There are so many beautiful things being created in the studio right now, things I cannot share since they are getting wrapped up and placed under the Christmas tree for the artist's loved ones. So I thought I would share a project I did with a group of children a couple of years ago, cubist inspired Christmas trees with chalk pastels.
10 year old
Each artist first drew a Christmas tree on the paper lightly in pencil. They were asked to draw the tree using angles and to fill the page.
7 year old
Next each artist drew four circles of different sizes anywhere on the page.
6 year old
Then using a ruler, they drew four lines from one side of the paper to the other in any direction they wanted. I encouraged them to draw at least one on an angle.
10 year old
They then chose one cool and one warm pastel chalk. I also gave each artist a white and black chalk pastel to add to the two color pastel choices they had made. You will notice a couple of artist went off the beaten path a bit on their color choices from the directions given, which is fine by me if they really don't like the warm/cool color palette.
10 year old
I asked them to pick one of the two color pastels to use for the tree and the other for the background. Then the project became a bit of a puzzle. They created three different colors from the one chalk by adding white and black. Each shape they created by dissecting the lines was colored differently and they were to try to make sure the same color never touched each other.
8 year old
They then did the same thing with the second color for the background. I suggested they differentiate the lines by adding a bit of white or black for contrast.
Aren't the results amazing? The kids loved them.
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