Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th Grade

***UPDATE: I just added my “Summertime Art Lessons” page under the main menu! I’ll be adding a dedicated “Fall Art Lessons” and “Winter Art Lessons” page soon as well! I’ll also be adding more 5th grade “Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits” below and under 5th grade on Tuesday 6/9/26! 


This 3 day art lesson is inspired by the artist Cecilia Paredes. Besides my “Winter Northern Lights” and “1 Point Perspective Cityscapes”, this is definitely one of my top 3 favorite art lessons to teach 5th grade! I LOVE them so much and my students are really enjoying the process and are thrilled with their work as well! Only 2 (of my 4) 5th grade classes have finished so far. I’ll be adding more once finished!

I love his expression in the one above and it has a comic book illustration quality to it, doesn’t it?!

This lesson takes 3 (40 min.) art classes to finish— although some students finished up on day 2 

DAY 1

I showed students a few of my examples first and then introduced them to Cecilia Paredes’ artwork— Below are screenshots of my Google slides. 

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Below are my teacher examples 

We reviewed what mixed media meant, then I explained that we’d be creating 2 abstract paintings using watercolors (and oil pastels if they wanted) for their background. They would later on choose only one of their paintings for their finished artwork.  I then demonstrated a variety of ways they could paint. On their (2) 9×12” 80# white papers they could do any of the following: 

  • Paint random lines, shapes and colors with watercolors 
  • Splatter paint only 
  • Splatter paint and then scrape the paint while still wet 
  • Draw with oil pastels first, then splatter paint on top and then scrape 

For scraping, I had kids use the side of a plastic texture rubbing plate. Students were given one sheet of 9×12” to start, and when the first sheet was complete, they put it in the drying rack and then got a 2nd sheet. I encouraged kids to experiment, and to explore 2 different methods to create their  background paintings. 

My students had so much fun and thought it was so cool when they saw their results from scraping their paintings! 

There was definitely some horsing around in art class that day! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist) 

While kids painted, I went around and took each students photo. Kids could pose any way that they wanted, but I shot from their chest up so it would be more close-up. 

Later on, I edited their color photos to black and white, and then printed them out on regular 8.5” x 11” copy/printer paper at home. Then I slid their pictures in a plastic sheet protector (see pic below). 

DAY 2 

On day 2, I brought in all their photos inside the sheet protectors and demonstrated under the document camera how to trace over all the contour lines using a black fine point sharpie. 


I showed them that if you make a mistake anywhere with sharpie on the plastic, how to erase their marks. This is such a cool trick too! All you have to do is draw with a dry erase marker right over the mistake and then use a q-tip (or tissue) to rub it off!! LOVE that hack! 

Once all the contour lines were traced with black sharpie on the plastic sheet protector, they took their photo out and flipped it over to the white side, and placed it back inside with the white side facing up. This allows you to see your lines clearly and see colors more accurately when coloring. 

Then students colored in their hair, eyes, lips, and clothing with colored sharpies. They could use any colors they wanted. The only parts they couldn’t color in was their skin. The dry erase marker trick works on the color sharpie as well btw. 

These are the sharpies I purchased off Amazon for this lesson. Nice bright, vibrant colors and was fairly cheap too! 

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One thing I explained to students though was to be careful when coloring near the black sharpie lines. If you get colored sharpie right on top of the black contour lines, it dissolves them. So I just told them to be careful and to go right up to the black contour lines,  but try not to go over them. 

DAY 3 

Students finished coloring in their drawings and once complete, they tested out their plastic sheet drawing on top of both paintings. The cool thing about this project is you can flip the image over and try it out that way too! You can also turn the abstract painting upside down and see how the self-portrait looks as well! So many possibilities! That’s why I had them paint two paintings —not only to experiment more with painting techniques—but this way they had more than one option for their background.  

Once students positioned their self-portrait drawings the way they liked it on top of their selected painting, they paper clipped the painting and self-portrait together.  Then later on, I trimmed the edges of the plastic sheet with scissors (to remove the sealed edges and the 3 ring binder holes) and stapled the artwork together. 

Also—When kids finished, they could keep their 2nd painting and their black and white photo and some students created additional art using them. One student made a really sweet birthday card for her dad using the photo and painting! 

I’ll be adding more student artwork here once my other two 5th grade classes finish! 

Learning Goals: 

Students can utilize the Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Color, Value and Texture to create their art and can define each element 

Students learn about Cecilia Paredes and can identify her artwork 

Students can define mixed media 

Students can define abstract art and create an abstract painting 

Students can demonstrate various watercolor painting techniques 

Students can define what contour lines are and can create the contour lines for their self-portrait 

If you didn’t already see, I recently created a “SELF-PORTRAIT” page listed under the main menu with a variety of self-portrait lessons for grades K-5 (and was updated on 5/31/26!)

I also added a NEW page “Every Art Lesson Since 2017” under my main menu the other day and actually edited it today (5/31/26) so that all these post links are in some kind of order! I put them all by grade level and one miscellaneous category. Now it’ll be easier for you to locate stuff I posted! YAY!

I also plan on adding “summer art lessons”, “fall art lessons” and “winter art lessons” pages soon too! 

And finally, I just added an “OP Art”resource sheet in my TpT store for my 5th grade OP Art drawing lesson. My TpT store is HERE!

Thanks so much for visiting my website today! 

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“Mixed Media Bouquet of Flowers” by 4th grade

Finished artwork is 9×12″ with an 11 x 14″ white paper border. 

This 5 day ( 40 min. each class) mixed media art lesson focuses on 6 of the 7 Elements of Art; Form, Line, Shape, Color, Texture, and Value. This art lesson is inspired from a combination of two art teachers- Laura athttps://www.paintedpaperart.com and @amymcreynolds on Instagram with some variation. 

You may have seen this lesson before on my 5th grade art lessons page.  It’s basically the  same lesson except in 4th grade we used 10 year old, up-cycled messy mats for either the vase or table rather than bubble wrap printing! I love the texture, beautiful mark making and fun pops of color with these messy mats! 

Here’s a few from 5th grade with the bubble wrap printing.

To see my full blog post on the 5th graders mixed media bouquet of flowers artwork with bubble wrap printing, you can click on my link HERE 

This is the first year I decided to teach it to 4th grade ( at just one of my two schools because I only teach ONE 4th grade class there). I would love to teach it to my 4th graders at my other school, but I’m on a cart over there (4 days a week) and I have FOUR 4th grade classes, so it’d be a bit much. Between the clay, storing the clay flowers to dry, the splatter painting, painting the clay flowers, all the cut paper and glue and hot gluing of all those clay flowers…it’d be a real challenge off a cart! 

BUT…that being said…I’m really glad I did teach it to one class, and my students had a blast creating them! AND they’ll be displayed alongside all my other 4th graders artwork (Enlarged flower drawings inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe) at the newly annual “4th grade spring showcase celebration” that specialists (art/music/P.E.) put on in a couple of weeks! This 4th grade spring showcase started just last year, and last year I displayed all 4th graders Victorian houses. 

For this lesson we used white Model Magic clay, splatter painting with watercolors on 80# white paper, tempera paints to paint the clay flowers, flower’s stems and leaves, colored railroad poster board paper, up-cycled messy mats,  and scissors and glue sticks.

DAY 1

Students splatter painted with watercolors on one 12×18” 80# white drawing paper each. They could use any colors they wanted. This painting would then be used for either their table or for their vase later on. That painting day was fun but SUPER messy haha, as you’ll see in the photos below! 

DAY 2 

Students each received a 1 ounce small packet of white model magic to create 5 flower heads. To make 5 flowers, we used two 1 ounce packets in total, but we started off with just one so I wouldn’t have to wrap any left over clay or throw it out. 

I demonstrated under the document camera ways to create a bunch of different flowers, but students could make any kind they wanted as well. 

I showed students how to roll a small chunk of clay into a small circle, about the size of a ping pong ball, then flatten the ball with their palm (to about the thickness of an oreo cookie), then using scissors, cut small triangular sections out all the way around and then shape the remaining sections with your fingers to create the flowers petals. 

From there they used their fingers to shape and point the ends if they wanted, or leave them more straight on the ends. They could also cut up into each petal at the end and create a fringed edge. Then the leftover clay from the triangle cut outs were balled up and flattened a bit to make the flowers center. They could poke little dots in the flowers centers too for added texture with a pencil as well.  

