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Halloween Video Tutorial How to Draw & Watercolor Paint a Haunted House
Are you looking for fun and engaging Fall Season, October, or Halloween Art projects to share with your students? I’m excited to offer this 8 project Halloween Sunset BIG BUNDLE that was designed especially for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. Drawing and watercolor painting lessons inc
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Are you looking for fun and engaging Halloween art projects to share with your students? I’m excited to offer this 4 project Halloween BUNDLE that was designed for students in 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4th grade. Drawing and watercolor painting projects included in this Bundle: Ghost &
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Are you looking for an activity that will help your students celebrate Halloween, the Month of October, or the Fall & Autumn Season? Consider adding an art project! I’m happy to offer this fully narrated Haunted House directed drawing and watercolor painting video art lesson that was designed especially for students in 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade.
This video tutorial demonstrates the necessary steps to complete this low-prep art project. Use this project as supplemental learning in Art, Science, Math, Literature, Social Studies, SEL, Language Arts, or History themes. This art project offers a fun and engaging opportunity to incorporate students’ artistic literacy and innate love of hands-on experimentation into a core curriculum unit of study. To enhance student comprehension, consider turning your STEM unit into a STEAM unit with the addition of this art project.
This digital resource is Distance Learning Supported. Videos may be paused, fast-forwarded, or reversed as needed. Excellent resource to use for sub plans and to display as classroom decor. Use completed projects to brighten up your walls and bulletin boards or to give as a unique gift to parents. Need a class incentive reward or a party day activity? Consider an art project 🙂
UPDATE: Please see details below for instructions about how to access and view this video.
Did you know? Creating art is a great way for students to gain self confidence, tap into their natural curiosity, learn about the world around them, practice mindfulness and calming strategies, and understand connections between themselves and their environment. The social-emotional learning benefits of creating art are significant.
How to use this resource: simply supply your students with the necessary art materials, display the video in your classroom or homeschool, and watch as your students create this drawing and painting project right before your eyes!
Designed with beginners in mind, this project is perfectly suited for students in first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade. By following along with me, step-by-step, your students will learn the skills to create masterpieces of their own long after the project is complete.
The process used to teach this project is a kid-tested, step-by-step method that will inspire and delight your students into drawing and painting action! This process involves observing, following instructions, and creating until each student is happy with the outcome.
Students will learn basic drawing and watercolor painting techniques and apply these techniques to complete this project. This project is designed to give students the tools they need to begin their artistic journey into self-expression, reflection, and creative thinking.
Supplies and materials needed for this project:
- Heavy White Paper (Watercolor Paper Works Great!)
- Watercolor or Tempera Cake Paints
- Paintbrushes
- Permanent Marker
- Bowl of Water
- Paper Towels
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If you like this project, you’ll also love:
Master Artist Project Bundle: Here
Diego Rivera Project: Here
Paul Klee Project: Here
Van Gogh Project: Here
Pablo Picasso Project: Here
Wassily Kandinsky Project: Here
Henri Matisse Project: Here
Georgia O’Keeffe Project: Here
Yayoi Kusama Project: Here
Frida Kahlo Project: Here
Romero Britto Project: Here
There are two ways to view this video art project: stream directly from the TpT site, or access video via private link on Vimeo, a video hosting platform.
*To download art project access instructions, simply click on the ‘Download’ button in the Supporting Document box above this description. The ‘Download’ button will lead you to instructions that include a special link. Click on the link, and you will then have access to the art project video. This is an unlisted, ad-free video that is hosted on Vimeo.
Halloween Greeting Card Watercolor Tutorial
Send spooky Halloween greetings with this greeting card watercolor tutorial by artist Mou Saha. Happy Halloween!
Recommended Materials:
Fold your paper to create a card of your chosen size. Mine is about 5×7 inches.
Lightly sketch a jack-o-lantern with a body using a Goldfaber Graphite Sketch Pencil.
Color the background with the watercolor pan shade of 280 – Burnt Umber.
Paint the pumpkin with watercolor pan shades #109 Dark Chrome Yellow, #111 Cadmium Orange, #113 Orange Glaze and #117 Light Cadmium Red.
Add details with watercolor pan shades #280 Burnt Umber, #234 Cold Grey V and #199 Black.
Continue to add details to finish. Hand-letter the phrase Happy Halloween with watercolor pan shade of 199.
Create fun Halloween greetings with your Faber-Castell Watercolor Pan!
Halloween Watercolor Project
Once you have your skull printed you can tape it up to a window to trace or free hand it onto your watercolor paper.
I was inspired to add these flowers to my skull from a recent class I took through the Crafter’s Box. If you like getting crafty you need to check them out!
Once you have your skull drawn out on your paper you can begin to apply your masking fluid. Masking fluid is often used in watercolor paintings to help shield the white of the paper from getting any pigment on it. This is where your cheap brush or masking nib comes in. Masking fluid WILL RUIN your nice brushes, so don’t use those for this part. The fluid will clump up on the brush as you use it. Make sure to clean your brush every couple of minutes and keep the lid on the bottle when you are not using it.
Trace your pencil lines with the masking fluid. When you have completed that step you will need to tape your paper down to a solid surface. I use blue painters tape, but you can use artist tape if you like. They both work great!
You can use any color you like for this part. I chose black, but any Halloweenish color would work! You can do this two ways. Wet the entire paper and do your wash wet on wet OR get your paint ready and do smooth strokes over the dry paper. I did wet on dry so I could get a fun edge around my piece. I can’t wait to see what YOU do!
When you are done painting and it is dry, you can start to peel off your masking fluid. Use your fingers or an artist eraser to peel it up. You can also use the eraser to remove some of your pencil lines. Be careful not to rub off your paint.
Now for Option 2!
Trace your skull like before, or use it as a reference to draw onto your watercolor paper. Use a sharpie to draw over your pencil lines. THEN it is time to paint!
Paint three to five circles on your skull near the flowers on the upper right side of the paper. Let each circle dry before painting another one if you don’t want the colors to mix.
Now you have some fun spooky art to hang up this Halloween!!
I hope you enjoy these simple tutorials and can get crafty with your bad self this fall!!
Lynn Muir is a blogger at Pocketful of Paint Blog and co-owns The Makers Avenue. She lives in Utah with her husband and their 5 crazy fun kids. You can find her on her blog HERE or on Instagram by clicking HERE. Lynn loves to craft, DIY, talk about real life and most importantly laugh A LOT!
Here are a few more free printables for Halloween:
- I’ve Got My EYES On You Tags
- No Tricks Just Treats Tags
- Out of Treats Free Printable
