Circle Roses

With the support of our amazing PAC (let me repeat - AMAZING) we are working on an art card fundraiser this spring to celebrate our budding young artists. The teachers were chatting about possible card designs and ideas for weeks. Each settled on a design and every student completed a bright, spring painting for their card. With help from Ms. Terretta, each piece of art will be lovingly scanned and soon be ready for card production. Sample card images and ordering information will be sent home in the next couple of weeks. We're beyond excited to celebrate our students' work in such a unique and professional format. Families can share their children's art with friends and family near and far with these treasured keepsake greeting cards.

After much contemplating, I decided on a simple, but detailed circle rose design that I stumbled across on Pinterest from Art Projects for Kids. Here is the link and how to: http://artprojectsforkids.org/how-to-draw-circle-roses/. I immediately loved the simplicity of the design, the bold colours and the challenge of learning a new drawing technique would bring.

The class spent about half an hour  practicing the circle rose technique in their drawing books one afternoon. Were they ever focused. The following day, on a sheet of watercolour paper, with their practice roses in view, they set off to draw three large and three small roses. They added leaves and a few swirls before outlining their work in black sharpie.

They were most excited to bring their drawings to life with watercolour. With an assortment of reds, blues and greens (maybe a little pink and purple too for good measure) they painted their roses, leaves and backgrounds. The images below speak for themselves. Gorgeous. I cannot wait to see them as greeting cards.