Students learned about the French artist Henri Rousseau and studied his jungle paintings. I drew out the tiger step by step as they followed along and then gave them a black marker to outline and color in the stripes, nose and pupil of the eye. A yellow marker was given to color the rest of the eye. The next day they were given orange paint to fill in the tiger and blue for the background. On the last day of the project they were given several shades of green construction paper squares in different sizes. I showed them examples of different types of plant life to include in their artwork such as grass, leaves and vines so to create a jungle around their tiger. The idea was to show overlapping and variety in their work. They drew out each piece, cut it out and arranged it around the sides of their picture however they wanted. This project was done with 2nd and 3rd grade.
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