Fall Foliage With a Side of Spaghetti!

Our second art class was a quick review of colors from the week before…specifically, mixing red and yellow. Using a premature turning leaf that showed green, yellow, orange and red all on the same leaf, we talked about how nature shows us how new colors emerge from blending them.

Using trees as our subject, I demonstrated how to draw a tree using a “Y” as a starting point, then adding “V”s to make the tree stretch up to the sky. The kids used brown markers and drew the tree trunks and then we were ready to fill in the foliage.

To make it interesting, we used bundles of dry spaghetti dipped into acrylic paint and then gently filled in the tops of the trees giving their foliage a pixelated look.

We showed off our beautiful fall scenes using different perspectives. Some simple and basic, some overlapping, some with vanishing points, and some from a vantage point of looking up at towering trees filled with color and light.

You couldn’t find more beautiful fall foliage anywhere!