"Construction Vehicles" 2nd Grade

2nd Graders have been creating paintings of bulldozers and cranes. We took our inspiration from the cafeteria construction site next door to the art room. They worked on using thick lines for the main shapes of the vehicles, and thin lines for the detail. They drew their vehicle on yellow construction paper and cut it out and glued it onto watercolor paper. Then they drew their background, and used watercolor markers to add the color. They learned 3 shading techniques (hatching, cross-hatching, and scumbling) and filled in their background. When they brushed water over the watercolor marker, it filled the rest of the space with color.