Vocabulary Words: Warm Colors, Painterly, highlights, shadows

Materials: 12x18" blue paper, liquid tempera, brushes, water, glue, glitter, oil pastels

We began by looking at VanGogh paintings so students could see the painterly effect, as well as how sunflowers come in all warm colors. I then gave each student a "puddle" of red, yellow, and orange tempera and a paintbrush. Students painted flower shapes on their blue paper, dipping their brush into different colors and allowing the paint to remain unblended. The following class period I gave them brown and green tempera for the centers and stems. For a more realistic effect we added highlights and shadows to the stems and leaves with oil pastels. We then outlined our flowers with glue and sprinkled gold glitter. Very cool!

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