Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner is such a creative story with incredible illustrations. It is also a great jumping off point for snowmen paintings! After reading the story, we talked about the illustrations and how we could see colors in the white of the snowmen. The students then drew snowmen in action with oil pastels. They were encouraged to add lots of colors as an underpainting layer. When ready, each artist added the final "snow" layer with white tempera paint. Snowflakes were added with a q-tip. The only glitch I ran into with this project, is that some of the great details students wanted were painted over. To remedy this, artists redrew the eyes, mouth and nose, and added scarves, gloves etc with oil pastel once the paint was dry.
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