In addition to being a cute little poem about the antics of snowmen after dark, the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner contains some beautiful illustrations by the author's husband, Mark Buehner. His work offers the students some great examples of using shadows and highlights to give form to what would otherwise be the traditional "flat" snowman they've drawn, painted, or built as collages before. They use the native color of the light blue construction paper for the "in between" color of their snowmen, and add dark blue oil pastel for their shadows and white for their highlights. (Compare these highly realistic snowmen with the collages they created as kindergartners and first graders to get a sense of how far these Dolphins have come in art!)
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