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Whimsy Construction Vehicles on Textural Backgrounds - Art for Kids and Playful Adults

teacher avatar Stella and Martin Anderle, Artist and Musician,

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Presentation

      2:36

    • 2.

      Materials

      1:52

    • 3.

      Class Project

      0:28

    • 4.

      Warm-up 1: Shape Hunt Game

      3:20

    • 5.

      Warm-up 2: Carnival of Shapes

      1:42

    • 6.

      Drawing a Tractor

      5:52

    • 7.

      Painting the Tractor

      4:20

    • 8.

      Drawing a Bulldozer

      5:30

    • 9.

      Painting the Bulldozer

      5:00

    • 10.

      Drawing an Excavator

      5:35

    • 11.

      Painting the Excavator

      4:12

    • 12.

      Drawing a Truck

      3:58

    • 13.

      Painting the Truck

      3:41

    • 14.

      Cutting-out the Vehicles

      4:32

    • 15.

      Create Sandy Textured Background with Chalk Pastels

      3:23

    • 16.

      Create a Background with Acrylics and Sponge

      1:57

    • 17.

      Create a Background Using Mono-printing and Stamping

      5:36

    • 18.

      Create a Background with Watercolours and Salt

      2:32

    • 19.

      Choose a Background for Your Vehicles

      3:29

    • 20.

      Final Thoughts

      0:38

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About This Class

Welcome in my Whimsy Construction Vehicles Class. 

Who is this class for ?

This art class is especially for all kids who are fascinated by construction vehicles (trucks, bulldozers, excavators tractors...). It is also for teachers and parents who would like to offer their students and kids a whimsical construction art project. And if you are a playful artsy adult, you might also enjoy it.

No previous knowledge or artistic skills are required.

What will you learn during this class ?

In this class you will learn :

- How to draw construction vehicles using geometric shapes

- How to paint your drawings using 4 different techniques and 4 different art mediums

* Watercolours

* Acrylics

* Water-soluble wax pastels

* Oil pastels

- How to create interesting textural backgrounds while making experiments with chalk pastels, watercolours and salt, acrylic sponge painting, mono-printing and stamping

At the end of this class you will have one or several art pieces with whimsical construction vehicles on interesting textural backgrounds.

Meet Your Teacher

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Stella and Martin Anderle

Artist and Musician,

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Hi, we are Stella and Martin Anderle

We are a couple living in Canada. We enjoy working together on creative projects and explore the combined power of art and music. We consider our music and artwork as a creative garden, a small retreat of happiness for ourselves and for others.

 

Stella is an artist, surface designer and art teacher, but also a musician, playing different instruments (harp, organ, piano...)

Her illustration and art design style is mainly inspired by nature, poetry and music melodies, combining a classical and a playful approach to art.

Her website Stella Art Design (https://stella-art-design.com), features Stella's activity as illustrator and surface pattern designer, while her French website S'Élever par l'Art... See full profile

