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Fall Leaf Crayon Resist - Mixed Media                                                       

Mate­ri­als:

• 12x18 white paper

• black crayon, bro­ken in half with paper peeled off

• water­color set and brush

• water

• real leaves in a vari­ety of shapes and sizes

Vocab­u­lary:

Tex­ture - the actual way something feels when touched or the way it looks like it would feel.

Com­po­si­tion — the arrange­ment of the parts of a pic­ture.

Con­trast — the use of oppo­sites together, such as light and dark col­ors or rough and smooth tex­tures.

Direc­tions:

1. Lay leaves one at a time under paper and rub with side of black or dark crayon. Let some leaves over­lap. Don’t stop until the entire paper is cov­ered with leaf rub­bings! (Make sure to sign your name with crayon before start­ing to paint.)

2. Choose a color to paint the back­ground (fall colors work well). Paint the entire back­ground with this one color before paint­ing any leaves.

3. Next, paint leaves using a vari­ety of col­ors, but do not use your back­ground color on any of the leaves, and do not use black!

4. You will know you are fin­ished when your entire paper is painted and there is no white paper left showing!