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In this craft, we'll be making graffiti bottles out of paint and warm water. It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

The Lesson:

This craft is an opportunity to teach about the composition of paint. Paints are made of three main components called the pigment, the binder, and the solvent. The pigment is the colour chemical in the paint, so if you're making graffiti bottles of different colours, you can explain that this is because they have different pigments. This craft is an opportunity to teach about abstract expressionist painting. Students can learn the difference between realistic paintings, which are intended to convey subjects as they really appear, and expressionist paintings, which are intended to convey feelings or ideas in a more abstract way. An artist whose work is useful to help explain abstract expressionism is Jackson Pollock. Pollock, pictured below, used sprays of paint to cover a canvas, using only splashes of colour to illustrate a feeling.

Jackson Pollock at work in his studio

`Convergence', 1952 by Jackson Pollock

What you need:

-spray bottle -acryllic paint -water

Step 1. Add warm water to an empty spray bottle

Step 2. Add paint Step 3. Mix it up

Step 4. Try different colours

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