Level: Beginner

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1. Presentation: Hi, I'm Stella Anderle. I'm an artist, surface pattern designer and art teacher, settled in Ontario, Canada. I love to create playful art projects. And it is my joy to observe how my students express themselves through art, what they enjoy the most, and how they grow as artists. Something that I have observed is that every year the boys in my art classes, the boys from three to ten years-old, ask me to draw and paint big vehicles like trucks, tractors, bulldozers, and all kinds of construction vehicles. And even if girls usually don't ask me this kind of projects, I noticed that they also enjoy them. Today's class is especially for all kids who are construction fans, but it is also for the teachers and parents that would like to offer their students or their kids playful construction art projects. And if you are a playful artsy adult, you might also enjoy it. We will start this class with two fun activities. The "Shape Hunt Game" and the "Carnival of Shapes", which will help children to get familiar with geometric shapes. Through this course, you will learn how to draw whimsical construction vehicles using geometric shapes. How to paint your drawings using different art mediums. I will present you four different techniques for the colouring process using four different art mediums. Watercolours, acrylic paint, oil pastels, and water-soluble wax pastels. You can focus only on one if you wish, or experiments with several and even all of them. Finally, you will learn how to create a variety of interesting textural backgrounds while experimenting with chalk pastels, watercolours and salt, acrylic sponge painting, mono-printing and stamping. Again, you can choose your favorite art mediums to work with, or experiment with all of them. By the end of this class, you would have created one or several art pieces with whimsical construction vehicles on interesting textural background. See you inside of the class. 2. Materials: Let's have a look at the materials that I will use in this class. You don't need to have all of them, if you prefer to experiment with one specific technique and use only a few art mediums. But if you wish to make all the experiments, here is the full list of the materials that I will use. A graphite HB pencil and an eraser. White construction paper, colour construction paper, watercolour paper for watercolour backgrounds. Oil pastels, water-soluble wax pastels, chalk pastels, acrylic paint, watercolours, a wide and a medium paint brush. Small container with water for washing my brushes. Big container with water - the size of your paper. Some kitchen salt, a sponge, a plastic sheet protector. Different home found items such as bubble wrap, plastic fork, citrus bags, bottle caps, or different other objects with which you can make marks. I also recommend you to have always with you a rag, and something to protect your table: a messy map, newspapers or an old tablecloth. Again, don't worry if you don't have everything, you can complete this class using a few specific art mediums. But I want to offer you the maximum of possibilities and creative explorations. In the next video, we will speak about your class project. 3. Class Project: Your project for this class is to create an art piece with whimsical construction vehicles on a textural background with the technique and the mediums of your choice. Don't hesitate to share your project and to reach out for questions and feedback. I will be happy to answer your questions and to encourage you. Now, let's start with the first construction vehicle, the tractor. 4. Warm-up 1: Shape Hunt Game: This video is the little game that will help children to discover or to review the geometric shapes. For each geometric shape. Try to find objects that have the same shape. Are you ready? Let's start. The first geometric shapes I want you to look for, are the circle and the oval. Let's make it simple. While the circle looks like a disk, the oval looks more like an egg. Try to find objects that have a circular or an oval shape. I'm sure you will find a lot of small circular, and oval objects in your home, even among your toys. When you are ready, display them on a flat surface. For example, on the floor or on a table in front of you. If you can, take a picture or ask your mum, your dad, or another adult to help you take photos using a camera or their cellphone. Great! Let's move to the next geometric shape. It is the triangle. The triangles can be different, but they all have three sides and three angles. Can you find objects with a triangular shape? Now, let's focus on the square and the rectangle. They all have four sides. A square has all its sides equal, whereas the rectangle has only its opposite sides equal. Can you find objects that have a square or a rectangular shape ? What a wonderful collection! Let's look now at another geometric shape that has also four sides, but only two of its sides are parallel. We call this shape a trapezoid. Can you find objects with trapezoid shape. It might be a little more difficult. But if you don't find trapezoid objects, in your home, look at pictures and photos, and try to identify some trapezoid shapes. The geometric shapes can have more than four sides. If they have five sides, We call them pentagons. If they have six sides, we call them hexagons. The stars are also geometric shapes with many sides. Let's call all of those shapes with many sides, polygons. Your last mission for this game will be to find around you, polygons with more than four sides. Collect objects, take photos, find pictures. And if you wish, share with us your collection of geometric shapes. 5. Warm-up 2: Carnival of Shapes: Now, as you are at ease with the geometric shapes. Let's draw them. Fill a sheet of paper with a variety of geometric shapes. Circles, ovals, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, pentagons, hexagons, and all kinds of stars... Create a carnival of shapes. Vary the size of the shapes, their colours and their position. You can also overlap them. Continue till you have filled the paper with this carnival of shapes. 