Project Title: Tape Resist Abstract Watercolor Painting
Medium: Drawing and Painting – Abstract Project
Grade Theme: Animals

Overview: Students will create abstract paintings using tape, crayons and watercolor crayons
Art Skills: Composing the page, coloring, brushwork
Process: Students will separate their papers into regions using blue painters’ tape.  They will rub wax crayons along the edges of the tape and then color the regions with up to two colors of watercolor crayons per region that interact on the color wheel.  They will then remove the tape and color the sections that had been taped.  They will then blend the colors with watercolor brushes and water without muddying them into each other.
Materials: Mixed Media Art paper, wax crayons, watercolor crayons, brushes, water
Tools Provided by Classroom: no materials needed for this day
Vocabulary: Abstract Art, warm/cool colors, shape, blending, color mixing, color wheel
Multiple Subject Integration: Geometry, color theory, abstract art

*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists.  Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson!

Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson making abstract paintings.  They designed their paintings with resist tape and colored and blended their color choices with watercolor crayons and brushes.