Sunday, November 20, 2016

November 2016 - Fall Leaves

Kindergarten and 1st Grade

Project Title: 🍁🍂🍁  Fall Leaves  🍁🍂🍁


Description:
  • "Frottage" is a French word which means "to rub".  K-1 artists chose a variety of fall leaves that had been collected to create a fall motif.  Warm or cold colors were selected to complete our backgrounds using the water color resist technique
Examples of art using frottage:






Vocabulary: 
  • Frottage
  • veins
  • texture
  • hot/warm colors
  • cold colors
  • resist

Resources:


  • Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf  by Lois Ehlert

Materials:
  • assorted fall leaves
  • oil pastels
  • watercolor paints

Examples of Student Artwork: