Summer zoom painting- frog shadow

Good afternoon again!

Today we went long because of dry time, but we got some fun conversation in while waiting. 

Small skill start-

Today’s beginning lesson was actually about the work we were doing together. The idea behind the original painting was you were looking up at a frog on a leaf so your perspective was the underside of the leaf and its shadow. If you want to make the painting your own, you can pick a frog, or make one up. Just know they are painting over the whole thing and if you want to make your red or purple pop, you’d need to paint around the frog. 

Painting together-

Today, we painted a frog shadow… or a frog depending on who you were…

While waiting for our leaves to dry, we talked about many things, including frog and toad differences. 

While I know of at least one very famous passage in the Bible that specifically mentions frogs, I decided to not go the plague route and instead chose Psalm 28:7 My heart leaps for joy, and with my song, I will praise Him.

This is an excellent project to practice lettering on if you want to, because there is a large section of green above your frog.

At home practice-

This week, I’m suggesting you try wet on dry negative painting. 

Start with a background. Draw some simple shapes. Paint everything around those shapes in a very diluted color. Dry. Repeat, adding more shapes and pigment each time. Here is a video in case this makes no sense (this lady has fantastic, easy, calming projects if you want to watch or follow more of her). I have two examples today, one of circles over rainbow, and one of darkening leaf-ish shapes. 

We will be doing at least one other project that involves dry time and wet on dry techniques, so keep those blow dryers handy and we’ll have to practice patience! 

Thank you for joining us. See you next week!