Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Moonlit Giraffe Portraits


My kindergarten through 2nd graders looked at the illustrations by Guy Parker-Rees in the book Giraffes Can't Dance. They created their up-close giraffes using the wet on wet technique with liquid watercolors. Using all sides of their paper, they were encouraged to create a detailed jungle background of leaves, vines, flowers and a full moon in oil pastels. They could see how it resisted the blue watercolor that was then painted for the night sky. Last, they added stars with acrylic using the backs of their paint brushes.

 1st grade

 Kinder


 1st grade


Kinder

2 comments:

  1. Is the giraffe painted on a separate paper, cut, and glued onto the blue background? I can't tell but in the examples the edges of the giraffe are very clean.

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  2. Yes, it was done one sheet of watercolor paper. It’s helpful for the giraffes to dry first before painting the background so the colors won’t bleed together.

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