Second grade artists are studying the amazing Maurice Sendak and his wonderful story "Where the Wild Things Are." We looked closely at his illustrations and had a texture scavenger hunt, and then practiced drawing textures using lines and shapes. Students drew different wild things and chose the best one to turn into a watercolor.
Here are more amazing Wild Things on our online Student Art Museum:
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=996439
Second Grade artists are busy creating their own Wild Things! We read the outstanding author and illustrator Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are," and looked very closely at the illustrations. Mr. Sendak draws some incredible textures throughout the story, and we talked about how he used lines and shapes to create all of the different textures. We then practiced some different textures together, and then drew our own wild thing and used at least four different textures on different parts of the wild thing. After practicing two or three, we chose our best idea and drew it bigger on a piece of white construction paper. Students outlined with a black Sharpie, and here they are adding color with watercolors. Look for these on display at Zilker soon!