6. Drawing a Tractor: In this video, we will draw a tractor. If you want, you can draw directly with an oil pastel or if you want to have more possibilities to erase and to fix certain details, you can use an HB pencil and an eraser. For the circular shapes of the wheels, you can draw them free handed or find objects that are circular. Whatever you can find. They will be very helpful. I will start with the wheels of the tractor. The rear wheels will be bigger than the front wheels. Just trace two circles. Leave a little space between them. Now, we will connect this space with a straight line. Now place your pencil behind the front wheel. Just behind, go up. A little bit higher than the back wheel. We'll draw this rectangular shape. We will not see that part which is behind the wheel. And another rectangular shape. on the top of that one. Now we have two rectangles : a front rectangle and a little bit bigger back rectangle. The top of this back rectangle, you can draw another rectangle. Or, if you wish, You can draw a trapezoid. Let's draw a window. And here, will be the door. Let us put the lights on the tractor. On the top, we can put the air stack. Again, another rectangle, and then, Finish it with a curved line. Inside of the wheels I will draw free handed two other circles, two smaller circles. Perfect circles are never easy to draw. Just go back and forth till you make a free handed circle. It doesn't have to be perfect. You can do it approximately. Or you can use a circular object. Just trace around. I would like to put some more variations on this wheel. You know, the wheels of the tractors are never completely smooth. They have those bumps that look like little rectangular shapes on top of the wheels. And I will do the same for the smaller wheel. Here we are. Our tractor is ready. Now it is time to go on the top with an oil pastel. Choose rather a dark colour. I will choose this blue. And I will go over all. Of course, the lines of the pastel are much bolder. It is okay if you go a little bit outside of your pencil lines. It is not a problem. Just try to follow the overall shape. It doesn't have to be perfectly the same. And on the top, I will do those rectangles, again. Maybe your oil pastels are smaller than mine. Maybe like this one, which will allow you to have more precise strokes. But I will continue with this one because maybe some of you, you have this kind of very big, thick oil pastels, which allow us to do only very big shapes. They don't have to be perfect. If they are a little bit whimsical, It's even better. We neither use a ruler and we try to draw straight lines. as well as we can. And, if they are not completely straight, it is also okay. It will give a little bit whimsical character to our drawing. And it will be more original. Now is the time to colour it. 7. Painting the Tractor: Now it's time to color the inside of the shapes of our tractor. I will use for this watercolors. I have obtained tweet and medium round brush. You will need a container of water somewhere, a pallet to mix your colors and watercolors. I would like to use some needling for the you will see that the watercolors State east side of the acetyl outlines. Very easy. The stay inside of the sheets because it will mask gills, don't allow the water to spread on down, leaving largely covered watercolors. You can even decide to go inside. You will see when you try to go over the oil pastels, push one side or the other, they will not be covered by watercolors. You're pretty safe. Just go on and put the colors that you would like to see on your attractor. You can also choose to put a second layer with a different color. Let's start to experiment. For example, I will cover this outer part of the wheel with a valid tool. It brings a difference between the ear parts. The outer part is the same color, covered the door in green. The green color and mislead thing about color in nature. You can choose any other color. I'm saying I will put the front part in orange. Wish you can also throw some ornaments. Blue, these ones, your first layer is completely dry. My stroke color. It should also be interesting, but it depends if you want it or not. Delights adult. Living light is ready. If we've had gone outside of the lungs when you put the watercolors, don't follow me because later we will cut the shape of the structure. 8. Drawing a Bulldozer: In this video, I'm going to show you how to draw a bulldozer. I will start by sketching the bulldozer pencil, HB pencil. I can use my eraser if I wanted to fix some shapes. First we will draw a tractor. I will use some round objects to trace. The beak. Small. The big wheel will be the backfill. The small bill will be the front one. And I will connect the two wheels. Double line here. Now let's draw a rectangle for the front part as the tractor. Stuff is somewhere here in the middle of this line connecting those two wheels. Another rectangle going back, connected with the backward. Then another rectangle on the top. If you want, you can adjust the shape and you can make a rectangle or you can make it a trapezoid shape. Whatever you prefer. Double this horizontal line. So this vertical line. To separate two parts. This part will be adore. Put another circle in the middle of is what we'll use here in front. That has the blame me, long oval shape, which will pull to this link. For the blade, I will simply CC, reversed at C, connect those niches. You can also totally Baker attract her delight to draw another arm to hold the bucket. For this reversed V-shape. I can see upside turned, upside down. Then double lines. Now for the bucket's on the bottom, throw another C-shape. Connect the points of this C-shape. I want to make it a little bit more pointy. Make it ear for the packets to grab some materials. I would say those are risks ready. You can always add additional elements or details. But now we are ready to go on top of it and outline it with an oil pastel. This time, I would like to use this brown color. Just follow the lines. Even if the cluster is much thicker than the HB graphite pencil. Don't worry if it is not perfect. Perfect, perfect. In some little whimsy character. For some details on the wheels. Draw this rectangular marks on the surface of the wheels. Here we are, we are ready now to cover it with paint. 