Bee Hives!

Bee Hives!We had a great time over the last two art classes working on bee hives! We began by painting a single sheet of water color orange (as the background color for the inside of the hive). 

 While those were drying we discussed and practiced drawing bees. Once the kids felt confident we drew and painted bees using oil pastels and water colors. We began (in the usual way) drawing the outlines of the bees with black and painting with yellow watercolor. The kids have all used materials in this way before. The bees came out beautifully, but no surprises. 

 Next we drew bees with yellow and painted over with black watercolor. As you can see, these bees really popped. They were bright and beautiful! The watching the kids experiment and delight in the resistance of the oil pastel to watercolor was a real pleasure.

While those dried, we retrieved our (now dry) orange papers. Each child also received yellow paint, a large paintbrush and a square of bubble wrap. (Can you guess where this is going?) The kids painted the "bubble side" of the bubble paper and then printed it (flipping it upside down and pressing) onto the orange paper. Peeling the bubble wrap off, a beautiful honey comb print appeared!

The following class, we took the time to carefully cut out all of our bees and give them a home in their hives. Outstanding! Apologies for the lateness of the post!