Step 1:

Start with a piece of A3 paper or card or 2 pieces of A4 white card and stick it together on it’s short end to make A3 size.

Take a piece of card the size of your palm and fold it in half.

Cut half a shape of a leaf with scissors and bend back.

Use a sponge, and put several colours of acrylic paint in a palette and dip your sponge and print on the A3 white card.

Completed Autumn sceve which may take about 3 sessions:

Step 2:

Make the sponge prints of leaves randomly all over the paper using a variety and mix of yellow, orange, red, and green acrylic paint. Don’t use water mixing the paint as this will dilute the colour and make the paper extra wet.

Step 3:

Take a brown piece of A4 or A3 size card and draw around your hand spreading your fingers. Cut around the outline carefully with scissors and put PVA glue on the back, leaving the thumb without glue so that the purple tree can be tucked underneath..

When the paint is dry place onto the white paper off centre slightly to the left.

Step 4:

Take a piece of purple card and draw your hand again with a black marker, cut around it leaving the marker line, and cut out carefully.

Place towards blind the brown tree in the middle of the paper.

Step 5:

Take a piece of green card too and draw around your hand, cut and paste onto the paper this this time over the brown.

Step 6:

Take yellow, orange, red, purple green paper/card and perhaps any other colour thats earthy/Autumn tone and fold in half. Use your scissors carefully to cut oval shapes like leaves that are the length of your fingers.

Step 7:

When a selection for leaves have been cut from the different colours its time to choose where to place and glue them.

It’s recommended to place an assortment of all colours over the brown tree.

Try not to put green leaves over the green tree or purple leaves over the purple tree as the colour contrast will not be so effective.

Step 8:

Overlap different leaf colours for contrast.

Eg: red/ green, then add yellow paint with brush over the green.

Step 9:

Draw on white lines with white paint sticks for bright contrast for outlines and wood grain effects.

Use black lines with black pen or black paint sticks for contrast too.

Step 10:

Robin:

Use a completely different background colour paper or card such as blue.

Draw a picture of a robin using black pen. use red acrylic paint and a bit of yellow as shown here with paint brush.

Paste onto blue paper/card and place to the left and above or below the centre of the image if possible for composition.