December Art Blog 2017
Transitional Kindergarten: Snowflake prints TK students experimented creating snowflakes using a tissue paper bleeding technique. Students used cool colored tissue paper, torn or cut into thin strips. Students layered their tissue paper strips in a crisscross star design and used a brush with water to paint over their snowflakes. By washing over the tissue paper it sticks down and creates beautiful color bleeds and washes onto the background paper. To create an additional, layered effect, students used scratch foam to create a printing plate (stamp) of a snow flake. Students used brayers to roll blue printing ink onto their printing plates and printed their snowflakes onto their previously designed backgrounds. Kindergarten: Bird House Prints Kindergarten students were inspired by the thousands of bird houses Bill Larkin also know as "Crazy Bill" has built and is still continuing to build. He paints ...