Painted Pumpkins

What's the first color that comes to mind when someone says Pumpkin? Orange and maybe green?
We used mixed watercolors in different shades of orange and green to paint in our pumpkins and oil pastels to color in our suns, moons, clouds and stars. Next week we will finish up the Pumpkins by painting in the Background.

Pumpkin Contour Line Drawings

Pumpkins Pumpkins everywhere!
We used our Artist eyes to really look at a Pumpkin and talked about what kind of Lines and Shapes we would use to draw them. We used pencils to draw the Outline & Contour lines of at least 3 pumpkins and added a Horizon line to ground them. We traced over the pencil lines with permanent marker so that the lines won't get lost next week when we add color to our pumpkins.

 

How do you know it is a pumpkin not an apple? Add Contour Lines.

Leaf Rubbings

 

To go along with our Fall tree theme we did some leaf rubbings this week with real leaves and a few leaf texture plates.

This gave others time to finish up their Creative Color Trees.

Finished Creative Color Trees

We practiced mixing the Secondary colors to paint the leaves on our trees. We talked about how when the trees are full of leaves they look like a big bush of color but when the leaves start falling you can start to see individual leaves. They came out so bright and colorful here are a few finished by the kindergarteners.