We spent the last two weeks in class working on self portraits. I purchased self standing mirrors so that each student could observe themselves while drawing. This was the first time we have used mirrors to do self portraits. I could really see the difference. We drew our portraits in black crayon and then painted […]
For the last couple of weeks we have been learning about the German artist, Franz Marc. We looked at several of Marc’s famous blue horses and read the book, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle. Carle uses painted paper in his illustrations, so we began this project by creating our own […]
I have tried this project at home using different mediums and was never quite happy with it. I finally decided to try it with liquid watercolor and oil pastels and knew this was going to be a winner. Controlling liquid watercolor with all the details was a challenge, but the oil pastel really helped. We […]
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