A Day at the Beach, paper cutting lesson from Home School Arts page 1
A Day at the Beach, Page 5


     Palm leaves are easy to draw and design and you may make as many layers of leaves as you want. The secret is to make the widest leaf section the bottom leaf section and the narrowest the top.

     

Bottom section example.
Middle section example.
Top section example.
Using a color pencil or crayon you may decide to draw lines on the leaf sections to illustrate the lines usually found in the leaves.
What they will look like piled on top of each other.
Another way of giving a three-dimensional look to your work. Using a pencil fold and roll the palm leaves gently to give them a droop.
The coconuts are simply ovals from 3/4" - 1" inch in height.



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