09
May
A Beginner’s Guide to Brushwork, Lesson #24
Come and join us for our brushwork lesson #24! This homeschool handicraft project is from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, and is called A Lesson on Corn and Mice. It features several corn stalks and introduces a quick and simple method to paint mice. It's a fun lesson to do, even if you're not too fond of mice. In the lesson, the "corn" looks suspiciously like wheat, which bothered me more than it should. As for the mice, it was fun to see how a simple brush stroke could be the foundation of a little rodent. Our...