Design a stark winter landscape with long shadows. Show silhouettes of trees, snowboarders, sleighs, or other winter scenes. Add a sprinkle of salt and you're set!
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Find examples of snow scenes and silhouettes that have a great impact. Search fine art examples (Monet's <i>Haystacks in the Snow</i>), as well as children's literature (<i>The Snowy Day</i>), advertising, packaging, and other uses. How are snow effects achieved by artists?
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Experiment with ways to achieve snowy silhouettes, such as the technique outlined here. Cover your work area with newspaper. To create the sky for your snowstorm wet watercolor paper with a sponge.
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Fill a Crayola® Watercolor Brush with one color of Crayola Watercolor Paint. Brush the wet color over the wet paper. Rinse your brush and add a second color, blending the colors together on the paper. Cover the entire page to resemble sky colors during a snowstorm.
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While the paint is still wet, sprinkle kosher salt on the painting. Watch the salt absorb the watercolors to make a crystal or snowy pattern. Dry.
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On dark construction paper, sketch silhouettes of winter images with a white Crayola Colored Pencil. You might make skiers or snowboarders, trees, sleighs, skylines, or other wintry scenes. Use Crayola Scissors to cut out silhouettes. Attach them to your
Crayola® Model Magic snowmen demonstrate your understanding of the different physical forms of water.
Design a stark winter landscape with long shadows. Show silhouettes of trees, snowboarders, sleighs, or other winter sce
Experiment with paint techniques to create a unique snow scene.
Create light, sparkly snowflakes! Decorate a package, trim a tree, or hang them in winter windows. Let it snow!