Other balls of clay were made into tulips, buy repeating the same steps as above, but then stretching the circle out a bit to an oval, then cutting two triangles out from the top to make three points for the top of the tulip. 

I also showed how to layer one finished flower on top of another to add more dimension, circle “button” flowers, and roses. To make the roses, take a very small amount of clay and create a ball, flatten it out so it’s fairly thin, and shape into a small oval. Then roll the clay into itself starting at one end to make the roses center (where petals are the tightest). Then take tiny amounts of clay, roll into small balls (the size of a pea) and flatten with your finger in your palm to make additional rose petals, and attach to the rose in layers all the way around. 

Students could create a variety of 5 flowers, or they could be a combination of repeating just a few! Students were very creative and came up with some fun “pac-man” shaped flowers, delicate lavender, and other unique flowers! 

I asked the cafeteria staff if I could buy a bunch of styrofoam lunch trays for this lesson and they were so nice to just let me take an entire sleeve (probably 100 trays!)

The clay sticks to paper plates and many other surfaces so it’s important to use a non stick surface for this lesson. You could use tinfoil over a plate which would work too. I like the fact that the lunch trays have 5 individual compartments though, so the flowers don’t touch each other and stick to one another as they dry. Then kids just wrote their names with a sharpie along the edge of the tray. Highly recommend styrofoam lunch trays for this!!! Plus- they easily fit in the drying rack being on the trays, without hurting any of the flowers!

Flowers were stashed away in the drying rack to harden until the next art class. To completely harden it takes a couple of days depending on the thickness of the clay. 

DAYS 3 – 4 

Students painted their flowers with liquid tempera paint. This took 2 art classes to finish painting all 5 flowers because a bunch of kids were absent on day one of painting, and some kids just needed more time. 

I put the paints in ice cube trays (you can buy these silicone ice cube trays with hard plastic lids on Amazon as seen below), to separate colors and for ease of sharing at tables. 

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I had to give some of my tempera paint brushes haircuts for this lesson. I thought I had smaller tempera brushes somewhere in my art room but I didn’t. So…I improvised!

Students could paint their flowers any colors they wanted! I added the whole rainbow of colors as well as mixed blue and green paint to make teal, and red and white paint to make pink. 

Kids started on the petals first, leaving the center last, in order to hold them while painting. They rinsed their brush well in water and wiped on a paper towel between changing colors. Some students decided to paint their flowers with the whole rainbow of colors! 

DAY 5

On the final day students assembled everything together! 

To prep —after school one day, I cut the railroad poster board paper into 9×12” sheets from 22”x28”sheets (giving me 4 -9×12” sheets per large sheet). Then I hot glued all students 5 flowers onto each sheet of 9×12″.  One year I did this lesson and the pack included light pink paper, but this time it did not FYI. 

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Teachers out there reading this- this took a bit of time (a little over an hour per class of 27 students). I picked out the color for the paper, wrote each students name on the back and had 2 hot glue guns going as I worked. After, I placed all their papers with flowers in a large cardboard mason box to disperse in class later.

I also cut their 12×18” splatter paintings in half to 9×12” and paper clipped together. Then I cut beautiful old (10 years old?) messy mats into 9×12” sheets to use as either the vase or table. 

I also created 5 different vase templates for students to trace over either their splatter painted papers or the cut messy mats. I think including a tracer was helpful, since getting the sizing right to fit the vase under their flowers might have been a bit tricky.

I just added these 5 vase templates in my TpT store for only $2! My TpT store is HERE!

Students also each received a 4”x9” tagboard template to use to trace over either paper for their table. Last time I did this lesson with 5th graders, I had them use rulers to measure for their table and then cut. But this year with 4th graders I just wanted to make sure we were able to complete the lesson on day 5. Plus using the table tracer allows kids to select an area from wherever they want on their paper, rather than just measuring from the bottom of the paper. 

First students choose a section from one of their splatter painted papers or from a section of a messy mat sheet to create their table, using their table tracer. Once that was cut and glued into place they used one of the vase tracers to trace on either paper. 

I suggested they use both papers (one for the table and a different one for the vase) for more visual interest, but they could use the same paper if they really wanted.

