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Thursday, December 6, 2018

1st grade Snowy Penguins


This week, we're finishing up day 1 of our precious lil penguins! I found this beautiful idea on Mary Making's blog!  This project incorporates watercolor painting, drawing, value, and oil pastels. 
Here's how we created ours! 
Materials:


Day 1: Paint background and draw penguin! Before I gave them 90lb paper, I demonstrated how to turn their paper vertical, draw a line across, and use the wet on wet watercolor technique to paint the sky. They love how the colors spread because of the wet background. I tell them to wet their paper all the way down to their ground line, so the ground will stay white. After they finish painting, I go around and sprinkle salt on their paintings to create a beautiful, snowy affect! 

After the class is done with their backgrounds, we wipe off our area, and get a new piece of paper to draw their penguins. We draw them with pencil and trace with a black pastel. 
That's about all we accomplished in one day! 

Here's some examples from one of my 1st grade classes!






Day 2: We'll add the black oil pastel, cut out our penguins and glue them to our background!
















Mrs. Ross' class did a fabulous job!!