We have been learning so much about the author/illustrator Eric Carle. We have been learning about how he creates his illustrations. He paints lots of paper or tissue using many different colors. He also uses tools to give the paintings some texture. When he makes a picture, he uses pieces of lots of different painted paper and creates his characters and backgrounds by making collages. We decided to give his technique a try by making our own grouchy ladybugs.
We started by painting some plain white paper red and using plastic forks to texturize the paint. We needed to let these dry overnight and then lay them out flat.
Once the paper was dry and flat, we cut out the red paper to make the ladybug's body. Mrs. Kurt also took photos of us making our grouchy faces and Mr. Frid in the computer lab helped us print the photos. We cut out our faces and added them to the ladybug bodies.
We added some legs to the ladybugs, too.
Of course, everyone knows that lady bugs have spots. We added black spots by finger painting.
Once the paint dried, I hung these cute bugs in our classroom. Good work, artists!
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