Big thanks to Holly V. at Lines Dots & Doodles for posting this fun Folk Art lesson. I had never seen Karla Gerard's artwork before, and it's wonderful inspiration!These were done by 5th graders and we took 2 class periods to do these paintings. First we studied the patterns and variety in Karla Gerard's examples that I put on the board.
Then student's drew a rough draft version of their landscape on scratch paper. Then a real version on construction paper. Next every line was traced with oil pastels.
Next meeting, the kids painted their pictures with watercolors.
I love these results. I'm going to try it with my three year old tomorrow.
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