4th Grade - Straw Blown Fall Trees

We’ve created these go-with-the-flow watercolor paintings in the spirit of fall.  

We didn’t use a single paintbrush, though!  We used straws to blowwww the brown paint to make branches. Cotton swabs were used to dot on the little leaves. 

We learned about warm and cool colors.  The backgrounds of our paintings are cool and theforegrounds are warm. 

We also learned that when things are closer to us in a painting, they are larger and more detailed; this is called perspective.