Butterfly

Let’s try an art project with a glass stained effect. Here, “In the midst of leaves”.

For Mimi by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Step by step:

Paper, scissors, black pastel

Your materials:

White drawing paper, black pastel, a pair of scissors and a dry and wet tissue for cleaning up.

Folding a drawing paper in half

Fold your paper

  1. Fold your paper in half.
Start drawing on the paper

Draw

2.Where your fold is, draw a half butterfly.

Using a black pastel on the drawing

Identify the parts

3.While you draw, it’s good if you can name the different parts of their body. (Check “Butterfly Parts” below)

Unfolding the paper

Unfold your paper

4.As you unfold, you can see your half-drawn butterfly.

folding the drawing paper again

Fold your paper again

5.With the half butterfly in, fold your paper.

Rubbing the paper with scissors

Rub the paper

6.With the back of a pair of scissors, rub your paper.

unfolding the paper after the rub

Unfold it again

7.As you unfold the paper, see a whole butterfly.

Tracing the pattern

Trace

8.Make the form clearer by tracing the pattern made from rubbing the paper.

Add leaves drawing around

Draw your leaves

9.Draw leaves around the butterfly.

Darkening the drawing with pastel

Darken with pastel

10.With a black pastel, darken your pencil drawing of the leaves.

Painting the drawing

Paint

11.Color your butterfly with any colors you like.

Coloring the leaves

Color the leaves

12.Use a thin brush to color your leaves so the dark pastel marking will not be covered.

Butterfly Project is done

Hi Butterfly!

The butterfly project is done.

cleaning the pastel markings

Cleaning up

Minimize the messy black markings by wiping a dry tissue all over it, and a wet tissue or cloth around your work area.

another butterfly project

Another One!

My first project looks a little funny, don’t you think so? I made another one. Do you like it better?