Mud and Zentangles!

For this unit, which included using mud, and creating zentangles, we did a few projects.  First, we played a little bit with the mud, to get used to the feel and to get ready for up coming projects.  To do this, we went outside our art trailer and painted the sidewalk how ever we like.

Zohara and I decided to paint my shadow!

We used different colored mud to give it a sort of feathery feel to it.

After doing this, we then experimented with colored mud, and painted the sidewalk, but we decided to be a little more creative with it so we painted these large rocks next to our classroom.  And they were also zentangles so they looked really cool.

(Zentangles are basically a bunch of crazy lines and shapes that make a big mess of patterns.)

After practicing the zentangles and working with the mud, we moved to our school's courtyard and painted the walls.

First, we started out painting the outline of my body, to make the shape of the first part of our zentangle.

We then painted inside of it, and created a zentangle.  But, that wasn't enough because we had to paint the whole entire wall that we picked, (which just so happened to be a very large one) so we continued on the outside.  We ended up filling in most of the wall, and making a pretty cool zentangle :)