Today I'm sharing a little bit of the aloha spirit and also my Hawaiian Sunset lesson. Aloha is more than a word, isn't it? It means hello, goodbye, but also carries a deeper meaning. The aloha spirit signifies giving without expecting anything in return. I means accepting each as a valuable part of the whole, living peacefully in the present, and being one with the natural world.
Students made these beautiful tropical sunsets for our PTG fund raiser this year. They'll send them away to be printed on various items. To make them we first made a watercolor wash to make an ocean sunset. We used liquid watercolors, but you can use what you have. Then we used our backgrounds to create a beach silhouette. Students really loved this lesson. We used this video to practice drawing our palm trees (not a native species in Vermont). How to draw palm trees And we used this video to practice our hula. Aloha Music.
Aren't they fun? Don't they make you want to create a little aloha spirit of your own?
Beautiful- love the painted sunsets!
ReplyDeleteLove them! Oh how I can't wait for the warmth of summer! :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty. I think the words aloha and shalom have a very similar spirit, don't you?
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