| Stage 1  Firstly get the children to
draw birds on a piece of paper, using an
ordinary pencil – just simple shapes will do. Make
them approximately 2½ins long. Place
some clear acetate over the drawings and trace the around the outline of the birds with
some Cerne Relief outliner, just as you would when icing a cake. Simply touch the end of
the nozzle onto the acetate; squeeze the tube until some Cerne comes out. Now lift and
pull, following the lines of your drawing. Depending
on their ages, children should be able to manage most of this without help.
 Stage 2
To keep
the birds flat while they are painted, stick the clear acetate containing the bird
outlines onto some card. Now the fun starts. Fill in the birds with a chosen Pebeo crystal
gel colour such as Antique Orange and Ruby for the body and push it around with your
brush. Use Sun Yellow for the beak – it
doesn’t want to be smooth so don’t worry too much. Use different colour gels for
the other birds to add colour and variety.
 Stage 3
While the
gel is still wet, decorate the birds by carefully adding some tail and wing feathers. Now
twirl some little pieces of wire and place them in to the gel to act as the birds' plumes.
Stage
4
Once the
gel has dried, cut the birds out of the acetate – be careful around the tails and
wire pieces though. Now it’s time to make the cloud that the birds will hang from.
 Stage 5
Using
Cerne Relief again on a piece of acetate and outline a cloud, fill this in with a Pebeo
crystal gel colour such as Aquamarine, pushing it around as before.
 Stage 6
Once
everything is dry, string clouds and birds together using a needle and thread, and attach
to your clouds to create a beautiful bird mobile for hanging in a window. You can then
attach the cloud to a coat hanger with thread to create a bird mobile.It’s as simple
as that. The grandchildren can hang
their mobiles in their bedroom and recall a happy day with grandma or grandpa.This is just
one of the simple projects taken from Judy Balchin’s 3-Dimensional Glass Painting
video, available at good art and craft stores or by mail order from SAA home Shopping,
priced at £17.99 Call FREEphone 0800 980 1123 or see the website address below.
 Teaching Art was formed in 1985 with one clear aim: to
deliver the very best instruction through popular media. The fact that it has succeeded is clear. The organisation runs the SAA, Society for All
Artists, which has over 17,500 members in 55 countries world wide, making it the largest
art organisation of its kind. It runs its own mail order catalogue business, which allows
people to purchase a wide range of top quality art videos, books and materials.
 The secret of Teaching Art's success is the video. Videos
allow you to choose your artist and feel as if you are on the tip of their brush or pencil
as you are visually and aurally guided through their composition. On top of this, there is the added benefit
of stopping, pausing and rewinding whenever you like. Back-up books that accompany most
videos enhance the learning experience. Teaching
Art have produced over  150
titles in a variety of mediums from the very popular watercolour and oils through to art
and craft videos.
Website: www.teachingart.com and www.saa.co.uk
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