For a final step, students used 2 different shades of green liquid tempera paint (a dark green and a lighter minty green) to paint flower stems and leaves.

They all turned out so lovely! I love the variety of flowers, textures, colors AND unique artistic decisions!!

LEARNING GOALS:

Students can define mixed media

Students can demonstrate 3D sculpting by manipulating, rolling, and attaching Model Magic to create form and dimension

Students can apply the elements of art; Line, Shape, Color, Form, Texture and Value in their artwork and explain where they used them

I’m thinking I might make a YouTube tutorial on this lesson—or at the very least, on how to make clay flowers. Before I do though,  I’m curious to know if it’s something people would be interested in—if you’d be interested in watching it please send me an email (through the contact section on my website on my “contact” page) or you can DM me through Instagram. 

Please check out some of my previous posts by clicking on the links below! 

 4th grade “Enlarged Flower Drawings” and 5th grade “Splattered Paintbrushes”! 

Mixed Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud 

Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th grade

One point Perspective Cityscapes – 5th Grade

NEW YouTube Art Tutorial! “April Showers Brings May Flowers” -2nd Grade 

2nd Grade “Thinking of Summer Self-Portraits” and 1st Grade “Dream Houses”

Winter Northern Lights! 5th grade Art Lesson

Blackout poetry – 5th Grade 

Draw your own Inventions – 1st Grade

KINETIC ARTWORK BY 3RD GRADE!

GRID DRAWINGS inspired by Chuck Close!  -5th GRADE

Winter Cardinals -4th grade and Superhero Masks – 2nd grade!

(The masks would be a great 1-2 day project for the end of the year art lesson!  Kids LOOOVE making their own unique masks and could be for any grade level! And I have 4 PDF Printable mask templates in my TpT store for only $2.50!) 

The link below goes directly to my “Springtime Art Lessons” page (39 art lessons listed w/ pics!) 

https://www.artwithmrsfilmore.com/springtime-art-lessons/

Thanks so much for visiting my site today! I’ll be posting again soon on 5th graders “Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits” as well as “K and 1 Self-Portraits”! 

My TpT store is HERE!

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Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th grade

I’m so excited to start this new lesson soon with my 5th graders! I’ve been having fun creating a variety of examples! Watercolors, sharpie markers, plastic sheet protectors, 9×12” 80# white drawing paper, oil pastels ( See below)

I created a few different variations of the first one (below)

Such a fun way to create a self-portrait and I think my students are going to love it!

Here’s what I did to create the first two:

I created the background painting first, by splattering watercolors, with all different colors, all over a sheet of 80# 9×12” white drawing paper with a watercolor brush. I think splattering smaller drops of paint with more paint than water on the brush works best for this technique.

I let the paint sit for a minute on the paper to allow the pigment of the watercolor paint to adhere and saturate the paper, creating the little dots of color here and there. Then I scraped the paint. I think I’ll have students use a piece of stiff cardboard for this, but I used a couple of index cards folded in half together, and turned the index card each time I scraped a section. A cut up cereal box would work great for this. Then the painting was set aside to dry completely. In the 1st photo above, I scrape randomly and in a wavy way. 2nd photo above, I scraped going from the center outward to the edges of the paper all the way around.

Then I took a couple of photos of myself and I also used one that I already had in my phone (the silly wide-eyed expression one looking at the drink) and printed them out as black and white on 8.5” x 11” white copy paper.

Then I slipped the black and white photo inside an 8.5” x 11” clear plastic sheet protector and traced all the contour lines of my face, hair and clothes using a fine point black permanent sharpie on the plastic. Once complete, I pulled the black and white photo out and put a white paper underneath the plastic sheet protector (so I could see my contour lines easily) and colored in my hair, eyes, lips and clothes with colored permanent sharpie markers. I love the texture that the sharpie creates when coloring on plastic! Zoom in on the photos above to see, if you’ve never tried this technique before. It’s so cool!

Then I just laid my colored plastic sheet on top of my painting. You can flip the plastic over to the other side and try it that way as well! There’s so many possibilities to the layout and the way the colors work together with this!

FYI— I did trim the sides and bottom of the plastic sheet protector with scissors after coloring in, in order to get rid of the three ring binder holes that it comes with, and to cut the other side to not make it a sealed edge.
Then once you SEPERATE the plastic just glue the back of your colored plastic sheet with a clear glue stick all over and glue onto your painting!

