Objectives: Students will create a fall scene using the monoprinting method.

They will create simple space, the foreground and the background using one line. What You Need:

one piece of 80lb white paper 12x18 brushes water newspaper tempera paint (full palette) watered down blue tempera or blue watercolor crayons

What You Do: 1. Fold the 12 x 18 white paper the long way "hotdog" way 2. On the middle fold going up, draw a series of trees using the "Y" method. Draw a straight line for the trunk and then a "V" in the middle so it looks like a "Y". Branch off drawing with "V"'s from there. Keep the tree very simple and varied. Have some tall and some bending. Try to work them across the paper until it is full of trees. 3. The space below is the water which will reflect the trees. 4. Once you've drawn the trees, fold the paper back again, and with a ruler edge rub the trees so that the crayon transfers to the bottom (water area).

5. Next, taking dabs of autumn colors work one tree at a time, dotting the branches and then bending the paper to create the blob on the bottom, Continue doing so, until you've got a autumn look. 6. I then have kids take the watered down tempera and fill in blue area, sky and water. *Some children will want to draw in more, they will need to do before painting* I double matt these in fall colors around a festive board... always beautiful to look at. Author/Instructor Biography: Pat Higgins has taught elementary art K-6 for l6 years and is still going strong!!! Pat has also taught JR High and SR High. Pat is a practicing artist/watercolorist and loves to surf the web for new and exciting info, to use in the classroom.