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Thanks for the feedback Phil. As for gluing down the salt I wouldn't say it is wrong.  Maybe the technique you used could create a snow on the mountain look if you were to leave the salt piled and in place.

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This is amazing Joelene. I love how you used layering to create so much texture. Well done!

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This is amazing Joelene. I love how you used layering to create so much texture. Well done!

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In a world of tight classroom resources, this project wins!

Your lesson was well thought out and presented. I found it engaging and easy to follow along.

I did something wrong when I tried the salt sprinkle effect... all I did was glue the salt to the paper.

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2 Stars
I love this activity so much. It will definitely replace painting with pigment in my classroom. The final product is so beautiful, the cost is so low and the scent is so lovely. I can't wait to try it out.
I appreciate your intro, especially the bit about the brushes, and the mini-activity of making different strokes and imagining what they could be used for.

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It would've been nice to do a little paint along, with a document camera perhaps, to see your techniques.

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I'm glad you enjoyed the activity Michelle and that you learned some new skills.  In the classroom with more time you would definitely want to spend a few lessons introducing elements and principles of art, perspective drawing techniques, and watercolour painting techniques. I would also do a few guided lessons as an introduction with provided templates before assigning this lesson, which would be more like a final project where students have to demonstrate the application of the skills they learned by creating and painting their own landscape.

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Nice work testing out some of the different ways to create texture in your art. I can clearly see you tried to create different tonal values and different textures. I'm glad you enjoyed the activity and agree that in person would be nice for this type of activity. I'm amazed by all the artwork you've all been able to create considering how little time we had for our workshops. I also like how we can use Padlet to share and provide feedback online where we can't be in person.

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Thanks for the feedback Melissa. I really like the splattering effect on your trees. I did not do that on mine and now I wish I would have. Nice work!

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Crystal,

Thank you for the creative coffee watercolor painting lesson today! Here is my 2 stars and 1 wish feedback:

Two Stars 🌟🌟

Your presentation introducing the activity was so organized and well-explained. You clearly conveyed all the steps, and I learned some new techniques.

Using different coffee tones to create depth and contrast in our paintings was eye-opening and fun. I loved exploring this unique art medium.

One Wish 🌟

I wish we could have done this lesson in person to display our finished coffee paintings for a gallery walk. Seeing everyone's creations up close would have been inspiring.

Thank you for teaching me about an art material I never would have thought to try on my own! Not only was this lesson engaging, but your clear instruction made the process very accessible.

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I loved this activity and can't wait to try it with my students! I really liked how you included all of the materials needed and the videos to watch before hand were really helpful.

I love that you shared all of the different brushes and types of textures we can add to our paintings. This was a lot of fun to create! I tried the one from the video to help me with shading ideas.

I would like to learn more about shadowing and shading in watercolour. That would be a great next lesson.

Excellent presentation thank-you!

Next time I would

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You put a tremendous amount of work into this presentation and it was outstanding. I was a little stressed that we had to draw a landscape before hand but it turned out not to be too hard. I learned 2 significant skills with your lesson - drawing landscapes and painting with coffee. I enjoyed both of then a great deal. I would like to try painting with paint to see if it is easier.

I like how organized you were and the preparation done ahead of time. The bags you put together for us to use were absolutely stocked full! I appreciated the effort and generosity. The videos to watch ahead of time were useful as well.

The only thing I would wish for since I'm not a painter would be some techniques to painting. Some of my experimentation didn't go quite so well.

Amazing activity though.

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To answer your question Steve you can used leftover coffee to get darker values. All you need to do is layer the coffee in areas you want to make darker until you achieve the desired value.

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This is a great base Natasha. If you are finding that your values are too similar just keep experimenting with the coffee to water ratios until you get the desired values. Layering will also help you define and darken areas if you are only using one value or leftover coffee rather than instant coffee.

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Wow this looks amazing Sara! I can tell you have some experience with painting with watercolours. I'm glad I was able to inspire you to begin using coffee for some of your paintings.

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Your water looks great and you didn't add too much coffee. You also left some areas untouched, which creates the appearance of reflections on the water. Well done!

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Even if you don't have a lot of drawing experience, you did pretty good for your first attempt. Creating the values and mastering the art of layering the different values takes time and practice. Nice work!

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The salt you used for the sky makes it look cloudy and has achieved an interesting effect. Well done! If you want to add more definition in the landscape I would mix a few darker values to define and shade where it may be needed.

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Dave your artwork turned out great! The detailing and splatters you added for the wood makes it look so real. Excellent work!

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Your artwork looks great Jessica. If you test this out with your students you can also have them test out spices as well for pops of colour.

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Steve I love all the shadows you created in your landscape. It looks amazing! Also, there are many food items such as beets, purple cabbage, tea, spices (ex turmeric, paprika, chili powder), etc you can use to create your own watercolour pigments. If you look at my blog you will see I tested this when creating my own dyes to dye easter eggs. These could also be used as watercolour paints.

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Ryan, the salt you used on the wet paint for the river looks great and adds depth and movement to your landscape. Well done!

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Nice work Faye! I like how you used the dry on wet technique to outline and add definition to your landscape.

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Excellent work Siobhan. Your artwork is beautiful. I love how you did your shading on the trees to make them appear closer and how you used layering on the water to create movement.

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I love the detail you put in the rocks along the shoreline. The shading you did makes them look so realistic.

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I really enjoyed this activity! The simplicity of using coffee had never occurred to me and yet it works so well. I had lots of fun trying out all the techniques and layering on depths of colour. I would love to try this again now I know what it is all about!

