Pumpkin and Gourd Still Life Watercolor Painting

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Date: 2012-11-06 Author: Michelle East Categories: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, Art History Lessons, Art Lessons, Drawing Lessons, Elementary Art, Mixed Media Lessons, Painting Lessons, Perspective/Space Lessons, Tempera Painting, Watercolor Lessons, Watercolor Resist Tags: 2nd grade art, 3rd grade art, 4th grade art, art class for kids, art history lesson, art lesson, art lessons for children, art lessons for kids, art projects children, art schools for kids, artist painting supplies, create illusion of depth, elementary art, for elementary, How to Draw Pumpkins, indian corn, kids art class art with painting, kids art lessons, mixed media, overlapping, overlapping to create depth, painting art projects for kids, painting lesson, paul cezanne, pumpkin still life, pumpkins, Space in art, teacher art projects for kids, teaching art to kids, watercolor painting lesson, watercolor still life

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Pumpkin and Gourd Still Life Watercolor Painting.

Objectives: Students will learn what a still life is and how artists use overlapping to create the illusion of depth (3D space) in a flat 2D piece of art. Learn about the artist Paul Cezanne and how he used overlapping in his paintings to create a feeling of depth.

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Supplies: Oil pastels, watercolors, watercolor paper or tagboard/card stock

Instructions:

Draw composition in pencil first.
Use a yellow oil pastel to outline all the lines. Only do the outside lines on the corn. Use black to draw the table line.
Use yellow, orange, black & white oil pastels to fill in some of the kernels on the corn (about 6-0 of each color).
Paint with watercolors. I showed them how to paint 3D looking pumpkins with yellow first then orange around the lines & let the colors bleed together.