Arab Song

Mystery Painting Description

by Octavia and Courtney

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

Our painting is a vertical rectangle. You will need these colored paints: pink, purple, black, orange-red, brown, blue, grey, and white. First use blue to paint the bottom of the paper and a little strip of the left hand side, all the way up. It should look like a thin blue capital L. Then paint the right hand side and the very top a seaweed-brown color.

In the very middle of the page draw an upside-down hand with four fingers. The hand shape is one-sixth the width of the paper and almost square. Paint this shape orange-red. In between the two middle fingers, draw a thin line that is not very long. Make it chocolate-brown. Put a chocolate-brown heart shape halfway to the bottom of the painting, and a little to the right. Under the heart shape, connect a diagonal line from the heart shape to the end of the short line. This diagonal line continues past the short line about the length of the short line, but a little longer. Make it the same color. Paint the background of the hand, the two stem lines, and the heart a very light brownish-pink.

The background should look like a rectangle taking up the middle of the page. Right above the top of this background paint the top half of two eyes. Make them orange-red with chocolate-brown circles in the middle. Above the eyes paint a thick black line. Paint the background of the eyes and the thick black line light purple. Below the seaweed color on the top, and to the left of the seaweed color on the right, paint it grey as an outline, but thick. Next to the blue line on only the left, outline it a brownish-pink. The background should look like a rectangle taking up the middle of the page. On the grey that is on the right hand side, divide it into three rectangles, two up and one across. Then draw Xs so it looks like stitches.

This picture should make you feel like you are looking at the face of someone. That is our feeling. Now you know everything about our painting. Have a fun time painting!

We thought we explained the hand well. We didn't explain the background very well, though. We explained the eyes well because our partners painted them identical to the real painting.

We could have explained how we connected the hand to the heart more clearly, because our partners didn't do enough lines. We needed to explain about the stitches and the whole top of the painting better, starting from the eyes. We think we explained everything else fine because our partners painted exactly how we wanted it to be. Our partners have great painting talents!