The Art of Tea Bag Painting
Painting Materials
A course by Ruby Silvious , Graphic Designer and Visual Artist
About the video: Painting Materials
Overview
“This lesson will cover the materials you will use for your painting project. Let's get started!”
In this video lesson Ruby Silvious addresses the topic: Painting Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Tea Bag Painting. Explore watercolor and gouache to create miniature paintings using the emptied-out tea bags as a canvas..
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that we have discussed the different teabags, in this lesson, we will go over the materials for painting. The first thing you'll need is watercolor paper or something very absorbent that you can put your teabag canvas on. You will also need a piece of paper towel so you can dab your brushes on them. So you will of course need a palette, watercolor, and it doesn't have to be very expensive, it can be unbranded. You can go to the dollar store and get a watercolor there. Gouache, brushes, all types of brushes from fine to medium. It does not have to be very thick unless you want to cover a...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Tea Bag Painting
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Watercolor Painting
Ruby Silvious
A course by Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious is a Graphic Designer and Visual Artist based in the United States. She has been making upcycled art since she retired, taking discarded materials to create unique worlds of art. Her claim to fame is her work using tea bags, which went viral on Instagram in 2015. It has since been featured in international publications such as CNN Travel, PBS, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan China, and Vogue Italia. Her work has been exhibited across the world, from the U.S. to Japan to Europe.
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