Winter Snowmen Paintings

In Sights and Sounds of the Seasons we celebrated the winter snow by building our own indoor snowmen.  Rather than drawing and painting a traditional 3 ball snowman, we took on the challenge of painting closeup snowman in a profile view. 

 First:  The snowman was drawn with black oil pastels making sure it was cropped of either side of the blue paper.  Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Buttons, and Arms came next.  Students designed their own hats and scarves to add to their snowmen. 

Second: Use temperas to paint everything on the snowman that wasn't white (hats, eyes, scarves....Carrots!) 

Third: Next white painted was added to the snowman.  Now it's time to let it snow by painting fluffy snowflakes.    

Last : We retraced our black lines to ensure our snowmans don't get lost in the winter blizzard.

Enjoy!

 

               Chloe                                  Aidan

  Eddie                                       Gaia

       Jack                                     Jake

      Maddy                                   Luke

       Meredith                            Meghan

    Victoria                                 Nicholas

Yula

Chinese Landscape Paintings

In Model Masters we traveled to the Far East and learned about the serenity of Chinese and Japanese Landscape paintings.  We looked at several reproductions of Asian landscapes and noted how they were simplified in terms of detail and colors.  These landscapes instead captured a mood and the emphasis was on expressive brushstrokes. 

We used Sumi-e rice paper to carefully sketch our landscapes.  I discussed how this paper is very delicate and required quick brushstrokes.  If you try to work an area to much when painting, the paper will dissolve and you'll be left with a hole!  After painting our landscapes with watercolors, we added Chinese symbols that described the mood of our paintings with black India Ink.  To sign our work, we made a small square stamp out of foam printing plates and used red ink.

Andrew

Gaia

Heather S.

Jake

Josh

Meghan

Nicholas

Stephan

Victoria

Yula

Miss Vanessa