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Using your original sketch as a guide, place each stencil or paint-loaded stamp in turn

onto its location on your painting paper.

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Paint in the stencil in dry-brush technique (or press the stamp firmly down).

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Let each painted area dry before touching it with the next stencil. Speed up the

process with a fan, hair dryer, or the blowing technique.

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After practicing on scratch paper, try shading the same side of some of the

motifs with a darker shade of the same color to show the volume or roundness

of the object. (Dip the stamp into two shades of paint, one from each edge)

Publication and Closure: Make a paper mat or frame around your finished drawing.

Hang it up with others as an exhibit with labels telling your title, your name, the technique, and the

date.

Make a label to place on the wall next to the work. The label should describe to your viewers the

steps of making stenciled or stamped theorem paintings.

Assessment: student paintings should reflect the placement of stencils or stamps in position, rather

than a drawing and painting technique. The written label should reflect a correct sequence of steps

and tools needed to make a theorem painting.

Illinois State Board of Education Goals and Standards addressed:

Visual Art: (see grade levels for specific standards)

26.A: Understand the processes, traditional tools ...used in the arts.

26.B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create art.

27.A:Understand the role of the arts in civilizations, past and present.