Watercolor winter scenes.

Our focus for this class was to learn a couple of ways to make trees, add snow, and make a gradation of colors in the sky. 

Some of the trees were painted using a round brush.  Some were painted using a puddle of paint and a straw.  Puddle up your paint, if you want to give it a try and then blow as hard as you can through a straw in different directions around the paper. 

The snow was added by using white paint and lots of water, then tap your brush against your finger over the painting.  Move your hand around the paper and it looks like it is snowing.  Or, it could look like stars in the night sky if you use darker colors for the sky.

We used a paper towel to blot out some of the paint in the sky to represent clouds.  Here, there are shadows coming from the trees that flow across the snow.

Everyone's painting came out different.  The trees, clouds, hills and grasses poking through the snow are all different and beautiful.  Go outside and look at some trees and try to draw them as you see them.  It's fun!

Hey! haven't I seen you before?  Love that tree!  You all did a great job.  Keep up the good work.