For the first project of this last session of the year, we learned about Henri Rousseau. Rousseau’s story is one of dedication and perseverance. He didn’t begin to paint until later in life and never had a lesson. The art world in Paris literally laughed at him year after year, but he kept painting. Towards […]
After our study of Hokusai’s “The Wave off Kanazawa”, we did fish printing. In this project we drew fish on styrofoam sheets. We then cut the fish out, rolled on ink with brayers and printed them. Many students doubted they could draw the fish, but they all did and did a fabulous job! This is […]
The last project for “Crawl, Wiggle, Fly” was a bee print. We first traced a hexagon template to make a honeycomb background. Then we painted the background using pan watercolor. We used foam sheets and sticky foam sheets to create the bee printing plates. I provided templates for the body parts for those that wanted […]
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