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A Happy Easter Card - have fun coloring or painting my Easter Coloring Page!
 An Easter Drawing |
More Easter Coloring pages on Catinka's Maine and Animal Coloring Pages
 My painting of Easter eggs. Try my eggs drawing template.
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Watercolor Lesson and Student Work Practice painting eggs with as few strokes as possible. Paint directly on multi-purpose paper using a large brush. Immediately paint designs with strong color using damp (not sopping) brush.
More practice painting.
Easter eggs by the kids. Individual photos on my Flickr site or, the kids art set on Flickr
Easter Greetings from two students
| This week's theme for the Thursday Photo Challenge is round, ovoid,... Boy did that suit me for fitting with Easter. You will see elsewhere what we did with this in watercolor class. These are blown Easter eggs I decorated with crayon resist and dye. Caran D'Ache wax crayons are very strong colors that draw very smoothly and finely. Draw on the egg so that you have enough pigment and wax built up to resist the dye bath. The dye will go wherever the crayon is not. It's great for florals, patterns and gardens. See the little apple tree on one of the eggs? I drew that on the egg along with some ground details, then dipped the sky part into blue dye and the ground into green dye. The egg with the stripes and floral patterns was done with crayon and watercolor. The watercolor does not take as well on eggshell as dye does and sometimes it manages to stick over the crayon. |
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| A birthday drawing on someone's birthday. I know, Passover started tonight too. |
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Try your hand at drawing some rabbits for Easter (or Spring). For reference you can print out my rabbits drawing inspired by Beatrix Potter. Rabbits Drawing Page or Coloring Page.
Besides writing and illustrating the Peter Rabbit books, Beatrix Potter was a sheep farmer, watercolorist, naturalist and conservationist. You can see some of her watercolors at Beatrix Potter Society.
Find more rabbits and Spring coloring pages at Catinka's Maine and Animal Coloring Pages
 brush painting after Beatrix Potter |  brush painting after Takahiko Mikami |
 brush painting after Ken Hultgren | This week the kids did rabbits for Easter. We used my follow-along-method. These are my demonstration paintings, imperfections and all. I paint a few strokes on a large sheet of newsprint tacked up and they match stroke-by-stroke as best they can. You can see the kids' work at my new Flickr site. Once there, click the 'kids art' set or use the keywords "kids art - rabbits" to see their rabbit paintings. View my Flickr site. Flickr is a photography site. Since these are not photos (photos of art though) they may not let them be seen by the public. We'll have to see. Please let me know if you have trouble. And feel free to use the comment feature here, or there! |
