Painting Patch!

A couple of weeks ago, our Brownie troop decided to get a little messy and work on our painting patch!

We invited our art teacher, Miss Rapp in so she could talk to us about  different kinds of art and show us different paintings by different artists.

Then it was time to get down  to business.  We took paper bags, crumpled them up, and used our fingers to paint like the cavemen did.  They didn't have paintbrushes back then so we couldn't use them either!

We had to get creative and come up with symbols that we might leave on the wall of our cave for our moms!

After that, we did break out the paint and brushes and worked on painting a landscape portrait on a  light switch.  Since it was close to Earth Day, we could put it up as a reminder to turn off the lights when we were done in that room!

These turned out very beautiful (and upside down).

Then it was time for some abstract art. Each girl got a canvas with tape on it.  We painted them to give it the "stained glass" appeal. We let them dry before we peeled off the tape.

Then we had to work on some still life paintings.  This time we used watercolors and we had to paint a classroom object.  This was harder to do than we thought!  We learned that some of the very most popular paintings are still life paintings.

After all that, it was time to work on a group mural to hang at school.  We still have yet to finish it because we ran out of time but it will look awesome when it's done!