 Hi everybody thank you so much for joining us this week. This week we're gonna do tissue paper painting so we're gonna show you a cool technique to be able to turn out some really like watercolor style painting using tissue paper and crayons. So put that aside for in the meantime. If you haven't joined Summer Reading just yet be sure to join us by going to longbeach.beenstack.org creating your account and signing up for our Summer Reading challenge. We have a ton of cool prizes for you to win, books for you to read, activities for you to complete, reviews for you to write. I mean just a ton of stuff. It's just the greatest reading program that we offer every year. One more can be said. If you're already part of Summer Reading be sure to enter the code orange into the activity tab of your reading challenge to earn a point for watching this activity today and you may be one of the lucky winners of our gift card drawing at the end of this week. Okay if you picked up one of the tissue paper painting kits from one of our libraries then you should have everything you need. Otherwise you'll want to gather a couple of supplies which I'll tell you about in just a minute. Okay so get a little closer and I'll show you what we're doing today. Okay so let's get tissue paper painting. The first thing you're gonna want to know is set down some paper. I've got here some brown construction paper onto the surface that you're gonna be working so that you don't get it all messy. This craft is incredibly messy because water and pigment are involved. So if you have an apron be sure to put that on. If you want some gloves be sure to find a couple of those so that your hands don't get all stained up and we will go from there. Okay take a second to protect your surface and yourself from pigments. Okay I'm not gonna do that so we'll get started. I've got these two pieces of brown construction paper here and what we're making today essentially is a tissue paper resist painting. So you can see here that my colleague Jessica created this. You'll see all the little spaces where she put tissue paper and then you'll also see that she actually made a drawing of a sunflower before she put the tissue paper on using crayons. We gave you some crayons in the kit either white or colored so you'll see that you can actually do your own design using whatever colors you'd like and then after that put the tissue paper on there. Resist painting is a technique that is used when you lay down either wax or crayon or pastels really anything that is waterproof and then lay down a water-based paint on top. So you can see actually that you can see some of the crayon lines that resisted the watercolor and that's why it's called tissue paper resist painting. The first thing you're gonna want to do is actually draw your design onto the watercolor paper and then we're gonna lay down the tissue paper. So grab your watercolor paper here I've got a blank one and what I think I'm going to do is draw a ghost. So using this white crayon I'm going to draw a ghost and you want to be sure to really like lay down a crayon line. This should this is not the time to like draw lightly you really want to press down on the crayon to make sure that you get a really good crayon line and I'll show you what I mean. So if you're drawing and you just do this you lay down a super light crayon line. What you really want to do with this so that the crayon has a chance to resist the watercolor is really really pressed down. Be careful not to break the crayon obviously but you want something that is going to really really really protect the paper underneath from absorbing any watercolor. So you can see the difference. We've got a super light crayon line here and then we've got a really thicker more sort of like potent crayon line there and this is what you want so that your design actually comes through. Okay so what am I going to do I'm going to draw first a couple of eyes and you may not be able to see what I'm doing because it's white crayon on white paper but you can see I'm really really pressing down here and making sure that we have a good amount of crayon there. Then I'm going to space out and do the other eye for my ghost. You can actually do whatever design you want if you want to do flowers or a landscape or a person. You can really do whatever you like. I'm just doing a ghost because I feel like it's an easy thing to draw for the purposes of this video here today. Okay so I've got my two eyes there they're kind of hard to see on video but they're there and the next thing I'm going to need is a ghost mouth and ghosts are always going like so it's going to be an open ghost mouth and then I'm going to need a ghost shape so I'm going to do a nice ghost shape and I'm going to be sure to like go over it a couple of times so that you know it resists the water color. It's hard to see on the video but it is there and then I'm going to do the ghost skirt is what I call it whereas all roughly at the bottom right and then I'm just going to go over that a couple of times here so that it resists the paper or sorry resist the tissue paper. Okay so I've got my ghost and it has a couple of eyes a little mouth the ghost you know shape and then the ghost skirt at the very bottom. So now I'm ready to move on to the next part of this craft. If you're still drawing go ahead and pause the video and then when you're done drawing with crayon hit play again to catch up with us for the next part okay those of you who are done drawing keep on watching because what we're going to do next is going to be pretty pretty cool. The next thing you're going to need is your tissue paper so you have a bunch of different colors so now is the time to decide which colors that you're going to use right my ghost is you know hanging out at nighttime so