First graders have been working on this painting the past few weeks. We are studying weather patterns and having fun learning new techniques with watercolor like blowing, dripping, and adding salt!
Third grade is painting these fun jellyfish watercolor resists! I LOVE this Liquitex gloss Medium and Varnish!! It makes a great resist!
We just painted this gloss medium right on the paper to create our jellies...
We are using warm colors for the Jelly and cool colors+salt for the water
I just LOVE the texture from the salt!
One of the high school teachers in our district used the Liquitex Gloss Medium and Varnish to make these gorgeous multimedia watercolor resists for Dia De Los Muertos. They stamped the Gloss on the paper, drew their design, and painted over it. We are going to use this technique with our Sureal Self Portraits this year! Cannot WAIT!!
Yesterday we had some left over Easter confetti eggs! They are on clearance now everywhere for 50 cents a box. My daughter drew this cute bird and filled it in with crushed egg pieces!
My first graders are studying Claude Monet right now! First we watched a cute video (below) to learn about the artist
Then we drew the garden and the Japanese bridge with oil pastels on watercolor paper.
Students had to use three different shades of green, have lily pads that begin large at the bottom of the page and get smaller as they go up the page. The lilies can be any color, detailed or blobs.
We used cool colors for the water, plants, and tree reflections. I use liquid watercolors because they are the BEST!!
Before each student takes their paper to the table I swipe the whole paper with a very very wet towel.
Then they begin with some splotches of turquoise
Then they use blue
Then bits of purple, making sure to leave the top and bottom for the green
Then finally add the green at the top for the trees reflecting on the water and on the bottom for the grass
You can add salt for texture OPTIONAL
Then finally we use a dark green watercolor marker to add some
Here is the version with salt after it dried. I love how it created a green vignette around the top!
