Spring is here and many of our favorite birds are back for the warmer weather! Diane Zubrick did an art project with all her students using pictures from several bird calendars.
To make it easy, Diane traced an outline of the birds on tracing paper. Her students then used carbon paper under the tracing paper and transferred the line drawing to the watercolor paper.
The line was drawn over with black Sharpie. The students used liquid watercolors to finish the painting. The bird artwork turned out all different and colorful.
Many artists do work from photos or a combination of photographs to design a picture. Tracing the bird gave Diane's students a good starting point for a beautiful painting!
I really like this. I have a small art gathering in my studio from time to time and wanted to find something simple to do in one evening.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.