These are some of the gorgeous swimming self-portraits made by my grade
ones, who are excited to be starting swimming lessons for the first time
next week. We talked about what it looks and feels like to swim
underwater in a pool and looked at some photos of other children
swimming in a pool. The students then drew themselves using oil pastels.
To get an underwater look, we then scrunched up the drawings and
flattened them out again to create ripples in the paper. We used a blue
dye sprinkled with salt for the background. This is the same technique I
used for these Swimming Sea Turtles
a few years ago. We then used plastic bottle lids to stamp blue and
white circles on a piece of blue card for a bubbly picture frame.
I am loving these!They do have an underwater feel. And the bubble printed border is the perfect finishing touch. This would be fun for my kids to do to remember their summers.This one is getting "pinned"!
ReplyDeleteGreat lesson! This will definitely be one of the first lessons I use after summerbreak. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAwesome art pieces! The children's work is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMakes me want to go for a swim and dive down deep to the bottom of the pool.
ReplyDeleteque refrescante idea!! what a refreshing idea!! congrats!
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ReplyDeleteVery nice, and so individualistic!
ReplyDeleteLove these!!!
ReplyDeleteCould you tell me what you mean by blue dye wash? I would like to do this art project. Thanks! -Michelle
ReplyDeleteMichelle, the dyes I use are called Edicol dye - they are similar to food colouring. They come in a powdered form and are mixed with water to create an ink. I think they're an Australian thing (not sure where you are from?) Alternatively you could try some sort of tempera - that may work. :)
ReplyDeleteLove this project! Changed it a bit and used it for our first back to school project. Thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteI never saw these Anne. They are wonderful!! I love the character that they get when underwater. So cute, I must pin it:)
ReplyDeleteHello, I love your blog and I used this idea with my grade 3 students earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to my blog which shows where I have linked to and mentioned yours.
http://thebackartroom.global2.vic.edu.au/2015/07/07/grade-3-david-hockney-style-swimming-paintings/
Thanks for your inspiration!
Shell
I'm the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your swimmer project! You can see it here:
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If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we'd love for you to submit them. Thanks for a great project idea!
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Such amazing work by kids with these colour pencils
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