1. A sheet of watercolor paper is filled with all the doodle shapes that students can think of. They can personalize their art by adding symbols of what they are interested in: musical instruments, sports equipment, etc. When the paper is really filled up, the lines are traced with a black Sharpie and small shapes are colored in heavily with crayons. The background is painted with watercolors. I opted to paint around the crayon so colors would stay bright.
2. A half-size piece of watercolor paper is used to draw the student’s self portrait. To steer the students away from making small heads, require that the top touch the top of the paper. The face is traced with a Sharpie and all but the skin is colored with crayons. Skin color is mixed and painted last. Let all art dry and press under heavy books overnight to flatten.
4. The head is carefully cut out with scissors. It is glued to the background with some small bits of foam core in between to make it look raised, or 3D.
5 comments:
Hi Kathy,
I love your new and improved website. Very easy to navigate. I love the Cat head pencil shading from yesterday.
xo
Mylien
P.S. when I was in the PDF Shop I was not able to navigate back to your blog using the tab "Return to Blog"
Thanks Mylien,
I'm glad the new layout is working for you. I did just fix my "Return tp Blog" link, and really appreciate the heads up about that. :)
Take care,
Kathy
Just wanted to say a big thank you for sharing your ideas on this blog! I tried this project with my daughter (almost 6 yo) today and was so impressed with the result. She's loving the experiments and can't wait for the next projects. I love the bits of info about the artists, too, and links. Thank you so much, without your help I wouldn't go past the "paint whatever you want" rut.
I was wondering how you mix skin tone from watercolor? Did you pre-mix or let the students do this? And are you using liquid watercolors to do this? If so, what's the color combination? I've tried mixing skin tones with watercolors in the past without much luck. Thanks!
Hi Sara,
That's a good question as I found that the new Crayola Watercolor Mixing Set works great for light pinky, orangy skin tones (there is a yellow, orange and magenta), and the regular Crayola trays that have brown are great when you need darker things. My kids enjoyed finding the combinations needed to match their coloring, so I think it's good practice for them.
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