The illustrations of Ezra Jack Keats in The Snowy Day inspire young artists to examine shapes in illustrations and to use these shapes to create their own watercolor resist painting.

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visual and performing arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Model for participants how to identify shapes within a work by covering the transparency of one painting and outlining the geometric forms
• Ask individuals to create their own storytelling resist illustration for a familiar fairy tale

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson assumes that instructors are familiar with and can communicate to young artists the concepts of negative space, composition, line, cohesiveness, and theme
• Although the lesson calls for a studio, the work could easily be done in a regular classroom

 

Pros

• An engaging way to combine literature and art

Cons

• The discussion of the artist features of the activity would need to be revised for younger learners