Welcome to The Finger Painting Club by the Painting Panda!

One of my favorite parts of being an artist is getting to really engage my 5 senses while painting.  Smelling the brand new canvas, and the different types of paints I use bring my nose alive.  Squishing paint out of my soft plastic tubes of paint, is very satisfying for my hands.  Hearing the metal and plastic knives scrape against the rough weave in my canvas while I'm painting increase my creativity thanks to my ears.  This may seem odd, but I love being able to hold a paint brush or two in my mouth while I'm working with other brushes or knives painting on my canvas.  Seeing the beautiful, vibrant, smooth, hues spread across a white background enlivens my mind.  Even though all these examples use the 5 senses: eyes, nose, mouth, hands, and ears.  There is something I absolutely love to do more than anything else...

FINGER PAINTING!!!  I love feeling the cool thick acrylic paint almost float across my canvas.  I love feeling the thin wet liquid paint drip and splatter all over my canvas.  I love feeling wet paper get a little warmer when I press my finger tip to it lifting off wet watercolor paint. Painting with our fingers isn't just with acrylic, tempera, washable gel paint.  We can finger paint with many different types of mediums.

Join me on this super fun, kinda messy, very creative class as we explore different art mediums (mediums= tools used for art like paint, pastels, etc).  Each Tuesday I will post the instructional videos no later than 5pm.  Each Thursday I will post any of the following: a Q&A, tip video customized to the students in each class, an interactive video.  These are to add more interaction to the class, and can be answered, but I do know that with this age range parents are going to be highly involved, so do what you can.  Saturdays are art submission days, where I'll ask for each student to submit an image of their art for the week, comment on their classmate's work in a positive manner, and I'll critique and give comments about each student's art in their individual emails.

Parents, you will more than likely be helping your learners with these projects, to help facilitate the paint so there is less mess, and more fun!

Here is what we will be working on:
Week 1: Lines: Sunset
Week 2: Texture: Cross Hatching 
Week 3: Swirls: Flowers
Week 4: Mirror Images: we will be using plastic wrap