Haiku Art/Water color
Submitted by: Barbara D. Martin
Materials:
cup of water
box of watercolors and wide brush
white construction paper, 9” x 12”
1. Dip the construction paper under the water, covering the front completely with water, but wet only the front.
2. Dip your brush into the water, and put a wash of water on the water color(s) you want to use. If you wish to use more than one color, start with the lighter colors first.
3. Paint the colors on your paper, adding water and colors as you like. don’t let the paper get too dry--you want a wash--and don’t go over and over the same spot--the paper will fall apart.
4. Place the paper on a flat surface and let it dry. While the paper is drying, make your Silhouette
Materials:
white copy paper
pencil
scissors
stapler
black construction paper
1. Draw a simple picture on the white paper with your pencil. The outline of it should clearly be recognizable, and should have to do with the haiku that you have written.
2. When you are happy with your picture, staple it about an inch away from the lines onto your black construction paper.
3. Carefully cut out your picture along the lines, making sure that the curves are even and smooth.
4. When the water color paper is dry, glue the picture to it.
Haiku
Materials:
your teacher checked haiku
scissors
thin black marking pen
1. Write your haiku down the way you want it on lined paper.
2. Cut off the paper to the top of the first line of your haiku.
3. Put the haiku where you want it on your paper and copy the first line of your haiku with marking pen right above the words you have written on the lined paper.
4. Cut off the first line of your poem, carefully put the haiku back on your water color, and copy the second line.
5. Repeat step 4 for the third line.
6. Sign your name under your haiku.
7. Turn in your paper.