Scratch a Christmas ball

What do you need?

• drawing sheet
• oil pastels or crayons
• black tempera paint 
• brush
• aluminium foil 
• ribbon
• toothpick or skewer

What should you do?

1. Color the sheet with crayons. 
2. Paint it over with black tempera paint and let dry. 
3. Scratch with a toothpick a Christmas ball and fill it with patterns. 
4. Cut a small piece of aluminium foil and paste it on the ball with a folded ribbon under it. 

Works of art made by students of grade 6.

Elements of art: line (pattern)

Autumn trees near the water

What do you need?

• light blue drawing paper A4
• oilpastel crayons
• tempera paint in autumn colors
• brushes

What should you do?

1. Fold the paper in half. Above the fold is the country, below is the water. 
2. Draw on the upper side with oilpastels some trees without leaves in the grass and color them firmly. 
3. Draw below the fold the reflection of these trees. Color them less thick.
4. Make leaves on the trees at the upper side by tamponing warm colors tempera paint with a brush. Don't mix up the colors, but use two colors on the same time. 
5. Fold the sheet when the paint is still wet to get the reflection on the lower side of the sheet. Press gently but do not rub!

Works of art made by students of grade 4. 

Owl in moonlight

See the moon shining through the trees... and in the moonlight everything looks blue. 

What do you need?

• white drawing sheet 
• oil pastel
• blue ink
• brush
• dish with water
• scouring pad

What should you do?

1. Sketch a winter tree, so a tree without no leaves. Be sure your branches are thinner at the end. 
2. Sketch a moon between the branches. 
3. Draw an owl on one of the branches.
4. Color the tree with blue oil pastel. Make differences in color by pressing harder or softer or by using a little black or white. 
5. Color the owl blue too. Use yellow or orange for eyes and beak. 
6. Color the moon: white-yellow in the center and darker yellow at the outside.
7. Outline everything (even the smallest branches!) with white oil pastel. This is difficult, because you barely see the white and your white crayon may get blue (scrape it then!).
8. Paint the background with blue ink, water and a scouring pad. The white lines will resist the ink. Put undiluted blue ink on a dish and dip the soft side of a scouring pad in it. Stamp along the outer edges of the drawing. 
9. Add water to the ink when you're nearer at the moon to make the blue lighter. Make a light blue circle around the moon.