Visual Art Tutorial Videos
Youth Development • Arts Education • Cultural Preservation • Community Building
Painting a cloud with 2 colors:
This video demonstrates how to build the basic structure of a cloud and blend with two colors. This video should be watched after watching the “Painting Basics” video.
Projecting a drawing on Tyvek paper and team painting a Pueo:
This video demonstrates how to a drawing can be projected onto a large (at least 4ʻ wide) Tyvek.
A pattern (criss-cross diamond shapes in 1st Teamʻs work) can be created and then simply filled in with different or complimentary colors. An alternate way of filling in is with a pattern or imagery of a scene (shown in 2nd teamʻs work with the image of a mauna and star constellation, Makali‘i).
Recorded from our Professional Development Summer 2019 Workshop with two teams of 8-10 teachers.
Painting on Tyvek Demo:
Created for our Utah & N. Dakota students for our Summer Program 2020, where they are painting 2×7 foot Tyvek material that will be connected with the mural at Kaimuki High School.
Check out this link that explains the mo‘olelo of this project and why we are painting maile.
Painting on Tyvek Demo #2:
Continuing demonstration of how Uncle Mike paints more details in the painted shapes after blocking out big shapes and changing the background color. For this project, our haumāna had the initiative to paint petroglyphs about their ohana and what was current with their lives in the Summer 2020.
Created for our Utah & N. Dakota students for our Summer Program 2020, where they are painting 2×7 foot Tyvek material that will be connected with the mural at Kaimuki High School.
Check out this link that explains the mo‘olelo of this project.
Cleaning Brushes with a Steel Brush:
This video demonstrates how to the additional use of a steel brush cleans the extra paint out of a brush.
- Always use a rag to wipe off the excessive paint from a brush first.
- Swoosh the brush in a bucket of clean or gray /dirty water.
- Get all the excess paint out of the brush with a bigger steel brush that can be found in any kitchen section of a store or Home Depot.
- Repeat the rinse of water and final wiping off with your rag.