Water Color Integration With Types of Rocks.
Day 1 Introduce Techniques Sept 29th 2017
Objective: Teach three watercolor techniques along with appropriate use of water colors. The students will understand how to manipulate water colors and how to use these three techniques. Including Alcohol, Salt, and Flat wash/ Layering
Supplies
-Watercolors
-Brushes
-Water
-Salt
-little cups for alcohol
-Water Cups
-Paper towels.
5-10 min Opening activity-
-What is watercolor made of?
water= explain that water is what makes it malleable and lighter
-Since its base is water it is able to use different elements.
-Brush care
-Cover what happens if water spills
-Paper care
10 min Demo
“Watch me listen to see if you can do what I do”
-First show them how to wet paints
Flat wash demo
Textures with paper towel.
Add second layer
-Second Wet on Wet and add salt.
-Third Wash / Wet on Wet and add alcohol
20 min Experiment
-Let them try each technique and experiment.
10 min Discuss / Reflect
What reactions did the water have to these different elements we added?
10 min Clean UP
FLAT WASH/ LAYERING
SALT
ALCOHOL
I love that you split this up into two days of instruction. They were able to experiment with all the watercolor methods and then use them in an integrated project. I also really like that you modeled in detail each method for them to observe before letting them try it out for themselves. So fun!
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