Lesson 2 of 100 · Finger Painting

⭐ 30 XP🎨 Color Lab

Finger Print Animals

🎨Studio Brief #2

Use your fingertips as stamps to create animal shapes.

🎯 Your mission

Splash colors that don't usually hang out together.

⚡ The twist

Mix on the page, not on the palette.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Mixing red, yellow, and blue paint together makes mud — but mixing red, green, and blue light makes white.

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Artist Spotlight

🎨 Vincent van Gogh painted *Starry Night* from memory, in a hospital, at night.

Practice fingerprint stamping in this art lesson: finger print animals.

What You'll Learn

Use your fingertips as stamps to create animal shapes. A fingerprint becomes a body—add legs, tails, and faces with a thin marker.

Techniques You'll Practice

fingerprint stampingmark-makingdetail drawing

Materials Needed

Glue stickWashable markersCrayonsConstruction paper

Step-by-Step Guide

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Where you see this in real life

Every brand, every poster, every video game — color was picked on purpose.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find five shades of one color around your house.

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For the dinner table

“Why did you pick those colors? What feeling were you going for?”

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