For the second project of the year, all of the classes will be making a glow in the dark sea creature! We will be using glow in the dark paint and neon oil pastels to make our sea creatures come to life. At the end of the year art gallery, we will display all of the glow in the dark sea creatures in our very own Glow Gallery!
(Photo courtesy of Cassie Stephens' blog)
Each grade will do a different sea creature. The first graders will be doing a clown fish.
Supplies:
- Rectangular watercolor paper
- Neon/florescent oil pastels
- Black marker
- Pencil
- Florescent watercolor (only a few drops needed for each student)
- Paint trays for watercolors
- Paint brushes
- Water bowls with sponge
- Baby wipes
Please note that we used regular oil pastels and not neon, so the example picture might look a little different. Try to save a few minutes for at the end of class to turn the lights off in the classroom and turn on the black lights that are in the art closet (or they may already be plugged in around the room). The kids will love getting to see their art projects glow! The squeals of delight will be worth it! ;)
1. Write student's name and teacher's name on the back of paper.
2. Turn paper over and have it be vertical on their desk.
3. With your pencil we will make 3 dots with a pencil. One in the center of the page, one in the upper center about one hand from the edge of the paper, and another in the lower center about one hand from the edge of the paper.
4. Now switch to black marker
5. Measure 3-4 fingers to the right side of the center dot and make your first eyeball. Draw one large circle with the smaller circle inside. Do the same on the left side of the dot.
6. From the top middle of each eyeball draw a slightly curved line up to the top center dot to create a point.
7. From the bottom middle of each eyeball draw a curved line to connect at the bottom center dot. (The top lines will come to a point, the bottom lines will connect like a narrow semi circle)
9. Now to make the fins-top fin first. To one side of the pointed head draw a small semi circle and make a few lines inside for fin texture.
10. Do the same for the lower fins on each side of the fish
11. Put the black marker away
12. Pick up a green oil pastel
13. Add some seaweed by drawing a wavy line up and coming back down to create a “worm” looking piece of seaweed. Do a few of these on each side and color them in.
15. Now pick 2 oil pastel colors for your fish. (Most clown fish only have 2 colors). One will be for the stripes and the other will be the main color of the body of your fish.
16. Use a marker to draw the stripes, leaving room in the middle to color in. This is a signature of a clown fish. Color in the stripes with one of your oil pastels.
17. Now we are going to move on to coloring our clown fish in with oil pastels. Oil pastels are so fun and different to use than crayons. You don't need to push hard with the oil pastels and you also don't need to color the entire thing in so there is no white showing. After you color a little bit, you can blend with your fingers. (Baby wipes need to be passed out during this time so students can wipe their fingers off as they go and change colors).
18. Switch to watercolor
19. Each student will have a few drops of liquid watercolor in their paint tray. (These need to be prepped before the class starts and then you can pass them out when it comes time to use them).
20. First step is to get your brush wet with WATER ONLY.
21. Paint that water all around all around one side of the fish where the white paper is still showing.
22. Then dip the paintbrush into the liquid water color and paint it on top of all of the water.
23. Do the same on the other side of the fish, starting with plain water first
24. Using a few different colors for the ocean to create movement and depth.
25. Next if you would like to add neon splatter to your clown fish, take turns taking your painting to the spray station and one of the volunteers will help you spray your picture. The neon yellow stands out the best, but the other colors look great, too! Volunteers please make sure to carefully shake up the spray bottles of paint as the paint tends to settle on the bottom.
Your clown fish is complete! Great job!
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