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Printmaking: Create Patterns with DIY Foam Stamps

July 25, 2025 by Barbara Rucci 4 Comments

Hello printmaking friends! I’m back with another DIY stamping idea for you. I’ve been on a pattern-making kick since I started Collage Club in May. Each month, I am making a postcard to go with the theme. It’s been so fun and inspiring to get back to my pattern-making roots, and it has forced me…

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Harris Walz Collagraph Prints

October 4, 2024 by Barbara Rucci Leave a Comment

Harris Walz handmade prints in a stack next to a printing plate

If you know me at all or follow me anywhere, you know that I have strong guiding principles which I live by. None stronger than leading with love. Radical love is my north star, not that I am perfect, but I try and frame everything and respond to everything with that lens. This makes it…

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Mixing Skin Tones Using Primary Colors

November 14, 2020 by Barbara Rucci 9 Comments

Using primary color tempera paints to mix skin tones for art class.

I’m back with more color mixing! Last week we mixed secondary and tertiary colors (check out this video) and today we are mixing skin tones using primary colors! This is pretty sophisticated stuff, and hopefully I do a good job of explaining the concepts of mixing browns in the video below. Don’t be intimidated, though,…

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Color Mixing for Art Class

November 3, 2020 by Barbara Rucci 15 Comments

Color mixing tempera paints for art class! In this video I will show you how I make vibrant and opaque colors for use on cardboard, paper, and more. Learn about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors (the best ones to make)!

I’ve been wanting to make a color theory and color mixing video for YEARS! I’m so exciting to finally share this video that I made showing you how I mix my colors for art class with tempera paints. (Watch Part 2 here, where I show you how to mix skin tones using primary colors.) […

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Cardboard Paintings: Exploring Primary Colors

May 21, 2014 by Barbara Rucci 6 Comments

This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Last week I made some cardboard canvases for my 3-yr old class. They were totally digging the format and each of them painted two or three or more paintings. I cut some pieces big, and some small. I primed some with a light gray paint,…

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