Paint- Galaxy

Description: For this lesson, we explored paint. The first thing we did was go through and practice the different types of paint techniques. The paint techniques are flat wash, graded wash, crayon resist, scraffito, wet-n-wet, and salt. Most of these paint techniques were new to me. I have not really heard of a lot of these paint techniques. After practicing each technique, we then made our own galaxy and had to have some of the paint techniques in the painting. One paint technique I used was the salt one. I also used the wet-n-wet, crayon resist, and flat wash techniques. I added some stars and Big Dipper in the painting. I also added mountains. The colors I used in the painting were blue, purple, and black. 

Extension Activity: To add to this lesson, they could also have the students add some different texture to the painting. They could use cotton balls for clouds and etc. I could incorporate this into my class, and have the students make one of these for the hallway outside the classroom. It can be a hallway project. I could also incorporate this into my class when we are talking about the sky and its features in science.