Colorful Abstract Winter Trees. "Art Projects for Kids" has a wonderful and simple abstract winter tree lesson.
I decided to add the extra element of decoupaging colored tissue for the trees. After a rectangle of tissued posterboard is dry, it can be cut into the triangle tree shapes. These are glued onto watercolor paper that has been divided using oil pastel or crayon and then watercolor washed into three different sections as well as a foreground. With an oil pastel lines and "v" shapes can be drawn on the trees. Lastly a hole puncher is used to add the white snowfall effect. June 2010. Tree Of Life. The above piece was created by a very talented 9 year old.
It looks a lot like an Aboriginal dot painting to me. All your patience payed off Alison - Beautiful! I have done a few art projects based on Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life painted in 1909. There is something so wonderfully decadent and luxurious about his gold leaf tree full of spirals and swirls decorated with jewel-like forms.