Arts and Handwork
updated February 10, 2010

Watercolor Painting

• It's exciting to create the intermediate tones by blending 2 primary colors on your wet paint paper.

  Click here for a downloadable manual on mixing Stockmar's carmine, lemon and ultramarine water colors to create all the colors of the color circle.

Beeswax Crayons

• More online manuals by Stockmar, including working with beeswax crayons, painting and layering techniques, etching and melting, and combining wax crayons with watercolors

Lesson Plans

• Activities from MaryAnn Kohl's excellent series of art books for young children
  provided free online by her publisher, Gryphon House.

  Includes activities from the following books:

Handwork

• How to sew a felt ball from The Silver Penny
  (similar to directions in Feltcraft)