****More on what brand of sheet protectors and colored sharpies I used below****

For the 3rd one , I first drew random lines with pink and orange oil pastels on 80# 9 x 12” white drawing paper. Then I sprayed water (a fine mist) all over my paper lightly. Then I used blue watercolor paint to splatter randomly over the dampened paper. Then I scraped my paper using the same method with index cards as above and let dry. Then used the same methods with tracing contour lines and coloring with colored sharpies as above.

For images #4, #5 and #6 I created a plastic wrap resist technique. I painted pink/red circles one at a time randomly all over the 80# paper with watercolors, using a lot of paint, then immediately laid down a small cut square of plastic wrap on top of the circle. (You just need to make sure you put a lot of watercolor on your brush and make sure the paint is still wet before putting on the plastic wrap.Also make sure the cut plastic wrap/saran wrap is slightly larger than the circle.)
Then I pulled up the center of each plastic wrap square slightly, and twisted it in one direction tightly, to create the flower petal appearance. I did this for all the circles and then used only a tiny bit of red paint on my brush -but mainly water —and painted all around the plastic wrap flowers, filling in the negative space. Then left it to sit and dry for at least 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, or more, I peeled off the plastic wrap and let the painting dry for an additional 30 minutes before laying the plastic self-portrait on top to take a photo.

For the final picture (pic #7) I did the same technique as above with plastic wrap on watercolors, except I used a variety of colors. I painted one circle at a time and left a bit of white paper in the center, then painted a different color in each center, then applied the cut Saran Wrap on top and twisted. Then I pressed at the circles edges all the way around to let the paint bleed outside my painted circle a little, to create a slightly wavy edge. See pics below

This watercolor plastic wrap resist technique would be fun to use for creating a field of flowers with kids, or a vase of flowers!

I also did a few other paintings ( below) with plastic wrap and wet-on-wet technique with watercolors, but they didn’t really come out as I envisioned them to be, so didn’t use them.

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If any students are reading this, just want to point out that we all go through frustrations, set backs, disappointments, and challenges in art making—-even art teachers!! I know I was annoyed/ frustrated at times when I was creating these examples —but after a bunch of experimenting and perseverance—-I did end up excited and happy with some of my playful results!! So just remember, just keep trying and have fun and you never know what you might discover along the way!
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These are the colored sharpies I purchased on Amazon —I love them and they are very colorful and bright! Pack of 48 (for only 9.90!)

These are the plastic sheet protectors I purchased off Amazon below. Nice thickness, and crystal clear. 25 per pack for a little over $4

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You can see in the pic below how clear these are


I also ordered the ones below by a different company—BUT don’t buy these—they have a slight texture to them and aren’t crystal clear as you can see in the photos below.
Too bad I bought 300 of them?!?! But I guess I’ll find a use for them for holding cooking recipes —or I could use them to make my sub plan binder look a little more organized haha

(if you zoom in you can see it has a rough texture to it )

I like using Crayola “Portfolio” brand oil pastels as you can see below- – but I know there’s a bunch of other brands that are just as good / if not better.

5th graders will be starting these once they finish up their “Splattered Paintbrushes” art lesson!

This mixed media watercolor self-portrait lesson is inspired by the contemporary Artist Cecilia Paredes (she is an amazing painter – check out her artwork if you haven’t seen her self-portraits!!!!) I’m excited to introduce my students to her work! Below is a link to view some of her incredible work!

https://echofinearts.com/artists/cecilia-paredes/?srsltid=AfmBOorcI7oDKTetuJTzHXX2Ujij9QrHTkp_gOqPU-wLEmjDoGUF6JPv

I’ll update this post (as well as my “5th Grade Art Lessons” page ) with photos of students working on their art as well as students finished artwork, and the learning goals for the lesson once complete! 

Check out some of my recent posts below! (Clicking on the link will bring you right to that post! ) 

Mixed Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud

One point Perspective Cityscapes – 5th Grade

Blackout poetry – 5th Grade

Draw your own Inventions – 1st Grade

Winter Northern Lights! 5th grade Art Lesson

I also added a page “springtime art lessons” recently that have 39 springtime art lessons all in one place, with pics and links to my original posts with detailed steps. That can be found under the main menu or you can click Here

Thanks so much for visiting my website today!

