We didn't jet had real winter weather (at least not in the valley, the mountains are a little white) thus I didn't feel like winter crafting. But then I saw some mirrored silhouette picture on Instagram and had to try!
For the sky I tried another method I saw lately for watercolor painting with small children. You paint the watercolor on a plastic bag and then lay it on a wet piece of paper. This is first of all much fun and on the other hand it produces the most different and interesting color structures on the paper. I certainly have to color more paper with this technique!
This is what the kids of my crafting class made for background and below their finished pictures. It wasn't easy for them to cut the silhouettes with a knife, but except some accidental cuts in wrong directions it went well.
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The one with the wolf (hard to see, but it's the last in the row) inspired me to do myself a howling wolf. I wanted to place him on a hill. That wasn't a good idea as the trunks of the trees weren't oriented in the same direction as the tree silhouette, so I had to cheat a bit to get them straight.
I liked this art, but when seeing all the early flowers in my garden I don't really want to have snow in reality anymore!
A bientôt,
Jane
