2nd Grade Silhouette Project

   This silhouette project was a hit with the 2nd grade, and taught us about many new art processes! We started out the project by learning how to do a watercolor wash. Students painted their whole page with water first, and then chose any three colors they wanted for the background. After painting the water on their page, 2nd graders loved adding their three colors and watching the colors spread out and blend together on their paper.

   The next day we talked about negative and positive space, shadows, and silhouettes. With Halloween coming up students were excited to incorporate some of their own spooky ideas to their silhouettes. We drew out our silhouette scene in pencil first, and then finished it up by filling it in with black markers.

I think they all turned out great with some very creative touches!
Here area few finished examples:

I love the colors this student chose!

Look at that creative haunted house and the spooky twisted tree!