Hispanic Heritage Month is alive within our art room, and we continue to celebrate as second and third graders through creating our own bark art paintings!
Bark paintings originally came from Mexico, more specifically the Aztec people! Students learned about the process of preparing a piece of bark for painting that the Aztecs used and that these bark paintings were typically of celebrations, or things the Aztecs valued and enjoyed.
Students first drew their chosen image with a black marker then used Q-tips to paint in their image. Students only had red, blue, yellow, and white paint to use so they had to think through mixing the green, orange, and purple that were in so many of their paintings!
It's often the painting portion which students claim is their favorite part of a project, but surprisingly polls showed students really enjoyed balling and crumpling up their paper before starting to give it the bark like texture was a favorite moment!
R.O.A.R to my classes for being so responsible while using paint!
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