The first step the student's took was to paint warm colored stripes of watercolors on a single sheet of paper, then cool colored stripes on another.
After the watercolor stripes were completed, I passed out pictures of mosques that are in our town of Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Students chose which pictures to draw from and began their drawings on graph paper. The graph paper lines allowed them to draw straight even lines with correct proportions on their buildings.
When their drawings were finished, we cut them out and placed them on the completed warm colored striped paper. We traced our buildings and cut those out as well, adding details with a black sharpie marker.
Students then cut out their cool colored stripes and glued them onto a black background. The warm colored mosque was then glued on top, with a few accents of glittered stars in the background.
Although there were many steps involved, the students did a fantastic job. All the mosques looked unique and different as the students were able to decorate them individually. Parents and teachers alike enjoyed them at our first annual art show this past week at IPS!