I also really appreciated how organized and prepared you were, no detail was left undone! Very impressive!

I wish we could also play with spices :)

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This was so fun and would be fairly simple to do in the classroom! Loved how cost-effective this art project would be and how you can teach so many skills with it.

I did find it difficult to blend the colours across the paper but that likely has to do with my mixing ability than anything else. Nice work!

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If you were to do this with younger children who have not yet developed the skills necessary for drawing a landscape (one or two point perspective) I would break this lesson down into multiple lessons and teach them the drawing techniques first. Then I would practice how to create values and create textures. Next I would have them complete a guided lesson where everyone is using the same template before having them create their own individual landscapes. If students need a landscape sketch for reference you google search a landscape pencil sketch and print multiple copies for students to practice on. Also, before doing any art lessons I always start the year teaching students about the elements of art and principles of design where they are often referenced in other lessons throughout the school year.

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Link to My Makers Going to Make Journey:
https://www.exploringmakingartdesignandtechnologyineducation.com/makers-going-to-make-project

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Introduction to Painting with Coffee By Crystal Smith

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Two Stars, One Wish
2 Stars:
1. I love that this is an activity that could easily be done in classroom.
2. Great examples of brush strokes, technique and finished projects.
1 Wish:
1. More time so that we could delve a little more into mixing different values (as I felt like mine were similar).

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My favourite part of this was how such a simple, easily accessed ingredient can produce such variety of tone and texture!

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Great lesson structure. I felt like I had a lot of tools to go into my creative process with.

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This was such an interesting activity! It has peaked my interesting in exploring making paint! definitely something I would love to do with my class!

The supplies you provided  us all with was so well organized and thorough it made the whole thing so much easier!
I liked exploring the different techniques.

I wish we had had some more time! and its too bad the video was glitchy but that is out of everyone's control and the nature of distance learning!!

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Such a low cost unique way to do water colour painting. Very fun and interesting way to paint.

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Such a low cost unique way to do water colour painting. Very fun and interesting way to paint.

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The salt on the coffee made such a cool detail in the river on my design. The plastic wrap was very cool as well!

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The salt on the coffee made such a cool detail in the river on my design. The plastic wrap was very cool as well!

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Wish that I had a printed landscape that was better than my drawing. A better looking landscape would be much more fun to paint for those of us who can't draw very well.

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Wish that I had a printed landscape that was better than my drawing. A better looking landscape would be much more fun to paint for those of us who can't draw very well.

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A scene from our cabin at Nicola Lake

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This was a really fun and interesting activity. A great way to take something simple and turn it into something beautiful.

I thought the links and images you had were helpful and I could totally see myself doing this with my class.

I wish I had a of time to keep working on this!

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I liked how tranquil it was creating a tonal landscape - the coffee smells added to the calming experience.

The materials are easily accessible and go a long way. I barely used much of the coffee grounds provided to create the composition.

I think it would be valuable to get students to create a value scale using their mixed coffee grounds before starting their landscapes. That way they understand the material and how to achieve different tonal values.

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The best part is the ease of finding the materials. I wonder how well used coffee would work?

I also wonder what other kinds of spices and plant dyes could be created. Dandilion, beets, etc.

With limited tones that can be created I found it hard to get areas darker after I already used dark colours. Maybe some steps of how to go from light areas to darker ones would be useful.

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I like how the paint material is easy to find and inexpensive.

I'm sure there are many more ways to texture - I found one by accident I was erasing my pencil marks after I had painted and the eraser was removing paper and it left little pieces of paper and I thought to brush them off but I left them for texture.

I wish I had a better background on how to paint 3D onto a 2D format.

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I very much enjoyed this project.  I don't know if it was the sepia effect but it turned out beautifully.  I liked that the materials are inexpensive, non-toxic, and easy to clean.  I would love to see with the kids could come up with, especially with the creativity of tools. 

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I very much enjoyed this project.  I don't know if it was the sepia effect but it turned out beautifully.  I liked that the materials are inexpensive, non-toxic, and easy to clean.  I would love to see with the kids could come up with, especially with the creativity of tools. 

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It's supposed to be Waikiki Beach with Diamondhead in the background in Hawaii

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I really liked to concept of using coffee to create different tones of stain and using a variety of commonly available household items/materials to create different patterns or effects.

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I really liked to concept of using coffee to create different tones of stain and using a variety of commonly available household items/materials to create different patterns or effects.

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As someone who is not an artist and has never attempted something like this before, a wish would have been to have provided us all with a pre-sketched template that you could have guided us through step-by-step on the process of creating the completed piece. I feel as if mine ultimately kind of ended up looking like one tone throughout the entire piece.  Without being able to see my pencil lines I don't think it would ultimately be recognizable as anything.

However, I appreciate that this is an activity/lesson that requires much more time than we have been allotted in this class and with a lot more time I think I could have created a much better final product. Something I might definitely try on my own when I can devote a lot more time to it.

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Hard to come up with an area for improvement. I would say that (if there was more time) it would be great to learn more about painting technique that lend themselves to this coffee paint medium :D

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I feel like I would have templates available for the kids as well as blank canvas paper.  Perhaps they could learn about techniques on the templates before applying them to their drawn landscapes.

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I feel like I would have templates available for the kids as well as blank canvas paper.  Perhaps they could learn about techniques on the templates before applying them to their drawn landscapes.

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I wish it was decaf so I could drink the remaining coffee crystals..

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I wish it was decaf so I could drink the remaining coffee crystals..