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Article: Creating with Crayons.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)
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- Arts & Activities
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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CREATING WITH CRAYONS. DVD/28 min./$29.95. Level: Elementary. Crystal Productions.
As basic as crayons are to an art program, they possess more qualities than one might first suspect. Peggy Flores guides viewers of this DVD through numerous different uses of crayons and also demonstrates the use of a variety of different types of crayons.
In just under 30 minutes, techniques such as shading and blending, crayon resist, crayon etching, ironing crayon shavings, crayon batik and crayon rubbings are demonstrated and explained. In each case the examples are presented in a manner that is suitable for teachers acquiring information, but also would be ...