P.S BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR A SALE IN MY TpT STORE SOMETIME THIS WEEKEND!!! : D

UPDATE! I’ve just added a 20% off entire store sale starting today 4/25 to 4/28!

Link to my TpT store is HERE

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NEW YouTube Tutorial “Mixed-Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud ”

I hope you enjoy watching my new video! I had a lot of fun making it!


*****NEW! I just added my step-by-step drawing guide (PDF) on how to draw the cake to my TpT store (4/15/26) for only $1.25*****

Link to my TpT is  HEREHERE  

In my video, I first give an introduction on Wayne Thiebaud and talk about his artwork while showing a variety of his paintings with the titles of the art listed at the bottom, and share some fun facts kids will love! (2 minutes), then during the drawing I show how to hold a ruler correctly when drawing any straight lines—-how to use crayon to create a “barrier” or wall, to prevent watercolors from seeping into other wet sections, —and “wet-wet woops!”Something I came up with when wet paint next to wet paint merges together where you don’t want it to 🙂

Suitable for grades 3-5 


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Materials needed: 

  • Good quality white drawing paper (I used 9×12” 80# paper) 
  • Black fine point sharpie permanent marker 
  • Crayons 
  • Ruler
  • Watercolors 
  • Puffy paint (or oil pastels) for the sprinkles 

3 day lesson (40 minute art classes each) 

Day 1: 

Draw and sharpie cake (include frosting dripping over edge, wavy frosting on top around perimeter, strawberry (or other cake topping like chocolates, candles, or cherries), diagonally striped frosting on the inside, plate, table and 5 vertical stripes for rainbow inside the cake (if you want to include that part) *omit sharpie on those lines 

Day 2: 

  1. Color strawberry with crayon 
  2. Color wavy frosting on top of cake with crayon 
  3. Draw a thick line of crayon at edge of frosting drips
  4. Color in the diagonal stripe of inside frosting with crayon 
  5. Trace over vertical stripes inside cake (just tracing over lines) to create a “barrier” for paint, with crayons, pressing hard
  6. Color in the plate with crayon 
  7. Add crayon tablecloth design / pattern on table
  8. Paint the sides of cake (from drips down) not the inside slice taken out yet 
  9. Paint the top of cake and frosting drips

Day 3: 

  1. Paint the inside of cake (just be careful near the top and don’t use too much water on your brush) rainbow vertical stripes starting with red at outermost edge of cake going to purple in the center on both sides 
  2. Add puffy paint sprinkles on top of cake (or once the top is completely dry) or use oil pastels 

LEARNING GOALS: 

  1. Students learn about the artist Wayne Thiebaud and can identify his work 
  2. Students understand how art and other disciplines, like math can be interdisciplinary and helps generate new ideas and supports creative thinking
  3. Students utilize the elements of art: line, shape, form, space, texture and color to create a cake and can identify those elements in their work 
  4. Students can create, identify and define crayon wax resist techniques 


*****NEW! I just added my step-by-step drawing guide (PDF) on how to draw the cake to my TpT store (4/15/26) for only $1.25

Link to my TpT is  HEREHERE  

This handout would be great for any absent students on day 1 of the lesson. Also great for any early finishers on any given day! And useful to add to your sub binder!

I hope you enjoy my new video!!

I know in my last post “Springtime Art Lessons” I mentioned that I’d be creating a new video for 2nd grade “April Showers brings May Flowers” but I just really wanted to create this video first! I will still be creating that one though sometime very soon!

I’m also thinking about creating a YouTube tutorial on Georgia O’Keeffe inspired Enlarged flower drawings (oil pastel) — you can view them under my 4th grade Art Lessons page —-would you be interested in something like that? With a bit of Art history and talking about her art and life in the intro? Let me know your thoughts!

Please check out my new video when you can! Also be sure to check out my post below on “Springtime Art Lessons” —there’s a ton listed from grades K-5 as well as special education with links back to my original posts on many of them that have detailed step-by-step directions with lots of photos. I plan on making a permanent spot for all of those on a dedicated page under my main menu in the next day or so.

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