Saturday, January 16, 2016

6/7/8 Watercolor Paintings

The middle school students began a unit on water color painting by watching a short tutorial on the internet and then experimenting with paint on wet and dry paper, mixing colors together, and adding details to wet and dry surfaces. Local water color painter and Parker Admission Director, Laura Mandelson, came into class to show the students some of her work and to talk about how to achieve different results with this medium. Then the students each figured out a composition of particular interest to them, sketched out the scene and painted it using many of the newly acquired techniques.

Early experimenting

Working oncolor mixing and texture

Laying in some first colors

A turbulant sky

Laura discussing her work with the class

Painting the sky behind an eagle

Flowers from a still-life

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