9. Painting the Bulldozer: This time I will use acrylic paint, medium, round brush, and a palette for the pilot in order to mix the colors so you can use a clade or delete a container. This is the lid from a yogurt pot. I would like to color it in orange. In order to make orange, I will mix yellow and red. Well, this is not really a writer. This is rather fishy. Met, just use whatever you have. I have this color and I still believe I can make orange with this two colors. You can also mix the colors directly on paper. Don't worry if your paint covers some of the lines. Because we will go on the top at the very end and we will outline them again. Also, don't worry if you go outside of the sheep's, for example, here, I will do it intentionally. It happens to you don't worry, because later you will cut out the whole vehicle. That's okay. If you paint outside the lines. Another color for the year before, It's part of the blade. If you want to change the color, wash your brush. Try and turn around. Let's choose another color. Led to use this blue with a little bit of water for the windows. Now they accredit being to snow more so thick and it ends somewhere like watercolors. The water doesn't allow me to cover the oil pastel line. I can cross over without covering it. Because the oil pastels are water resistant and they will push the water and the beam and outside of the oil faster lines. For the wheels, I would use maybe more saturated acrylic color. For this part of the blade. See the difference when the colors in pure, not diluted with water. And this much thicker and much more saturated. Then when the color is diluted with water, like here. Here the color is solid, and here it is more like watercolors. It's stained also the lights. Bulldozer is ready. We believe the draft at the moment. Once you're painting is dry. Again, they're fast the oil pastel for the outlines and retrace all the outlines this week that they pop up. Great. I hope you enjoyed drawing and painting this bulldozer. Let's move to the next construction vehicles. 10. Drawing an Excavator: This time I will show you how to draw an excavator. I will use my pencil, HB pencil, and my eraser. To start. We'll begin with two small circles. I will use this circuit, the circular shape of this tape, leave a distance between those two circles. We would like to connect them. In the middle. We will draw also two other lines, one on the top and one on the bottom. Then around those two circles, we will draw a novel beak oval. On the top of this oval shape. I rectangles, which will be kind of that's for cold. Another rectangle. One rectangle higher than the second plans. Going go a little bit outside of this platform. Inside of this third rectangle, smaller rectangles for the Windows. One which is on the edge. This the correct angle. And the second one, which is smaller for smaller window, just mark the position of the door. Up from this older top of this rectangle. We will it had again a rectangle, high, but not very large. With the smaller one. I'm going to draw another rectangle which will be tilted mature fence in the middle of the smaller rectangle. And draw the line a to climb in this direction towards the upper left corner. Then through another line from the edge of this smaller rectangle. Going in the opposite direction. Follow this line with another line starting from the Sage, going cough. You can connect to those two lines. Then goes to a little bit higher, then go down for log and more of this one. Again, we follow with straight lines following this one's in the same direction as this one. Or in other words, this one. Those two lines will not cross. They will stay parallel at the same distance from each other as much as you can. The bottom. Again, C-shape for the packet. Because nature is ready, you can add more details if you wish. But at this point, I would suggest to go ahead and outline everything with an oil pastel. Tried to follow the lines. The lines with the oil pastel will discuss thicker. You should not be bothered. Even use their own for different from defensive lines. Don't worry, just go ahead, outline. And I think it gives it a little bit different. Once it goes. Just embrace it. You are trying. We've had in the heart and more charm. If you want. Your lines are darker in a way that you don't see the pencil marks. You need to choose a darker color of oil pastel. And you can't decides to outline certain parts in dark brown to keep the other the other lines lighter. I think I would like to keep. 11. Painting the Excavator: You can choose to color the Expo Center with watercolors as we do towards a drug or acrylics as we did for the bulldozer. Or you can discover a third technique for coloring with pestis, which are water soluble. No more use the oil pastels which are not water-soluble, but instead I'm tolerant. Pastels. There are two ways to cover with this water-soluble wax pastels. You can apply directly a color, fastness dry. Then go with a wet brush. Blend colored. This way. You can also use more than one colors and blend them together. I will blend those two colors with water. Another way, you use the water-soluble wax pastels with the bottom of the Fastow to apply to directly. Paper. On top of this brown. Some additional marks. Color to connote some mixed. Those two techniques. Sometimes you can take a brush and move the colors it around or to directly with a wet pastel. Further Windows. I would like to use these pockets of water. Again, there is no need to color the open window sweet, the blue path. It's not. As weekend take. Water, moves the pigment around and you see it is very saturated color. Now, I will continue outlining tracing. The excavator. We did dark past and it needed all the lines stand out, changed to put some details on the edge. Table bumps. The excavator to move. Even when it's very steep ground. If you want to add some final touches, some more colors and detail, go ahead and delete. Our excavator is ready. 