Textured Fish Bowls

These underwater fish bowls can take awhile to create, but it covers a lot-- texture, watercolor resist, drawing, cutting and gluing.

Students cut out their own fish bowls (symmetry and math!), then draw their underwater habitat (science!) using crayon.  Everything is drawn in except water and fish.  They then do a watercolor wash over everything.  They do four texture rubbings using texture plates and crayon, and then create their fish from those rubbings.  I've done this before, using a "stained glass" effect where instead the fish are drawn into the scene, their fins are cut out and replaced with tissue paper.  That looks really neat as well :)