I'm going to I'm not going to use any of the reds or oranges or you know I'm going to use mostly blues and purples and maybe even a couple of greens because I want to make it seem like it's nighttime where my ghost is. So you go ahead and decide which colors you want to use I want to go ahead and put all of these sort of off to the side except for the purples and the blues maybe even some of the browns and so this is really going to set the color for what you're going to be doing. So if you've got a scene that's in the daytime you want to be sure to use some of those yellows and lighter colors you know or maybe you just want to do like a multicolored scene and that's perfectly okay too so in that case you can use any color or every color that came with with your tissue paper. Okay so I think I've got enough so what we're going to do now is I've got all of these pieces of tissue paper and what I'm going to do is with my spray bottle that came in your kit you are going to fill it up with water if you don't if you didn't pick up one of the kits just find any spray bottle around the house put a little water in it and that should work just fine okay you don't need a ton of water for this part so don't get super super crazy but you do need a little bit so what I'm going to do is move my tissue paper so it doesn't get wet and then very very gingerly spray my paper with my crayon drawing on it okay so I'm just going to spray it a couple of times there and the reason that we're spraying it now is so that the tissue paper actually has something to stick to so you want to make sure that it gets a little bit wet and then what you want to do is lay down your tissue paper and try to stick it a little bit to the paper that's underneath and wet so you can see I'm doing this piece by piece if you want to rip these pieces into something smaller you totally can I'm just doing it this way because it's a little bit faster the watercolor paper may start curling as well and that's okay because you can always flatten it later or put it in a frame or put it on the fridge really whatever you also want to be mindful of the colors that you lay next to each other because they're going to start to mix okay so maybe I need a couple more pieces of tissue paper and you're going to find out once you do your own design that maybe you know oh maybe I need a few more reds or maybe I need a few more this and that's okay you have plenty of time you can actually just go back to your stack of tissue paper and find the colors you need and then add them to your design so here I need a little bit more water up at the top and in middle there and I'm just gonna lay these down the ones that I just got and then once you're done laying down the tissue paper you know you can either fill up the the whole paper if you want or just parts of the paper it's up to you but once you're done with the tissue paper laying down the tissue paper you want to give it another spray with your spray bottle so we're gonna do this and you want to make sure to get that tissue paper nice and wet but not like so it's dripping you know just enough so that it actually starts leaching into the paper so you can actually see in areas that there is a little bit of color being blended into the white paper see there's a little bit there there's a little bit there and in areas where you see like you feel like there isn't enough you can always spray a little bit more water or get the spray bottle a little bit closer to the paper so that it actually gets nice and wet and then once you have this you actually just want to let it dry okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna leave this here and let it dry and I'll come back when it's dry and then we'll take off the tissue paper to see the design underneath okay all right folks so we waited a little bit of time for this to dry we are back it looks like it's pretty dry at this point so let's check out to see how the design turned out one of the cool things about tissue paper painting is that it's very unpredictable I will say that now before I start peeling off these pieces of tissue paper you can see they pretty much fall off and you just have to move them a tiny tiny bit but you can also see that my design actually came out pretty good you can kind of see that there's a little bit of a ghost there you can see the little ghost skirt down at the bottom you can kind of see the you know the face here and some of the bell up here so yeah so that is my my ghost design you can see why it's so important to really really press down on the crayon because the crayon is what protects the paper underneath from absorbing the pigment in the tissue paper I probably could have pressed down a little bit harder up here or even sprayed a little bit more water but it's a pretty cool little ghost little ghost tissue paper painting that I've got going on here so hopefully your design turned out really really good and really really colorful now that you know this technique you can actually do a bunch of different things with it okay everybody so we're pretty much done with our tissue paper paintings I made myself a ghost if you aren't finished keep working no biggie now that you know the resist paint technique you can actually use crayons or wax or pastels really anything kind of waxy like that along with any water-based paint for example watercolors if you have those at home or the tissue paper that you didn't use for this one to make more art not bad huh you can use all the color that is inside of the tissue paper and watercolor to really you know bring out your creativity so thanks for joining us today if you haven't typed in the code orange into the activity tab of your beanstack challenge be sure to do so now so that you get 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