Vases of beautiful, bright sunflowers provided inspiration for some observational drawing in art class. Looking carefully at the shapes and colors of the flowers and in some cases the stems in water in the vases, the students filled their papers with large sunflowers, colored them with oil pastels and painted backgrounds with tempera paint. The resulting discovery of oil resisting water added to their enthusiasm. When done with these pictures the students looked at the very tall sunflowers growing outside the Pre-K 4 classroom. They worked with green and yellow paper to make their own tall versions that will be part of a group collage greeting all who enter the front lobby.
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| Observing and drawing |
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| Adding paint over oil pastels |
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| Careful coloring of the dark center |
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| Petals cut and glued |
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| Overlapping petals around the dark center |
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| Gluing flower petals |
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| A finished picture |
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| More finished pictures |
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| One group of sunflowers |
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| A large wooly bear |
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| Beginning a monarch caterpillar |
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| Painting with liquid watercolors |
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| Careful application with a very small brush |
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