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Birch Trees
1st Grade Art ProjectArt Enrichment ProgramSlide2
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Lesson Overview
Lesson: Masking/Perspective/Color/ShadowName: Birch Trees
Time
: 60 minutes
Medium: Watercolor
Volunteers
: Recommend 5 to
help
Students
will use masking tape and watercolors to create a beautiful picture of birch tree trunks. Using a small sea sponge, they can add bushes and/or use salt to create a lacy effect.
Vocabulary: Masking, Perspective, Depth
Print Suggestions: 227, Gustav Klimt: The Forest
Additional Resource
:
Birches, by Robert Frost (great pictures, although poem too advanced for this age)
book
is stored with
lessonsSlide4
Materials Needed
WatercolorsWatercolor Paper (9x12)
painting
masking tape
(
1 ½ in.
blue)
Volunteers can rip in half during lesson prep
Paintbrushes (large and small
)
Sea Sponges (damp but not soaking wet
)
Cups for
water for
rinsing brushes
Table
salt (not kosher),
optionalSlide5
Forest by G
ustav Klimt“When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them
.”
Birches
Poem by
Robert
FrostSlide6
Today’s Project
Birch tree barkMaskingWatercolor backgroundSalt texture Slide7
Birch Tree Bark Slide8
Step 1- How to make a maskSlide9
Step 2- Trees in Perspective
Close trees = biggerFarther away trees = smaller Slide10
Step 3- Painting the Land
Slide11
Step 3- Painting the Sky
After the bottom half is painted, students should move to the top half and paint colors depending upon the time of day they have selected (oranges and reds for sunset, for example).Slide12
Step 4- Salt the skySlide13
Step 5- Peeling up the maskSlide14
Step 6- Painting the shadows & highlights
Slide15
Step 7- Sponge in shrubs