Henri Rousseau Inspired Tigers
Ross’ class came to the art room today and created Henri Rousseau inspired tiger artworks, just like Thena’s class had done a few weeks earlier. I really enjoy teaching this lesson, I love how the many artistic elements come together to create the expressive jungle scenes.
To create these artworks the students spent the morning painting, spongeing and dyeing paper. They painted the background using a dry brush technique to add texture and give the impression of vines in the jungle. Next they used crayon to draw patterns on newspaper which they then dyed and cut out into leaf shapes.
To make the tiger the students painted paper and dabbed it with a dry sponge to suggest the texture of fur. After studying images of tigers and doing a lot of practice the students drew their tiger faces with oil pastels.
Finally the students decided on the composition of a tiger hiding in the jungle. They layered the pieces that they had made to construct their artworks and glued them together. I really love the expressions on the faces on the tigers, I hope you like them as much as I do.
