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Learning from Masters is always a favourite art lesson for me. I had seen 'Tigers in the jungle' on Pinterest and our upcoming Independence Day was just the right reason to give it a try. The regal tiger is India's National animal. So, I thought to myself, how perfect is this? We could learn about the French artist Henri Rousseau, look at his painting, 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm' and also paint a beautiful tiger.
Learning from Masters is always a favourite art lesson for me. I had seen 'Tigers in the jungle' on Pinterest and our upcoming Independence Day was just the right reason to give it a try. The regal tiger is India's National animal. So, I thought to myself, how perfect is this? We could learn about the French artist Henri Rousseau, look at his painting, 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm' and also paint a beautiful tiger.
I must also add that tigers are close to my heart, I was very fortunate, while on a tiger safari to the Bhandavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh, to have seen tigers really up and close. Their eyes have a penetrating gaze and even before you have spotted them amongst the tall elephant grass, they have seen you and are watching you! Nothing like the tiger!
Back to our lesson. This is suitable for ages 6 and up. Before we began our zoom lesson, we looked the painting by Henri Rousseau, 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm', as also self-portrait of his.
Back to our lesson. This is suitable for ages 6 and up. Before we began our zoom lesson, we looked the painting by Henri Rousseau, 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm', as also self-portrait of his.
This art lesson was done in few easy steps.
The art materials you will need are:
Oil pastels and watercolours.
1. Begin with drawing a round shape for your tiger's face then his body with a tail by one side.
2. Next draw various plants, in the foreground, here one can explain, what is a foreground, middle ground and background. I encouraged the young artists to draw their plants going over the tiger.
3. Contour the plants with a green oil pastel and the veins of the leaves in bright oil pastels of different hues.
4. At this point, the tiger begins to look as if he is truly gazing at us from behind the leafy jungle! The parts of his face you wish to leave white, use a white oil pastel, for the rest of his face and body use black oil pastels. Do the stripes as well.
5. Time to paint the tiger, I used orange and orange mixed with chrome yellow to show two values for the tiger.
6. Paint in your leaves with the different greens in your watercolour set, mix and blend for different values.
7. I invited the young artists to think about which colour they'd like to paint their background, is the sun shining through the trees? Is it dark and cool in the forest?
The results were superb! A tropical safari!
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