Vegetable Garden Art 🥕

 Hello 😊 

I had seen pictures of this beautiful vegetable garden art in Pinterest world and had really been wanting to try it out with the kids. Since we would be doing it via an online class, time would be limited and we kept it to drawing just three vegetables. One could add more which would make the picture that much more interesting.

Lessons from nature are amongst my favourite to do and this art lesson ticked all the boxes, plant drawings, plant life, gardening, all checked ✔️

We chatted about other vegetables which grow underground, I heard potato, garlic! and I told them some myself, ginger, turmeric, turnip, one can go on!

During the virtual class, I used a waterproof sketch pen to draw the vegetables as the kids need to see clearly in order to follow along.  Contouring is optional.

Vegetable Garden Art.

You will need, 

• paper

• pencil

• sketch pen (optional)

• oil pastels

• watercolours

• brushes

• small bowl for water

• tea towel or paper towel.

Draw a horizon line dividing your paper into two halves, the top half will be the sky, below will be the soil. 

Below the line, that is under the ground, first draw the carrot, add roots coming out from its tapering end, then its leaves, which are small in size.  Then draw the beetroot, which is mostlyamostly round and has larger leaves. Finally the onion bulb, with little roots coming out at the bottom and its stalk growing above the ground

Colouring~ I have used both crayons and watercolours, you could use either or both. 

 

There! Now our vegetable garden is complete  with yummy veggies. What I like about this lesson is that kids could follow along with little difficulty, and they were very happy while colouring it in. I was pretty stoked with the results, all their vegggie pictures were a complete delight. I'm so glad I did this with them !😊🥕🥔🌱

Let's take a look at our little artists' veggie gardens 😊🥕 

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Hope you enjoyed our version of this art lesson.

Have a good week and see you in another post 😊🌈

Lotus Flower in Oil Pastels.

Greetings! Today India celebrates its 74th Independence day, and I wanted to tie this in with an appropriate art lesson. This year I thought we could learn how to draw our National Flower, the Lotus which also happens to be one of my favourite flowers. This drawing is symmetrical and fairly easy to do and children ages 5 and upwards can do it with a little adult guidance.

You will need

• paper

• pencil and eraser

• oil pastels

Lotus Flower in Oil Pastels

1) Draw your Lotus nice and big, keeping the paper in a vertical position, I like to tell small kids that we're going to draw an upside down rainbow. Next, do the petal in the centre, then the sides, keep drawing in more petals, lastly add, two more growing side-ways.

For the stem, draw two straight lines, going from the bottom of the Lotus, right down to edge of the paper. To make the large leaf, draw two side-ways "rainbow" lines on either sides of the lotus stalk. For its veins, draw what I call little "birds" along the inside of the leaf. Then imagine a centre for your leaf and draw lines extending from your "birds" to the centre. 

2) Contour your drawing with oil pastels, red for the Lotus, dark green for the stalk and stem, dark blue for water. Colour your lotus using medium pressure. I've made mine pink with red veins.

Tada! and we are done, the Lotus is a beautiful flower to draw anytime of the year, not just come Independence Day. 😊🇮🇳🕊️

Here are some Lotuses by our little artists, I have finally embraced online classes, I kept putting it off till recently, but now I look forward to our virtual art room. 😊

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Have a great weekend, stay safe and see you in another post.

~ Sabrina.

Coconut tree in resist - watercolour.

Greetings! 

Who doesn't love the sight of coconut trees swaying by a sandy beach? I know I do. Let's take a trip to the tropics and paint a beautiful Coconut tree in resist watercolour!

Fun-fact, did you know, every part of the coconut tree is useful  to humans? In India it also called, 'Kalpa-vriksha' or wish-fulfilling tree. The coconut gives us oil, the exterior of the nut gives us coir, from which we can make strong rope, its fronds can be used to make a thatched roof and so on. Now that we know a little about this giving tree let's begin our art project!

Coconut tree in watercolour resist.

You will need

• Paper ~ an absorbent and thick paper is always good for watercolours. I'm using a half-imperial or A5 size sheet.

• Pencil to draw

• Oil pastels or if you have wax crayons that's ok too

• Watercolour cake box or tubes

• Brush, a no.6 or 7 will do.

•Bowls, I always suggest two, one for cleaning the brush, one for mixing paint.

• small cloth or paper towel for wiping brushes and mopping spills and messes made by little hands.

1) Draw your Coconut tree big enough to cover most of your paper.

2) Tracing your drawing in oil pastels~ Trace with colourful oil pastels  or  use only white. This art lesson is a resist method, meaning, when we  paint it will not adhere to the crayon lines, thus  creating a very interesting effect!

3) Painting ~

• Wet your brush, using only water, brush the entire surface of the paper, taking care not to make it soggy.

• Begining with the fronds of the tree, paint with watercolours. Since the paper is wet, the colours will spread easily and bleed into each other. This method is called wet into wet.

• I've used light and dark green in the fronds, magenta for the evening sky, and a purple, cobalt and cerulean for the water, browns with a bit of crimson for tree trunk, earth and of course yellow for the sun

Allow your paper to dry and voilà, your Coconut tree in watercolour resist is done! 

Time to take a look at this week's little artists ☺️ 

Hope this lesson is helpful especially to anyone looking for art activities to do at home during this pandemic or for your virtual classroom.  Be safe and well, and do check out my other art lessons, please say hello in the comments, or email me, if you have any requests. I am always thinking of what to teach next and ideas are always welcome. 

See you in another post!

~Sabrina.