Rainforest Art

This week we have been learning about rain forests so we did some art about it. We first had to research and find one rain forest leave that we liked. Then we practised drawing our leave on a piece of paper. Once we had practised drawing our leaves and were happy with the one we choose we were given a A3 sized piece of paper. When we got our paper we lightly drew out big leaves on it so if we made a mistake, we could rub it out and we wouldn't see where the line was. We made sure to draw out big leaves on the paper so it would cover most of the paper but not all of it. When we had drew out our leaves and we were happy with them we were given wax crayons to colour them in. The reason we used wax crayons was because we are using dye and wax crayons go best with it. When we were colouring in our leaves we tried to make them as detailed and realistic as possible. If we wanted the leave to look like it was far away we made it darker and then if we wanted it to look like it was closer we made it lighter. We also made our leaves coming in from different sides of the paper and making some over lap each other to make it look more realistic. Once we had coloured in all of our leaves, it was time to use dye for the background. There was lots of different colours we could use but I decided to use a light green. When we were doing our back round we also put the dye over our leaves to full in any spots we might have missed. Then after that we let them dry. Now it was time for the bird. We researched about different rain forest birds and choose the one that we liked. I choose a Scarlet Macaw. When we had chosen the bird that we liked we had the choice if we wanted to do our bird on an A4 sized paper or an A3 sized paper. The reason we did this was if we liked our background lots we could draw our bird on an A4 paper so it doesn't cover much of the paper or if you wanted your bird to be big you could do it on a A3 sized paper. I choose to do mine on an A3 piece of paper. Once we were given our paper we drew out our bird lightly on to it. Then when we were done and happy with it we coloured it in with wax crayons. After that we went over each colour with the same coloured dye. Then we let them dry. After that we cut them out, then with our left over paper, we cut out a strip of it then folded it and glued it on to our leaves piece of paper. Then we glued the bird on top. And after that we were done.