Painting with coffee! Baby bobcat

Here is a super fun drawing activity you can paint with instant coffee!

Materials:

You will need some instant coffee, paint brush, water, sharpie

1. put two teaspoons of coffee in each cup

2. Add one teaspoon of water to the first cup and three teaspoons of water in the other cup so you have a dark brown and a light brown

3. Draw your favorite stuffed animal or follow steps below to draw the bobcat

4. Look for value (dark to light) and paint the drawing with your coffee mixtures!

start in the middle with a small nose, the add an unside down letter "Y"

 Add two lines to the top of the nose and bring the sides of the mouth up a little to make a smile

Add a fuzzy chin and draw two curved lines from the lines above the nose down to the chin

 darken the top of the muzzle with black and add two curved lines off each side

Darken the curved lines down to the mouth and add two eyes TOUCHING THE BLACK part 

Add two tiny shineys and then two large black pupils

Draw the top of his head pretty far up, and add rounded triangle ears

bring the lines down from the top of the head and make a furry face with zigzag lines all the way around the face

Add some fur to the tips of the ears and draw a trapazoid shape for his chest

draw two lines down from the sides of the head and bring them up to the bottom corners of the trapazoid

add a curved line to the bottom of the feet and a seam in the middle. Add two back legs behind the front legs

Darken the ears black and add spots to the head and legs

Use the coffee to paint the bobcat. Be sure to leave his neck, chest, tiny shineys and around the mouth white.

BE SURE TO SEND YOUR ART to smARTclassblog@gmail.com to be featured in the next blog!

Bobcats with Chalk Pastels

We are talking about predators and drew these bobcats this week. We talk about all the parts of the face and how he has spots AND stripes. We looked at the white around his eyes, the football shaped pupils, and the fur on the tips of his ears. We watched the videos below to see real bobcats.

We looked at bobcat art!

In the first video you can see the bobcat is surrounded by feathers. We talked about how bobcats are a nuisance to farmers, killing their chickens, but that the farmer was going to set him free somewhere far away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsHYEL1mrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCfE6j9rss

Each student could draw the bobcat however they wanted. Then we used the chalk pastels to color them. We talked about value and blending.

I just love how this student drew his hiding in the grass!

Love the big eyes!

I made this as an example after the student above drew his in the grass. I wanted kids to see that they could draw him from different perspectives and that their drawings don’t always have to fit on the page or be in the middle! If you would like a copy of the lesson plan, just shoot me an email Natty241@hotmail.com

Next…..Gnomes!!