Materials Needed:

2 Sheets of White Construction Paper
l Sheet of a Larger Black Piece of Construction Paper for Frame
Stick of Charcoal
Paper Towel
Glue
Black Tempera Paint
Red Tempera Paint
Brush
Toothbrush

Chinese Landscape Painting

Onto a sheet of white construction paper, starting at the edge of the middle of the paper, draw large curving mountains and valleys with your charcoal horizontally across the paper.  At the bottom of the paper, draw rolling hills all across the bottom horizontally.  Now tear the contours of the black lines you have drawn with your hand.  That's right "cut" your mountains and rolling hills with your hand.  Now turn it over, so that the clean part faces you, and glue it to the other sheet of contruction paper.  Glue it back where it would have fit originally.  Next, with vertical strokes, sweeping upward, draw sweeping lines all along the curving mountains, and rolling hills. Using your paper towel, blend the charcoal, creating atmospheric smoke onto your landscape.  Now take the brush and create Chinese characters and strokes.  Finish it off with a special Chinese "stamp" of your own unique signature.  Chinese artists often use their unique red stamp.  Glue art work onto a black sheet of construction paper and hang.