Spooky House Halloween Art Lesson in Watercolor & Oil Pastel. This Halloween Art Lesson can be easily adapted for 2nd grade- up to 8th grade and created in various art mediums. Works perfectly homeschool and for remote teaching with whatever supplies students have on hand at home.
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MATERIALS: Watercolor Paper, Crayola Oil Pastels (black & yellow), Prang Watercolors, pencil & eraser, water cups, brush, paper towel
Draw a spooky house on watercolor paper. I gave students a few examples of houses. Start with the basic shape, a rectangle, or square. Then choose a triangular or rectangular roof. I showed them details they could add to the house; towers, a porch, a banister along the roof, etc. Then the windows and any details in the background, such as the moon, a tree, tombstones.
Start by coloring the moon and windows with yellow oil pastels.
Then start filling in the spooky house silhouettes with black oil pastel.
I give a complete demonstration of filling the Prang Watercolor paint pans with water, I stress the point that Watercolors do not work if you are not using enough water. I show how to create a wet into wet wash in the sky using 2 colors, and how to create clouds by dabbing the wet watercolor off with a paper towel.
*I limit it to 2 or 3 watercolors only. Any more than that turns into a mess.
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These paintings are great! Love the vibrant colors.
Thank you! It is a really fun project!
These paintings are great! Love the vibrant colors.
What a great project. Thanks for describing the steps so clearly. I love the silhouette against the watercolor sky. Pinning!
Thanks! I’m new to this whole blogging world, so I appreciate the feed back:)
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Thank you ElizabethE. I enjoyed your blog as well.
Love these! I want to try it with my 4th and 5th graders. Do they paint the sky before colouring in the house and moon etc?
Thanks Ashlyn. This is a wax resist with watercolor. So they color in the house & moon with oil pastel first and then paint the background with watercolor. I just this year stated using liquid watercolors and the colors are super vibrant. I’m excited to use them for this project.
Ok thanks, just wanted to make sure we are doing it right! They drew their haunted houses today and they turned out great.
I just bought some liquid watercolors to use. Do you use them just as you would tempera paint?- As in, put some on a dish and paint with them? Should we wet the water colour paper first? Thanks again for your help and your wonderful blog!!
The liquid watercolors I bought were so intense that I diluted them first. I pour them into little cups and use them just as you would paint on watercolor. Have fun Ashlyn.
Can you tell us step by step direction! Love this idea, I plan on doing it with 4th grade.
Love this. Curious what size is the watercolor paper?
I cut down large sheets of 18×24 watercolor paper to 9 1/2×12.
Very fun art lesson. Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be using it with my 6/7 class.
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These are cool!