2nd grade artists learned about Amate bark paintings. Amate is a way of making paper, done for centuries by Mexican Indians. Amate paper is made by cooking the inner bark of different trees. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Nahua Indians of Mexico started making Amate paintings as a form of Folk Art, especially in order to exchange and sell them to tourists.
Amate Bark Paintings show scenes of Mexican countryside's such as weddings, wild flowers, animals and birds.
2nd grade artists started with pencil first and drawing a border around the paper. They could choose from a bumpy, curvy or zig zag line. Then, they drew a big tropical bird, a branch for the bird to sit/stand on, leaves and flowers. After drawing, they traced it in black Sharpie then started coloring. The border and tree branch is colored in construction paper crayon and the bird, leaves and flowers were painted with fluorescent paint. Finally, when the painting was dry, they traced back over their sharpie lines and added details.
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