Needed: watercolor paper
watercolor paint
sponge
drinking straw
eye-dropper
Above Art by: Kobe Use a sponge to paint your chosen background color
and let dry
(we taped the edges to a newspaperto keep flat)
using your eye-dropper,
drip watercolor along the bottom of your paper
using your eye-dropper, drip watercolor along the bottom of your paper
While the paint is still wet,
watch your trees grow and branch out
watch your trees grow and branch out
by blowing through your drinking straw
Art by:Meg
Art by:MayaWe saw this art project in
My Nature Craft Book, by Cheryl Owen
7 comments:
The effect is really cool!
This sounds like the perfect project for our afternoon ;)
We did these the other day, too... but not with water colour.
I think I'll give that a try.
We used black tempera, watered down, on purple paper, but the paint faded to an eerie smokey green.
I couldn't decide if they were okay, or not.
Guess we'll try again. :)
the straw we used made the loudest whistle! which of course they loved :D
we'd love to see your spooky trees too!
These are beautiful, Shona, and I see your little naturalists are artists in their own right, as is their wonderful mother.
Happy day. Peace out! XO
These are nice! We'll have to give this technique a try. :)
i love these. we have some we did a few years ago that i still hang around halloween. xo
We are going to try this... looks like great fun!
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