Sunset Painting - Blending with paint

This was a simple sunset art lesson - a practice for blending colors in paint.

What we need:

Art block
poster colors

How we did:

Kids first draw the outline of whatever monument they wanted the sunset silhouette to be.

Only outline is enough, no details since it is all going to be black.

Now we start painting straightaway.

Start painting with the lightest color - yellow from the bottom of the page not much care if it went inside the sketching, till you reach one third of the page width.
Now Start the second color - orange. Start painting while the yellow is till wet, slowly blending the edges of the yellow into the orange. continue orange till three forth of the page and then switch to the last color red. Blend in the same way.
You can also blend the edges of two colors later with just water in the brush

Last step is to color in the foreground silhouette in all black, after the backdrop if totally dry.

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Scream Art

The Scream - Edward Munch

When I was looking for a unique artist appreciation lesson, (I had decided to do the spooky
 'The scream' painting of Artist Edward Munch), I stumbled upon this picture.


 And I immediately knew I had to try this.
So much for the entertainment of the kids - this lesson proved to be a crowd pleaser at all times.

Kids will  absolutely love it.

What you need:

Art block
Liquid acrylics/poster colors/oil pastels
black marker
Straw

How to do:

Kids were told to draw a circle/oval for the face starting from the center of the paper down to the bottom.
The face was developed according to their taste. Some chose selfies while others went for creepy boys and clowns even.
The bust was done.
Everything was outlined with a sharpie as we always do with our projects.
Colored in with bright colors since we also wanted this to be more whimsical in nature than spooky.
Now comes the fun part - Each kid used a straw to dab the diluted colors and blow it on the paper starting from the head to the top of the page. The more you blow the more streaks. Kids had fun experimenting moving the paper, making branches and mixing colors while blowing.
At the end of session - we had a messy classroom full of grinning kids.

What we learned:

Before moving on to the project we had a visual of Edward Munch's The scream painting and discussed on his choice of colors and strokes. How the directional strokes and choice of colors can be manipulated to create mood.
How to create expressions in face.

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