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Letter Ghost by Paul Klee
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Mystery Painting recreated by Scott and Chris
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by Tom and Bill Our picture looks like an envelope with an alien shape. This is how you will paint it. First you mix a lot of white paint with a little bit of blue paint. Then paint the whole paper. After you do that, mix mustard color with white and paint an envelope. There's a black outline around the envelope and a thin out black line for the flap and bottom. The flap of the envelope is the alien's head, but with a curly 9 on the bottom of the envelope. The flap is like the same for the body. For the head there is a line for the nose. There are two circles for the eyes, and a small horizontal line for the mouth. And that's how you will make our painting. |
by Bill and Tom When Chris and Scott painted our painting, we found these things they did well. Scott and Chris did the black outline really well and chose good colors. They did the wrong envelope. We should have said it was an envelope for a letter. They also put the 9 in the wrong place. It would have been better if we said the 9 was on the body of the envelope. Sometimes they used the wrong color, too light or too dark. When we wrote "blue" we should have written "Ultramarine blue." We said nothing about the way it was supposed to go horizontally. But we thought that they did well, and that's really good. The real painting was made in 1937 with colored paste on newspaper. It's called Letter Ghost. It is 13 by 19 inches. You can find the painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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