Exploring the Jungle of Rousseau

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist who loved to paint jungles.

The second graders have been learning about tints and shades of colors.  They made value scales before mixing lots of greens to use in a fun jungle painting.  They have also been learning the various techniques that are possible with round brushes vs. those with flat brushes.  They experimented to find new shapes the brushes could make, and they practiced some techniques I taught them.  They used Henri Rousseau as inspiration as they filled their papers with jungle plants and animals.  They were able to use oil pastels for the animals on top of the dried tempera.  Here are some images of the happy artists, some samples of their work, and a link to the website they used in class to read about Rousseau and to make digital jungle pictures! 

Biography and Jungle Art Game

Stella, Grade 2

Mallory R, Grade 2

Ruby, Grade 2

Monty, Grade 2

Maureen, Maria and Jaeden are experimenting with tints and shades of green

Daniel uses a round brush to practice long, thin brushstrokes.

Kimani invented some new species of plants.