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Textured Landscape Painting Idea For Kids

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This easy landscape painting idea is the perfect way to teach elementary children about how to create texture while painting.
Print Tutorial
painting with 3 trees, grass and sky.
Prep:5 minutes
Creating:45 minutes
Dry Time:1 hour
Total Time:1 hour 50 minutes

Equipment

  • Pencil
  • Stiffer Paint Brush
  • Paint Tray, Palette or Paper Plate

Supplies

Instructions

Painting the Grass

  • Add a light horizon line on the black paper. It can be straight or slightly wavy.
  • Place green, yellow and white tempera paint on a paint tray or palette. Dab textures for the grass after picking up two colors at a time on the brush.
  • FIll the whole space under the horizon line.

Painting the Sky

  • Start with separate blobs of violet, blue and white on a paint tray. Dip your brush into different colors and swirl in the sky. You can leave some black or really fill the sky with paint.
  • Let painting dry.

Adding Trees

  • Draw three tree trunks with brown oil pastel or paint with brown paint.
  • Add leaves with red, oragne and yellow tissue paper. Wrap tissue paper around pencil end, dip in glue and stick on project.
  • Use dark colored chalk pastels to add shadows in the texture landscape.

Notes

  • Do not use water to clean your brush. You will not get the same texture feel and kids will end up with watered-down colors.
  • Make sure not to mix colors on the paint tray. Children need to understand that if they do that, they will not get the variety of colors and tints.
Author: Erin Nutter
Cost: under $5