Finished the first session of Fall art classes.....almost time to move on to Halloween!

To wrap up this session of art classes, we finished our studies on leaf prints and then moved on to Autumn poetry paintings.......there are so many ways to make prints....we combined wet paint on dry paper, dry paint on wet paper and wet paint on dry paper and finished these by using the leaves a s a stencil to paint over and around....I LOVE the way these came out!

 painting the back of the leaves with thick tube water color paint- 

thank goodness for drop cloth table covers :D

Then finishing it off with a nice background color!

Here they are completed:

And here are the tops of their Autumn poetry paintings- the focus here was on the colors of Fall.....

For the bottom of their leaf poem paintings, they chose their favorite print techniques for the big finish!

 Two students chose water color resist with oil pastel leaf transfers- 

they colored the back of the leaf, then RUBBED it onto the paper.....

then painted over with liquid water colors

 

 And the last student chose to do more  of a drawing technique- first the outline of the leaf with veins drawn in and then paint- sorry it doesn't show up very well!

So that wraps up our Fall session of classes- next, we'll be doing Halloween; one of my favorites!!!
Stephanie