Fall art grade three

This is just the perfect type of lesson: easy, technique rich and beautiful. To create this project, give each student a piece of watercolor paper

This week, 2nd grade started their Fall reflection paintings. These were created in just a few steps. This project was inspired by, Lauralee Chambers . You can check her work out on Instagram, if you click on her name. Here's how we created ours. First draw out "Y" trees on a folded piece of 90lb paper, with a brown oil pastel. My example got a little wrinkled and dirty this week! Then, add paint! We used tempera cakes! These are our favorites!! The colors are so bright and vibrant! (amazon…

Ok, this is a project that I have been waiting AN ENTIRE YEAR to do! I saw it on my blog roll via Painted Paper while I was in the middle ...

This birch tree painting for kids is a fun and easy fall art project. Kids will use a watercolor resist technique and gorgeous autumn colors. Easy to follow tutorial.

Third grade learned a few tricks about painting and space in this vibrant fall landscape. We started with black and white, then added red and yellow paint - we painted on construction paper rather than white to bump up the color effect. We used our leftover paint to make some painted scraps, which we used to cut and glue our collage pumpkins and little house in the background. Thanks to Painted Paper Art for the inspiration.

It has been a few years since I've done this project and I forgot how much I enjoy it and similarly the kids did as well. We discussed silhouettes and a variety of color schemes before my kids figured out a way to create a colorful background for themselves that was just right. The trickiest part of this lesson is the x-acto knife safety training which was needed to cut the intricate negative spaces out from the black construction paper. Oil pastels were used to create a "hypercolor" effect…

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Drawing perspective is not always easy. The idea is to recognize that as a tree grows tall, it narrows. With some oil pastels, some paint and a bit of black

Grade 4-6 students made these lovely falling leaves watercolour paintings using liquid watercolours. I was inspired by THIS post on ...