12. Drawing a Truck: In this video, we will draw a track. I will start again with the wheels. This time I will take the outside shape. This around object, leaves some distance between the wheels. Maybe four fingers. Let's connect those two wheels. I will draw a double line. Connect them, then prolonged those two lines on the other side of the wheel. And same here will prolong those lines. On this side. This will be the front of the truck and this will be the back of the truck. In front, we'll draw a vertical line going up. Then going horizontally. Order to make a rectangle. Let's draw another rectangle on top of this one. Here. I would like to make a trapezoid shape rectangle for the very small rectangle for the lights. Vertical lines here for the door. Behind. Horizontal line between front part of the truck and the wheels, prolong it on the other side of the wheel. From this point, slightly higher than the front door. Throw another long horizontal line. We will complete this beak rectangle. Then you can put the details and the ornaments that you would like to see on your truck through another circle inside of the reals. I'm ready to trace it. Tweeted pesto. 13. Painting the Truck: This time I will color my truck using only oil pastels. I like the solid, bright colors of the oil pastels try to color inside of the shapes. But if you go outside, don't worry, as we go cut out the shape of the truck for our final project. You can also mix the colors of the oil pastels by applying the colors one above the other. We call this layering. For example, here I wanted to mix the yellow and orange. I will apply the orange on the top of the yellow. You will feel the oily texture of the pastels when you try to blend two colors together. For the windows, I recommend you to meet with a little bit of doom. By applying first the white, then some Utah touches the blue, and finally, blend again on the top with a white pasta. You can also experiment with other combinations of colors. At the end. Go again over all the lines with a dark oil. Pass them to make them stand out. Congratulations. You're threat illustration is finished. 14. Cutting-out the Vehicles: I wanted to give you some simple tips for cutting out your shapes. The excessive paper is bothering. You. Cut out roughly the whole shape. Getting grade of the paper which is all around that. You don't need to handle width. It will be much easier to cut out the shape because you will not have all the paper around which will bother you follow the lines. It will be much easier instead of turning the Caesars to turn the paper. When you have some smaller parts, some tiny parts to preserve, go slowly. New paper. To avoid cutting. The small fonts, engage you got it. Don't worry, you can always glue it after your final art piece. But let's try to preserve all the tiny shapes. Got everything in one piece. Remember, new sheet, instead of turning the Caesars. And actually you can adjust, you can turn to Cesar said a little bit in order to adjust them to the shape you're cutting out. When you start having too much paper, which is bothering you, for example, this one here, you can simply gets rid of it. Now I will slow down when they arrive with this edge and alternative paper and take a new direction. Again, when I counted this edge, I turn the paper as my, the service, take a new direction. When you arrive at a facet, the wheel somewhere, you have a lot of baths and a lot of details. So the edges, you can simply ignore the GTO. The overall circular shape. Just leave the whitespaces in-between those dumps. Now if you wish, you can go ahead and remove all the whitespaces one-by-one. You can also leave the tractor as it is with those whitespaces around. I will remove them. Sometimes we the little kids, it's difficult and it requires patient that can be a little tiring for them. But the way the older kids from seven years up, There's no reason not to do it. They they are able to remove those whitespaces and they practice their fine motor skills for doing that. Practicing also accuracy patients. They learned also to take care to create a piece which is more refined. 15. Create Sandy Textured Background with Chalk Pastels: Now I want to give you a few ideas for interesting textural backgrounds. This is just the container, a plastic container, or if you can find any kind of box, even a kitchen, kitchen container, to feel a little bit of water like one finger of water. I will wrap some chalk pastels. Kids can also do it. I do it using the handle of a brush. Sometimes they break down for you. It's nice to have a rag nearby. And especially if you just said **** proud. It happens. That's okay. I'll take a sheet of white paper to fit into the surface of the water. Take it out. Do you have some very interesting send it texture. Then leave it try. I will put some more. We will try to either colored paper. Most of the colors I choose to put in for the background, our construction colors like brown and yellow and orange or black. A little bit muddy colors, but I like also to put a, another unrealistic color in order to bring a little bit more imaginary effect. Something more stylized, unrealistic, and with a touch of dreamy character. For the previous texture, I have put violet and for this one I will put a little bit of blue. Live with four-inch. Now let's take this yellow paper, yellow construction paper. You can have some spots that are not covered with color. You can leave them or you can go again and put it again