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The boys and girls in Ms. Hansberry’s 5th class were busy this week creating a spring time scene.
First we brushed an a3 page with water. We did this so it would be easy to blend the colours.
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Next, we painted the background using water colours. When the entire background was painted, we left the paintings aside to dry.
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While the paintings were drying we watered down black paint so it had a more ink like consistency. Using an eye dropper, we added a small dab of paint to the paper and then gently blew it with a straw to create the tree and all the branches. We tried it on a practice paper just to get the technique down. We loved this part!!!
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Once we were confident with the technique we moved onto creating the cheery blossom tree on our paintings.
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Our final step was finger painting. We used our fingers to create the flowers.
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