Henri Rousseau Dream Jungles

Does 2020 make you miss travel?  We are all spending a lot of time at home, and we can probably think about what it was like for this week's artist to dream of travel.  Henri Rousseau lived in Paris, and he spent his time painting thick, green jungles full of plants and animals from all over the world.  You would never know that he NEVER left France!  He was a toll collector and did not have money to travel.  He learned what he could from books or from gardens around the city, and he drew preserved animals that were in collections at museums.  Look at his work!  

As we paint a jungle this week, we will be investigating how Henri Rousseau was able to use green, green and more green!  How did he do that without making his picture a solid color?  He used TINTS and SHADES of green.  This means he made the paint lighter with white or darker with black to create more versions of green.

This week we will also learn to use our brush in different ways to get different shapes of leaves.  We will look at examples from Sumi-e painting, and we will practice using our brushes in new ways.

Let's make some jungles!  Watch this video to follow along with Ms. Ammons:

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