Kindergarten - Bird paintings - Learning various painting techniques

Kindergarten students learned three different painting techniques in this specific lesson:
the tap and turn, smooth, and scraping technique.
Each technique builds on, and sharpens the painting and creativity skills.
This lesson shows the young artists that a brush can do more than just paint in one style.

Students traced bird stencils, then painted smoothly with tempera paint.
All classes learn how to utilize a paint palette and a water cup
like any professional painter would.
I encourage the students to "take the paint form the edges", so as to not
mess up your colors.
The results are noticeable in the use of various colors on all aspects of the paintings.
Students begin to challenge themselves to make all variations of colors,
not just mush the colors all together.

While the paint is wet, turn the paintbrush over to the other side,
and scrape the thick paint away.

Using a tap and turn technique, students load their brush with more than one color,
then tap and turn the brush on their paper.
Each time the brush taps the paper, colors mix, and give the feeling of texture.
We painted a sky, and some flowers the birds were flying over.

Thank you to the classroom teachers who did a great job
mounting the birds on bright colored paper.