{"id":814,"date":"2021-02-15T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=814"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:22:07","slug":"galaxy-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/02\/15\/galaxy-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. The planet we live on, Earth is part of a solar system in the Milky Way galaxy. When you look up into the night sky, the stars you are looking at are all part of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond our galaxy, there are many more galaxies that we cannot see with the naked eye. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/galaxy\/en\/\">NASA<\/a>, some scientists think there could be as many as\u00a0one hundred billion\u00a0galaxies in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Use your imagination and a few simple supplies to make a painting of the galaxy. Download our free printable art project and template below to get started!<\/p>\n<h2>SUPPLIES:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>White acrylic paint<\/li>\n<li>Watercolors<\/li>\n<li>Paintbrush<\/li>\n<li>Coarse salt<\/li>\n<li>Watercolor paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>INSTRUCTIONS<\/h2>\n<p>STEP 1: Drip several colors of watercolor paint onto watercolor art paper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-1.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>STEP 2: Spread the paint around with a large paintbrush. Repeat with more drips.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-810 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-2.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>STEP 3: After the last set of drips, add a handful of course salt to the paint puddles and let dry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-811 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-3.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>STEP 4: Now splatter a few drips of white paint on top of your<br \/>\n\u2018galaxy\u2019 to add stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-812 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-4-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-4-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/02\/Bild-4.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 85vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. The planet we live on, Earth is part of a solar system in the Milky Way galaxy. When you look up into the night sky, the stars you are looking at are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/02\/15\/galaxy-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dGalaxy Painting\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}