watercolor practice
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1 Students observe drawings of dandelions.
2 On the watercolor paper draw three stems spaced apart a bit coming from one side of a sheet with pencil. They could be drawn coming from either side of the paper going towards the middle.
3 Draw a small circle at the tip of each stem for the dandelions center and then lightly drew a large circle around it to act as a guideline to where their dandelion seed heads would be drawn to, to create a full, fluffy dandelion puff.
4 Draw 1 large dandelion and 2 smaller ones on either side of the large one. Draw a variety of seed heads stemming out from the center of each dandelion.
5 Then once all three are drawn, add drifting seed heads blowing away from the dandelion puffs in the wind.
6 Go over stems lines and dandelion puffs lines and drifting seed heads with a black sharpie. After using sharpie they erased any pencil lines that remained.
7 Before applying paint to your drawings, review warm and cool colors.
Students apply water only to 1/2 of your paper quickly with a watercolor brush. THEN apply dabs of either just warm colored paint OR just cool colored paint onto the wet areas using one color at a time.
Students notice how the paint spread outward from where you dabbed little bits of paint over the watered down paper. The water helps spread the paint and it also changes the value of the color making the color lighter and less vibrant (value= the lightness or darkness of a color).
Then once one 1/2 of your paper is painted, dab the painted section with a paper towel while its still wet, to help soften the color and spread the paint even more.
Then painted the other 1/2 of their paper with water only and applied paint to that wet area then dabbed off with a paper towel.
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