Sunset Beaches

Sunset Beaches: Watercolor – Crayon Resist

Sunset Beaches

Sunset Beaches: Watercolor – Crayon Resist

Van Gogh Sunflowers

Van Gogh Inspired - Crayon Resist and Watercolor

Lady Bugs

 

We used lady bugs to learn about overlapping and things going on and off the page. Students created this work with watercolor crayon resist and other water techniques.

Torn paper Owl

Torn paper Owl Collages

Underwater Scene

Underwater crayon/tempera resist

Grazing Bison

Grazing Bison

1) Create a simple background using tempera paint
2) Instruct the student on how to create a Bison using mainly circles and cylinders
3) Color the bison with crayons or oil pastels
4) Cut out the Bison and glue them to your landscape

Picasso Flowers

Picasso Flowers
1) Trace child's hand, open and thumb up
2) Add details like winkles, nails and jewelry
3) Draw 6 stems, above and below the hand
4) Use crayon to color the hand, stems and add a small circle to the top of the stem for the middle of the flower
5) Paint the flowers (I did one for each color of the rainbow) using watercolor paint

Close-Up Polar Bears

 

Close-Up Polar Bears
1) Create a colorful mountainous background with oil pastels
2) Using thick white tempera paint, paint a large upside-down "u" in the middle of your paper and paint it in
3) Add two smaller "u" for ears and paint them in
4) After the paint has dried use black crayon to draw in the nose, eyes and ears

  

Winter Self- Portrait

Winter Self- Portrait
1) Step-by-step draw a portrait with hat, scarf and coat in pencil
2) Outline in crayon
3) Color in, in crayon
4) Paint the background with watercolor paint in any color but the colors used while coloring

Self-Portrait Page: Art Book

Self-Portrait Page: Art Book

For more information please see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Imagination Page: Art Book

Imagination Page: Art Book

For more information please see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Texture Bugs Page: Art Book

Texture Bugs Page: Art Book

For more information please see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Warm & Cool Colors Page: Art Book

Warm & Cool Colors Page: Art Book

For more information please see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Primary Hands Page: Art Book

Primary Hands Page: Art Book

For more information please see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Art Book Cover

Here is the Kindergarten Art Book Cover!!

I love doing the Art Book with Kindergarten because it sets down the basics for the rest of their school art career. For more information see: http://www.kinderart.com/artbook/

Giant Color Mixing Bugs

Giant Color Mixing Bugs

It my Art book I have mini color mixing bugs but this one in made from an 9x12 paper and shows the student's what happens when all three colors are mixed. 

1) Fold at 9X12 paper in half

2) Place dote of all three primary colors inside on the fold

3) Squash the paper

4) Open the paper and let it dry

5) Cut out the bug and mount it to another paper

6) Add detail with crayon

I have used this in conjunction with Eric Carle's Hungary Caterpillar 

Rainbow Fish
1) Trace oval template for body
2) Draw tail, side fins, lips, scales, eye and other detail
3) Add seaweed and other background elements
4) Outline in sharpie
5) Color fish and seaweed in crayon
6) Paint water in blue watercolor

Simple Hand Tree
1) Trace the child's coloring it with marker.
2) Paint tempera paint around for land and sky
3) Add cut paper leaves
3) Detail to tree and bird with crayon