Fourth grade artists combined their art and poetry skills to create these beautiful fall-inspired paintings.

They began with a sky-blue background, dabbing the watercolor paint with a tissue for added texture.

They traced leaves and added color with watercolor pencils.

 

Their beautiful leaf paintings were tied in to our cultural focus for the year, the study of Asian art.  We read the lovely book “One Leaf Rides The Wind” and learned about the art of writing Japanese Haiku poetry.

 

Fourth graders wrote wonderful fall-inspired poetry and added their writing to their leaf paintings.

 

I Can:

Show Movement with careful placement of objects and color

Manipulate watercolor and watercolor pencils with success

Write a Japanese Haiku

 

See more of our Falling Leaf artwork at our Artsonia On-Line Art Museum!