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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A beautiful way to display artwork - Summer Art Class

For Summer Art Class this year I had 17 kids choose their favorite watercolor/oil pastel drawing for display. Many of their artwork will be posted throughout the summer! They are so creative! I had such fun kids to teach. Here's how we "framed" their artwork...

Materials Needed:

• artwork
• pre-stretched canvas
• Mod Podge
• brush
• plastic wrap
• heavy book 

• Each of them designed and painted with acrylic the edges of a pre-stretched canvas, the canvas just a few inches larger than their painting.  

• I adhered their artwork to the canvas by brushing Mod Podge on the back side of the watercolor (sometimes Mod Podge can make watercolor bleed, so try not to get any on the artwork).

• Place plastic wrap over the artwork and place a heavy book on top so that the artwork will dry flat to the canvas! 

Enjoy displaying their artwork or yours!

DIY Stained Glass with TISSUE PAPER - 2nd Grade project

I love summer! Yeah, so... it is now over a month since my kids' school is out and I am finally posting this gorgeous window art project that the 2nd-graders created! Frank Lloyd Wright is our inspiration for this stained glass project -but for the final project, you can see that they used their own creativity, since they are not familiar with his work. Although his works are real glass, ours are made of brilliantly colored tissue paper. This is an easy project for any age.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• various colors of tissue paper 
• black permanent marker
• self-sealing laminating sheets

• Collaborative Window Art: I had the kids get into groups of 3-4 kids and work on one sheet together.

• First they drew onto paper with pencil their shape composition, tracing shapes or creating their own.

• Next they placed desired color of tissue paper over their pencil composition, traced the shapes and cut them out.

• I used self-sealing laminating sheets (3M Scotch Self-Sealing Laminating Pouches - Laminating Machines ) to place the original pencil composition under to use for placement, and then just place the cut out tissue paper shapes on the sticky side.

• After all the shapes are placed, seal the sheet carefully, and use a permanent marker to outline and make other designs! 

We punched holes each sheet and linked them altogether for one large stained glass window!

(You can hang them up in your window individually with tape or hole punch and hang with mini suction cup.)

They were so excited to see them attached altogether! 

As you can see, we have extra window space, so we made additional stained glass sheets(not shown).

NOW GO MAKE YOUR OWN!

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