This week’s Art Challenge is: ART FROM NATURE
This week we want you to get outdoors to find your artistic inspiration. Maybe that means making a collage out of collected flora and fauna, or printmaking with leaves. CREATE’s Event Organizer, Kateri Foreman, decided to try her hand at making all-natural, homemade watercolour from beets! Check out her ‘How to Video’ and keep reading for the recipe!
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Homemade Beet Watercolour Paint Recipe
Equipment
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Mesh sieve
- Saucepan
- Small pots/sealable containers
Ingredients
- Water 1 – 2 cups
- Beets 3 – 4, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Roughly chop your veggies (no need to peel!)
- In a saucepan, combine 2 cups of water to 1 cup of veg
- Bring to a low boil
- Reduce temperature and simmer for about 30 mins to an hour – or until desired pigment is reached
- Use strips of watercolour paper to test
- Cool to room temperature and strain into pots
- Get painting! Use your pigments just like watercolours
Tip: Don’t forget to refrigerate your paint between uses, otherwise it will turn and start to stink pretty quickly!
Tip: You can use the same method with other veggies to make different colours! Yellow/orange – carrots, orange peel, celery leaves; green – grass, spinach, kale; red/purple – red cabbage!
Stay tuned for more homemade paint tutorials coming soon!
How to share your work:
Use the hashtag #createthesummer
Follow and tag us @createniagra on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter
Email us at hello@createniagara.com with the subject line “Challenge 7”
We can’t wait to see what you CREATE!
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