Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee - Sinthia Cousineau

Bubble Wrap Bee Hive

Theme: Bees, printing, spring
Age: 8+
Technique: Acrylic, printing, tracing and drawing
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes

"Bees in a Hive" by Sinthia Cousineau

Materials

Acrylic Paint (Yellow, Orange, white)
Paint Roller
Bubble Wrap
Styrofoam Container
Carbon Tracing Paper
Pencil
Small Paint Brush
Black Sharpie
Mixed-Media Paper (Small)
Masking Tape

Project Steps

Step 1: Add first layer of Paint

Tape the edges of the paper to the table using masking tape.
With a roller, spread orange paint all over the paper and wait for it to dry. Do not put too much paint as it takes longer to dry.
Note: Sponge Rollers work best with kids as they dry faster.

Step 2: Add Yellow Paint to Bubble Wrap

As your waiting for the first layer of paint to dry, take a piece of bubble wrap (hexagon shaped for extra challenge) and with a roller add yellow paint to the surface with the bubbles.
Apply the bubble wrap to the paper and Presse gently on the surface to print the paint on the paper.
Print the bubble wrap all over the paper and wait to dry.
Once dry, you can remove the masking tape (gently to not rip paper).

Step 3: Trace or Draw several Bees

As your waiting for the paint to dry, practice tracing bees with carbon paper.
Once the paint is 100% dry, trace or draw the bees on the paper.
For the carbon paper, the dark side must touch the paper first, then place the image you wish to trace on top of it and trace with a tracing tool.

Step 4: Retrace the Lines with a Black Sharpie

Step 5 (optional): Paint in body and wings

Using white paint of the wings and yellow paint for the body strips, paint in the bees and wait for it to dry.

Step 6: Trace over the lines with a black sharpie

Use the black sharpie for the body of the bee and the smaller details.

Students working on Bee Paintings

Student Artworks

Age 9

Age 9

Age 11

Age 9

Age 9

Age 8

References

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