Crazy Leaf Art

Yesterday was Art!  We worked on a multi-step and multi media art project, our Crazy Leaves!

To begin with we chose the type of leaf we wanted to draw, then drew it diagonally so that it took up the majority of our piece of paper.  We also drew in the veins of the leaf.  Once we had done that we used a black Sharpie to go over our pencil lines, outline the leaf and veins.  The next step was to use crayons to create patterns in the spaces of the leaf.  These are the spaces created between the edge of the leaf and the veins.  We also used crayons to trace around the leaf three times.  Once we were finished this, it was time to paint!  We used watercolours as crayons would resist them.  We talked about how we wanted our paint to be really wet so that the colours would all blend together.  This is working towards a technique called "wet on wet" where you "paint" the paper with water first then add the paint.  It creates a very neat effect.

Here are some of our finished projects.