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I found a great website that has lots of FREE art to download, and every picture looks like an old etching. If you paint over printouts lightly with watercolor, you can get a very pretty handpainted effect.My school has a Diversity Day celebration every spring, and I need some quick art projects representing many different countries. Irecently stumbled upon http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ and was thrilled! There are 47,000 images all made for teachers to download, and they are all tagged so it’s easy to search for whatever you need. This picture was painted by 4th graders who chose Germany as their theme. I love the old-fashioned look them, and the students seemed to really enjoy just concentrating on their painting skills.
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I am using your blog for ideas for our homeschool art lessons this summer and next year.
I love this idea. Did you print the pictures out on watercolor paper? Thanks for the help and all of your creative ideas.
This site is a great source for cub scouts and girl scouts also. Thanks!
This site is a homeschooling treasure! We're reading Romeo and Juliet, and I just found beautiful clip art for it in there. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks! I had to have my students make "thank you" cards for the school volunteers. I went to that site, found a great picture of a California Quail, had the kids use colored pencil (no time for watercolor yesterday), and voila! Thank you cards that showed off what we're learning in 4th grade (California Social Studies). The kids loved it! It was so successful that another teacher is using my idea to do her cards! :) All thanks to you!
To answer appliejuice, no I didn't use watercolor paper. Wish I had the budget for it! Just used drawing paper with light painting and it looked fine.
Thank you for posting this website. We recently moved to Germany with our 10 yr old son, and the drawings will be a wonderful art project to the travel we have enjoyed.
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