This art lesson teaches kids how to paint an ocean wall mural in a sink area in the art room, a kindergarten room or even in their bathroom. Painting murals is fun and a group project that kids can easily do. Materials, procedures and hints for an ocean mural and other murals are easy to follow.
Water World Ocean Mural
Introduction
This article is a simple art lesson on painting an ocean wall mural in a small sink area in a bathroom. Kids can reclaim an uninteresting small space when they add a painted mural to it. It works well on an art room wall near the sink area. Kindergarten rooms that have a sink or bathroom in them would be a great place to apply this wall mural idea.
Materials:
- House paint (semi-gloss) or acrylic paint - several different blues, white, green, purple, pink, black and beige or whatever colors desired
- Paintbrushes – 1 inch wide
- Sponges or cheesecloth
- Clear sealer spray or polyeurathane
Procedure:
Step 1 – Preparing the Students
Show various examples of wall murals to students from the internet or by walking along a guided field trip in your town of local mural artists. Images from ocean pictures or movies will show the various colors and sea life to paint in a mural. Wyland is a famous environment artist of ocean wall murals. His goal was to paint 100 whaling walls by 2011.
Images of his artwork can be found at: http://seapics.com/feature-subject/photographers/wyland-001.html
Seeing this artist paint all over the world with children will inspire students to believe they can also paint murals.
Step 2 – Paint the Background
Clean and wash the background wall to be painted. For a sink area, scrub away any toothpaste, soap or paint finish on the wall. Paint in a wavy motion with various blues, greens and whites. Have students paint in the same direction. Show them how to mix the colors on separate trays or as they are painted on the wall.
Step 3 – Paint in the Sand and Plant Life
Have students paint in an upwards motion the green seaweed, red, pink and purple coral, grey rocks and various plant life. Use light strokes and try to spread the colors in different areas. Have one student paint all the plants, then the next student add the color in some of the areas, followed by another student using paint in other areas. Layer the plant life in this way.
Paint the sea bottom in beiges, greys, greens or browns in a swirling motion if on a flat surface. Paint on the counter or at the bottom of the wall. Teach the students to think outside the box by painting outside of the sink area.
Ocean Mural Brings Life to Sink Area
Step 4 – Paint in the Sea Life
Use tiny strokes of black to paint in schools of fish. If painting a larger creature such as a large whale, turtle or ray, paint the outline and background of the creature. Try to keep the sea life in proportion to the plant life on the background. Use the mural to teach about perspective and proportion. Younger students will feel more comfortable with painting images of schools of fish rather than detailed larger sea life. Older students should plan and paint fish with much detail. Students should choose what they would like to attempt to paint in the wall mural.
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