My students love this activity. Fold newspaper three times to create a rustic palette. Add primary colours, red, blue and yellow to the newspaper plus white. Use medium size flat brushes to mix colour to paint but no water! Show students the artwork of Australian artist Queenie McKenzie as inspiration for painting the landscapes of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Students can clean their brush from time to time by painting onto their palette but encourage them to take risks and discover what wonderful colours they can create by mixing. The newspaper palette can be folded together to spread remaining paint, left to dry and used for future collage projects, or left-over paint used in a communal artwork with a similar theme.
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