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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Nutcracker Watercolour Paintings Art


My Grade 4-6 class are finishing up these adorably festive nutcracker watercolour paintings.

They had a choice to fold the paper and draw half of it and then trace it on the window to make it symmetrical OR to freehand the whole things.
We used the fantastic handouts from Art Projects for Kids to help with proportions. 




Then they outlines everything using a black prismacolor pencil.
Then, they had the choice of watercolours, markers or pencil crayons to colour their nutcracker. 95% chose watercolours. 





Once dry, they were carefully cut out. 


While their nutcrackers were drying, they painted 
white diagonal lines with tempera onto 12 x 16" red construction paper.


And they also painted snow on a small sheet of blue paper.




They glued their nutcracker onto the 'snow' paper, then onto the candy cane paper for a border. 



Here are some of the finished artworks:











 

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