Thursday, November 29, 2007

You can make your family famous, too!

My sister will soon be famous because of the holiday card I made for her, featuring HER! It's so easy and anyone can do it--yes, even you! First, go through all those old winter pictures of your family and find one that clearly shows everyone's face. Go to a copy machine and copy that picture. (You may want to make a few copies so you can experiment.) When you copy a color picture on a black and white copier, the brightness of the snow can make the faces and clothing too dark. No worries, just ask the librarian for help to lighten up your picture. However, when you do that, you may lose the shadows in the snow. Again, no worries, because you are an artist and can use a pencil to shadow it back in. (If I can do it, anyone can!) Just look really carefully at the shadows and you'll do fine. Then think back. Hmmm, was it so cold that everyone had pink cheeks? Well, find those old coloring pencils and lightly give everyone pink cheeks! Hmm, did the snow look so white it was almost blue? Well, whip out those coloring pencils and lightly shade in blue in the snow shadows! Looks great, huh! Now glue that copy onto some construction paper, add some stickers or even copy some music and glue that on, too! Have fun and make your family famous!

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