{"id":2135,"date":"2017-01-20T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T02:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2017-01-20T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T02:49:41","slug":"watercolour-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2017\/01\/20\/watercolour-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explored&nbsp;a new watercolour technique to create a &#8216;textured&#8217; background <strong>SALT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We used two different varieties of salt (coarse and table) to create an interesting background for our snowflakes. &nbsp;We had a great time mixing and blending the liquid watercolours, and learning about <strong>polychromatic<\/strong> colour schemes. &nbsp;We learned quickly that we needed to add the salt while the paint was still wet, or we wouldn&#8217;t achieve the desired effect.<\/p>\n<p>We also worked on developing our fine motor skills by folding paper and cutting small shapes or pieces out to create our own snowflakes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our gallery below to see the work in progress, as well as the finished product&#8211;or stop by and check out our bulletin board display.<\/p>\n<p>[ngg_images source=&#8221;galleries&#8221; container_ids=&#8221;5&#8243; display_type=&#8221;photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow&#8221; gallery_width=&#8221;320&#8243; gallery_height=&#8221;240&#8243; cycle_effect=&#8221;fade&#8221; cycle_interval=&#8221;10&#8243; show_thumbnail_link=&#8221;1&#8243; thumbnail_link_text=&#8221;[Show picture list]&#8221; order_by=&#8221;sortorder&#8221; order_direction=&#8221;ASC&#8221; returns=&#8221;included&#8221; maximum_entity_count=&#8221;500&#8243;]&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explored&nbsp;a new watercolour technique to create a &#8216;textured&#8217; background SALT! We used two different varieties of salt (coarse and table) to create an interesting background for our snowflakes. &nbsp;We had a great time mixing and blending the liquid watercolours, and learning about polychromatic colour schemes. &nbsp;We learned quickly that we needed to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2017\/01\/20\/watercolour-techniques\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}