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poster paint

[′pōs·tər ‚pānt]
(materials)
A water paint with a gum binder, which is brilliant, opaque, and fast-drying, and usually sold in jars. Also known as show-card color.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Ken Aspinall, a member of the committee urging a council rethink, said: "We used poster paint on the pavement and it's almost gone now.
To make your own Herta Easter Bunny you will need: An egg, a pin, a needle, a bowl, a square of white felt (10cm x 10cm will be enough), a pair of scissors, white poster paint and brush, a black marker, PVA glue and cotton wool.
At a similar time vandals also climbed into St Nicholas Primary School, Kenilworth from the Blundells where they damaged the walls and windows of the nursery school by painting them with black poster paint. A window was also smashed.
Artist Tina Cintron demonstrates her spontaneous approach to making large paintings with poster paint. Working quickly and without any prior sketching, she uses mostly large flat bristle brushes to create backgrounds for landscapes and then adds details on top of the dry paint.
There are also seventeen works made with poster paint on paper, erotically charged depictions of the young men's grimacing faces and wild brawls.
Using acrylic paint, poster paint, colored pencil, mixed media, or other suitable medium, the students then work towards finishing their paintings.
I remember using white poster paint to be Cruella de Vil, and almost blinded myself.
Creating his pieces with kid-friendly materials, such as crayons and poster paint, and the same levels of enthusiasm as children, his resulting landscapes are depicted with odd perspectives, solid colours and geographical inaccuracies: in one painting you can see the long-gone Maritime Museum next to the brand new Senedd building.
Thumbprint chicks You will need: | Yellow ink or poster paint (washable only!) | Scraps of orange paper or a fine orange felt tip pen | Fine black marker pen | White paper or card | Googly eyes or tiny circles of paper | Glue Method Get your child to press their thumb into the ink or paint and make a thumb print onto a piece of white paper or card.
Still, there's plenty of fun to be had in simply wandering around and seeing what you want in the abstract imagery; a more accomplished and challenging version of the butterfly-like poster paint prints we all did as a child.
Press your hand covered in blue poster paint in the middle of some white paper, for the angel's dress.
On the horizon the sea meets the sky and both are an improbable blue - like poster paint blue used by a child for a seaside painting.
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