Pastel Resist Butterflies

Here is another pastel resist project. I love these resists....so much you can find a fish one here and a Madonna one here.

Grade 1 is working on their Butterfly unit right now they even have several chrysalis in the classroom that they are patiently watching.

Materials Required:

white paper

pastels

tempera paint

paintbrush

scissors

pipecleaner for antennae

I talked to the kids first about designing their butterflies. We wanted butterflies with some pattern on them like a Monarch..not one that was a solid color.

The drew out their design in pencil first and then using pastel colored in the butterfly.

We then took their finished drawing and crumpled it into a ball like we were throwing it out ( the kids always love this part ).

You now need to uncrumple it and smooth it flat.

Using some watery tempera we painted over the whole design..the pastel resists the paint making a cool "beading up" pattern on the butterfly.

We put them aside to dry....we were cutting ours out but if you don't care to make sure you paint the background fully.

When they are dry you can cut them out. We taped a pipecleaner to the back for the antennae

Terrific!

gail

Daily Painting

I was able to get some daily practice in today. The reference photo is a Monarch sitting on some flowers. The flowers and leaves are out of focus on the photo with the butterfly taking center stage.



















I fussed over the background longer than I should have, so much for being loose.




















When background was dry off with the custom sticker.


















I then focused on the butterfly. The painting is pretty tight due to the amount of detail in the wings. Oh well .... every time I practice I learn something. In this one I would of changed the background. I'll try that next time and make it larger 11x15 I think.



















5x7 140lb wc paper


See you next time..... I'm working on a good tutorial for kid friendly batik.


gail