Painting Again

Finally sat down to paint. This piece I started sometime ago with cut paper squares from decorative paper. Painted the background and added shading with markers.

This week I added the muted letter stencil and the bird.

 

Started to lay out some of the things I want to add for interest and depth.

1st Grade Roosters

 I started class with a step by step of how to draw a rooster. Once students had a good drawing they outlined everything with oil pastels. They used liquid watercolors to add the bright colors. I saw the same idea on another blog but cannot remember which one.  Do you ever do that?  I look at 10-20 blogs for ideas and then can't remember where the one is that stuck in my head.

Our backgrounds were made from black construction paper and tempera paints. Students could use up to 3 colors for this and were asked to create a pattern.  

Students cut out their roosters and glued them down to be framed by their patterned border.

Kindergarten Birds

Spring!!  Have done birds with every grade in the elementary school. For kindergarten we looked at Eric Carle's books and had fun painting papers the first week. I set up a color station at each table the the children rotated around the room to paint with each color.

I got this idea from Painted Paper.  

The following week I had templates for the children to trace and cut out the parts of the birds.  I had envelopes with their names on them to store all the parts. They created their bird houses using construction paper, rainbow twistables and a strip of painted paper.

The third week we glued it all together. I love these projects and they really brighten up our school hallways. Definitely going to repeat this next year.