Animals! Oil Pastel & Watercolor (dividing into shapes) - Summer Art Class

In this art project/exercise the kids drew their favorite "animal" and then divided it up into shapes and the background too if they wanted. You can see the different interpretations of the assignment! Different ages, different perspectives! Each one of them are completely different. Some used many colors to divide into shapes and others just one or two...

See our other watercolor and oil pastel projects here: "Oil Pastels with Watercolors (doodle shapes)!- Summer Art Class"

• First they did a pencil drawing on water color paper.
• Then they traced their drawing with a variety of oil pastels.
• Last they water colored inside the shapes to make the colors pop!

(ages 6-10 years) 

Oil pastels generally repel water colors - you can see it in the water bubbles. 

ArtPalooza week- day 3 - TREE BRANCH & BIRD Hanging Mobile (Tutorial)

The Sparkly-Funky Hanging Bird Mobile

by "K"

This is one of my favorite projects that my fun young art student K. (14 years old) has created. We start with initial project ideas, and then she just explodes with additional creative ideas...


Tutorial : Here is how she did it...

Making the birds (squawk!) :

• water color
• water color paper
• pencil (for drawing birds/objects)
• felt tip pen (outlining)
• glitter paper (adhere to make double sided shapes for birds)
• 527 glue (adhere glitter paper together & birds onto glitter paper)
• X-Acto knife (cut out birds and glue onto glitter paper to silhouette)
• (optional) clear adhesive/contact paper (protect bird drawings)

Making the twisty wire branch thingy : 

• wire
• pliers (to help with twisting)
• (optional) spray paint (silver, gold, black, brown-sometimes the wire isn't that pretty)
• green glitter paper (for leaves)
• scissors
• 527 glue
• string/thread (attaching birds to branch & branch to ceiling)
• thumb tacks (hang from ceiling)

Start by forming your base length and thickness of desired branch and then twist around it and create loops and get creative! 

(Sorry, I don't know the thickness of the wire, it was extra I had from another project. Any sturdy wire will work. You can see from the photos how thick ours is.) 

K. is adhering the glitter paper leaves to wire with 527 glue 

(hot glue just doesn't cut it)

Add string for hanging!

  

hanging with tacks...

Meet the BIRDS!...

Isn't she amazing? Love the birds!