The story "Sky Tree" by Thomas Locker is about a turtle that lays eggs beneath a tree. The pictures in the story are painted by the author, and as Grace remarked, "the painting of the tree and the different seasons seem real". Each day, the tree changes and so does the sky behind it. The beautiful thing about this tree is that the changes represent the passage of time in nature. For art today, we used watercolours to create the sky. The children chose to use the following techniques: wet on wet, dry brush and graded wash. The children noticed that in some scenes, the colour lightens towards the bottom of the page. Graded was is the technique that helps create that look. The brush needs to be loaded with clean water and the strokes need to be more gentle towards the bottom.
Next week, the children will each paint a tree and write a poem about the season they picked and what their paintings expresses.
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