Snowmen at Night

Snowmen at Night by Caralyn and Mark Buehner is an imaginative winter rhyming book about what snowmen do in the evening when we are all in bed! I began class by reading this book and then we discussed some of the illustrations. We talked about how the illustrator painted the objects that are further away smaller and objects close up bigger. We briefly reviewed complimentary colors again as well as Van Gogh's style of how to create movement or wind in Starry Starry Night. Students used oil pastels to create a large, close up snowman portrait complete with patterned scarves, buttons and hats. Then they worked on the background imagery making objects further away smaller, creating movement in the style of Van Gogh and perhaps adding evening stars and a moon.


I love the movement in the snowman's hair on this one!