Crayons, colored pencils, and markers are types of art materials called mediums. Mediums can be things like clay, wood, or fabric. You can use paint or even a tablet or computer to make art. These are all different mediums. Artists sometimes use tools like paintbrushes, hammers, sewing needles, and 3-D printers to use the mediums.
When an artist uses more than one material, like paint and crayons or yarn and wood. This is called mixed media or mixed mediums. If you use a pencil to draw something and then crayons to color it – you used mixed mediums!
Choose an activity to explore a Medium:
- Pen and Puffy Paint – Scouts draw a group of balloons, bugs, or cupcakes using pen, then add puffy paint to decorate each one with color, texture, and patterns.
- Line Experiment – Scouts create the same line-based artwork using two different art mediums and compare the results.
- Mixed Mediums – Scouts choose a craft project and create artwork using recycled, found, or mixed media materials.
- Single Medium – Scouts choose an art material and create a unique piece using color, shape, line, and texture.
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