Come walk in our Winter Woodland Forests

Imagine your own Winter Wonderland Forest...

They did.

This art project was awesome! I found a few crayon resist art images on Pinterest (with no links to any websites-sorry, no references). With a few requirements of trees and branches, I let the students be creative. Here is what they came up with:

Crayon & Watercolor Resist Art Project

 Materials Needed: 

• white or light blue paper
• white crayon and brown crayon (for branches)
• other crayon colors (for cabin or animals if desired)
• watercolors & brush (for trees, sky and ground)

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• They had the choice of using white paper(with brown branches) or light blue paper(with white branches). 
• All they needed to do is make sure their trees and ground has plenty of white crayon snow to create a colorful WINTER WONDERLAND! I love these!

Two clear examples of WHITE and LIGHT BLUE paper:

Crayon on White paper

Crayon on Light Blue paper

Wouldn't you love to walk in their Winter Forests!

oil pastels with watercolors (doodle shapes)! - Summer Art Class

I wanted the kids to have a fun experience and be comfortable with oil pastels and watercolors together. The two mediums are absolutely lovely as a pair! 

I challenged the kids (ages 5-10 years old) to just "doodle" and makes shapes touch and lines cross over each other (or maybe you could say...  "nonobjective art!").  

A lot of them had a hard time just doodling, they wanted to "draw" detail, but the end result is gorgeous. Most of them chose their "doodle art" for their final project to "frame on canvas"--> (A Beautiful Way to Display Artwork post).

Also, see our other oil pastel & water color project from our 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!

 They are just amazing!

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