Watercolor
At first, watercolor is sometimes frustrating for students to learn because you have to be organized yet flexible. If they have experience in painting with other mediums they tend to get discouraged by the fact that you can't paint over your mistakes because of watercolor's transparent nature.

Students learned watercolor techniques such as washes, wet into wet, dry brush, splattering, sponging, etc. Experimentation with color theory by breaking up the composition with color variations was also an important component.

I like teaching watercolor because students learn to be patient to prevent unwanted bleeding of colors and at the same time be spontaneous by noticing "happy mistakes" that naturally occur with the different techniques.
By Gogh on April 9, 2008 at 11:29am EDT Topic(s): high school lessons watercolor

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thehipphan That looks sort of like a sea lamprey to me... what is it?
4/10/2008 at 9:51am EDT

Gogh
You're right Mr. Scientist.
4/10/2008 at 10:59am EDT
thehipphan Woo! I love it! I am sure this piece is in some way a statement against invasive species.
4/10/2008 at 1:03pm EDT
Starfish http://craftingagreenworld.com/

that's the blog I was telling you about the other day. jsyk.
4/17/2008 at 8:55am EDT
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