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use the crayons to create these trees in your sketchbook

project: fall trees

double load painting and analogous colors

Australian Artist, Anna Blatman has been a professional artist since 1993. She loves to paint flowers, landscapes, birds and trees and many of her paintings are hung on walls around the world. Her simple shapes and bold colors trigger happy emotions and feelings of life.

What colors would you use to make these trees for the fall?

watercolor monsters

a layered approach to watercolors

opaque

transparent

ASTER

DAHLIA

CHRYSANTHEMUM

ZINNIA

blue-ish background

leaves

flowers

PROJECT: a giant dot of fruit

WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES FOR EACH FRUIT

PAPER PREP

GATHER FRUITS

DRAW THEN PAINT

TEACHER DIRECTED - WATERCOLORS

PROJECT: paper weaving

THE MIGHTY OIL PASTEL

The strips do not need to be even. Variation in thickness actually makes the final weaving more interesting.

Using a black oil pastel, outline the edges of each strip.

warp

Choose one color group and begin laying the strips vertically on the black background.
Adjust spacing using an extra strip horizontally as a guide
Once happy with the composition, glue only the bottom ends of the vertical strips

weft

Take your second color group and arrange the strips horizontally in the color order you like.
start at the bottom
Weave over, under, over, under through the vertical strips
For the next strip, start the opposite way (under, over)
Continue alternating as you move up the page