How can I use this resource?

With this resource, you can make beautiful ocean collages that show the beauty of the sea and the art of depth effects. It's a fun and educational activity for kids who love painting and ocean creatures. You can use this resource to decorate your classroom with colorful and realistic scenes of the ocean. Each collage is unique and different from the others, as each student can choose their own creatures, colors, and angles. You can also use this resource to learn about the different types of ocean animals and how colors create the illusion of depth.

What does this resource contain?

This resource contains templates and instructions for making ocean collages with depth effects. It includes 16 different ocean creature silhouettes in two sizes that you can cut out and glue on your paintings. You can choose from shark, orca, whale, sea turtle, seal, dolphin, ray, jellyfish, tuna, hammerhead-shark, and squid. The resource also provides you with some tips on how to mix and apply blue and white paints to create the gradations of light and dark.

About Working with Depth Effects

Colors do not actually exist in nature. They only occur in our brains as color impressions. In this way, we humans can distinguish between roughly 5,000 different colors. In doing so, we perceive three properties for each color – the actual hue, the color saturation, and the luminosity (brightness). The brightness dictates how light or dark an object appears. The starkest difference is between black and white. By mixing in white paint we can lighten colors and by adding black paint we make them darker. By gradually lightening a color with white when painting you can achieve fascinating impressions of depth. Such depth effects make images exciting and realistic. If you can master this technique, you’ll be able to create impressive paintings! 

Depth effects are especially impressive if you work with black silhouettes at the same time. These are stuck onto a background that’s been painted with gradations of light and dark. The black cutouts of ocean creatures don’t only create the illusion of three-dimensionality, they also give the viewer the impression that they’re looking at the silhouettes of ocean creatures swimming above from the depths of the ocean floor.

Download this resource today and learn how to work with depth effects!