Folk Art Witch

This is a Halloween version of my Folk Art Angel.















MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- heavy paper for background, I used watercolour paper
- masking tape
- disk tempera paint
- white acrylic or liquid tempera paint
- paper for painting, I used an old book page
- raffia for brown
- strip of brown paper
- oil pastels
- glue

PROCEDURE:

I taped my background paper to my art board.  Using disk tempera paint I painted a night sky using blue and black.

When background is dry take white acrylic or liquid tempera and mix in a little water.

Using an old stiff brush dip in paint and then flick finger over the bristles to create star splatter.

At school I like to do this in a box to cut down on the mess.

Paint some paper with purple and orange tempera.  We will use these papers to create the witch body and head.

I decided I wanted a pattern on the dress so using some purple acrylic, the end of a pencil and the cap from a spray bottle I stamped on the pattern.

To make the paper for the hat and the legs I first used oil pastel.  White stars for the hat and black lines for the legs.

I then painted over them with disk tempera.

When the papers are dry I start to put my witch together.  The body starts as a rectangle, I then cut one of the corners off.

The arm is a skinny rectangle with a corner cut off.  The head is a pumpkin shape.

The legs are just 2 strips.  I also cut out a witch hat.  With the scraps of orange paper I cut 2 feet and a hand.

The broom is made from a strip of brown paper for the handle.  I wrap a pipe cleaner around the middle of some raffia.  I fold it and then twist the pipe cleaner around the top.

Glue into place.

Finally with some pencil crayons and sharpie I add the details to the face.

I added a strip to the hat and a star sticker.

That's it, my Folk Art witch.



Gail

Clay Witches and Wizards

Grade 4 completed these clay witches and wizards for Halloween today.

I think they did an awesome job and they were quite pleased with themselves.

You start by rolling out a slab of clay and then roll it into an ice cream cone shape.  Trim off the excess and make sure to score and moisten the pieces that you are "gluing" together.

We then placed a 1/2 sheet of scrunched up newspaper into the hollow part of the cone so that our witches and wizards held their shape while we worked on them.  I kept the paper in place for a week while they were drying.

The kids then pinched out a face, scored in a division line between the face and hat, and added hair.

The also attached two arms by rolling out a rope shape and wrapping it around the back.

We had our hands cupped in front to hold the marble at the end.

I let them dry out for 2 weeks and then bisque fired them (cone 4).  We opted to glaze ours but you could paint with acrylics instead if you wished.

They were then glaze fired (cone 6) and I glued a marble in place with the hot glue gun.

That's it.  I'm so glad we timed it right for Halloween and we had another successful project with no casualties in the kiln...... woohoo!!!






See you next time.