dye.
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Art
Techniques for your Classroom
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Crayon
and Dye
Children draw pictures using wax crayons colouring in as much as possible.
Use one or more dye colours to wash, with a brush, over entire picture.
For
a different effect, several colours of dyes can be applied wet and they will
bleed into each other creating interesting colour effects. |
Chalk/Crayon
Resist
Use chalk to draw a thick outline of your
picture.
Use wax crayons to colour in your picture between the chalk outlines i.e.
you are colouring in your picture.
Make up one dark dye colour (preferably black) to wash over the entire
picture.
This will wash away the chalk outlines.
Crayon
Batik
Children crayon a picture, a motif, or a design heavily.
They then crumple the picture, flatten it and crumple it again.
This can be done several times to obtain a crumpled batik effect.
Smooth the picture flat and paint over dye (one colour) into the cracks
of the crayon.
Turn the picture over on to newsprint and smooth out the picture so that
the newspaper absorbs excess dye.
Water-resistant
pens with dye
Using
a water resistant pen (preferably black), or ink, draw a picture.
Mix up several dye colours.
Use the dye colours to paint in between or over the pen outline i.e. you
are painting your picture with the dye.
Do not worry if the dyes bleed into each other.
You
can also paint your picture with the dyes first then outline using the pen or
ink.
Sprinkled
Dye
Using
a white or pale coloured crayon children draw their picture.
Wet the entire picture with a paintbrush.
Using dry dye powder sprinkle onto the wet paper picture.
N.B.
Use a tea strainer, a sieve, or a salt or peppershaker to sprinkle the dry dye.
Dry
off any excess water by blotting or dabbing gently with newspaper.
Dry spots of dye can be dabbed with a paper towel.
FAS
Craft Glue or Elmers Glue and Dye
Use
pre-coloured Elmer’s glue (black) or colour the glue with black ink.
Children draw their pattern or picture with the glue.
Leave until completely dry, and then dye within the spaces.
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