In the City

City Scape

We had a little time and CJ made one of her favorite pictures
... a night time city scape.
First draw out the buildings of varying heights and widths on a sheet of paper.
Carefully cut it out into two pieces, KEEP BOTH.
Lay a sheet of dark construction paper down and place the
"bottom" of the city on top...
we should have use painter's tape to keep it from moving...

Get out some coloured chalk... we have chalk pastels... and
a scrap of paper. Scribble, scribble to make some colored dust...

Load your finger with the dust, start on the cut out city
and brush up, up, up...

Take off the "bottom" city and cover the chalking you just did with
the "top" of the city.
This is where we really should have use the tape so it didn't slide.
Pick a second colour of chalk, make dust and this time
brush down, down, down...

Take off the "top city"... add some windows with an oil pastel...

Display your art work very proudly for all of blog world and family...

If CJ's picture didn't slip it would have turned out better... no matter.
It looks like the city is a blaze
but with different colours you can get different effects.
It will look just like the city at night...
Of course, CJ & CD are rarely up past dark so they'll just have to take my word for it!