in the water. Just insist more on this spot. Here. It just leave it like that. But I can try. 16. Create a Background with Acrylics and Sponge: Another way to create interesting textural background with the Magic effect is to use acrylic paint. Just put the colors that you think you might see in construction side. I will use for this sponge and old sponge. Just tip your sponge into the paint. Spread it in the paper. I have chosen here a blue construction paper. But you can choose any other color. You want, even whitepaper that the color. If you spread it like this, it will have those marks, those continuous lines. You can use this gesture in order to create the pattern of the Wilson, the ground if you wish. But for the moment I will just that the colors, I like to include some bright colors in addition to their muddy colors in order to drink more visual interests. Just continue dabbing the color teal. You have filled the whole sheet. Again. I will leave it dry. 17. Create a Background Using Mono-printing and Stamping: Let's explore some other ideas for interesting backgrounds. This time I will use mono printing and for this purpose, let's make it simple. If you don't have a jelly plate, I will use very simple materials because probably most of you don't have Jelly plates in your classrooms. And maybe also at home for some parents. You can use just a plastic sheet protector. I will cover it with paint. You can use the colors that you want. I will use the critic paint I will use is also some additional items like bubble wrap, cetera, bag. We can also make marks with some circular objects. Why not a plastic fork? Whatever home found items you can you can gather for this purpose. You can meet so some colors if you want or you can also mix them directly. The plastic sheet protector. That's what I will do. I will spread with a brush. When the three primary colors mix together, they create some muddy colors. Brownish, grayish, very desaturated colors. I will still leave some of them bright primary colors. Visa go. I would like to add also a little bit of orange to warn some of the brown colors. We call this the plates. When we speak about printing. This is the surface where we will create the print that we would like to see on our sheet. I'm going to put some bubble wrap here like that and put it here. Instead of applying your fingers, you can also apply to the sheet of paper if you wish. Now, I'm applying my paper. Sprays with your fingers. Four quarters everywhere on the paper. Let's see. This is the first print. On the top, we will go with another print. I will use this Cyrus Beck again. Put it here on the property. Trusts me down another sheet of paper. Then again here. You can apply it again on another spot. Cover. Press lightly. Remove this little corner. I create an orange color. Let's apply again our trend. I didn't go with a fork. Create also some round shapes, smaller and some figure. You can also cover the bubble wrap. You can also apply it on citrus thoughts. We can make some trends also with the circle. This will create more subtle marks. If you apply first the paint and then you apply the object. If you want remarks to be more visible, prepare the color of your choice. Deep, the shape into the color. Here you will have marks with the color you have prepared. Once you're satisfied, you can leave your project, try. 18. Create a Background with Watercolours and Salt: Now I think the easiest way to create an interesting textured background will be with watercolors and south. I will use the game colors that are usually colors of the construction sites. Use a lot of water to make them flow. Play together. Some darker colors on the ground. While the paper is still wet. Some salt here and there. Again, I will add more salt. You can leave the watercolors create some unpredictable effects or put some intentional marks here and there. Leave it like that. See how it wants it. Just try. 19. Choose a Background for Your Vehicles: As we have all of our backgrounds, I like to have a look at them before we play with our vehicles and choose the background which we would like for each of those vehicles. Or if you have created just one fico, you can decide which background you would like to have for your vehicle. First of all, we have created backgrounds with chalk pastels, went to dry chalk pastels and to Walter. I think those are my favorites. They have a lot of character, especially for this kind of construction project. Now, let's play around and see which background we prefer for each car. I really like this one. This one looks very nice. Then we created some backgrounds with a credit paints and the sponge dabbing the paint onto the paper. Well, those are darker and make their vehicles pop up on the background. Yes, maybe this one. We have also created those backgrounds also with acrylics. Stamping different marks where two different objects like bubble wrap that we created those marks, the fork and some circular objects. Here we can have also some interesting, playful compositions. Finally, we did also a big round with watercolors and south. I definitely liked this one. Not this one looks also very hairpin. Well, I like most of them. Maybe I will go for this one for the moment. Western, if choosing a background for your cars, go ahead and glue them on the paper. I hope you really enjoyed this project and I will be very happy to see what you have created. Don't forget to share some of your hippy construction vehicles in the project gallery. 20. Final Thoughts: Congratulations for completing this class. I hope you enjoyed it and I will be happy to see what you have created. Don't hesitate to share your art project and reach out for feedback or questions. If you are looking for more playful art project, you would also like to see some of my other classes, such as sensitive farmers, mushroom houses, or even paper, flower board or drawing games. Yeah, Have a great day and I hope to see you soon in some of my other classes.