Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Monochromatic Winter Tree


Ahoy!


This image looks a little blurry to me. Or perhaps someone spiked my smoothie this morn'. In any case, it might be necessary to take another shot (with camera not pistol).






Update: Is this photo better?





The Crafty Crew had an art lesson yesterday to introduce the art term: monochromatic colors. This winter tree was a simple craft project for teaching about monochromatic colors. Choose any one color. Paint chip samples were helpful for teaching this, too. We walked around the deck to find things on board the Ebony Oyster that are monochromatic and those that are not. Since we craft according to the season, gray was naturally the color of choice.







I typed in "monochromatic gray/silver" on Google and used these images to teach the concept:


https://www.google.com/search?q=monochromatic&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pdznUtfrH4eCogSd1YHwDA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1239&bih=917#q=monochromatic+silver&tbm=isch














Supplies we used:

-Blank piece of paper aka your canvas or background paper
-Draw a simple design. We chose a tree but it could be a circle, heart (think Valentine's Day...!!), robot (ideal with black/white/gray ), cat, moon, flower, etc.
-Glue
-Sequins, buttons, clear/white sea glass, silver "rhinestones", jewelry findings, metallic thread/elastic cording/string/yarn, etc. all in one color and hues/shades of that one color.
-Scissors
-Pencil or color pencil to outline the design (I used a silver metallic pencil to draw the tree shape)
-Kosher salt  (for the snow effect on the base of the winter tree)
-Scrap piece of (specialty) paper for the tree trunk


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To buy an IPatch! *





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