Painting: Watercolor

This painting project is used for 2nd graders and water color. We started out this project with gesture drawing. We first looked at our hands and drew them, without looking at our paper and not picking up out marker. After drawing our hands, the teacher put a picture of a sunflower on the board. We then had to draw that the same way, not looking at the paper and not picking up our hands. After we were finished drawing, the teacher came around and and boxed out certain areas of our paper. We then could use the various methods of water color that we were taught for this project. I used 'wet on wet' in the orange and yellow square. In the other square I used crayon resist. This project was very fun to do. Another project for this could be using different kinds of paint and trying to paint inside all the different shapes you created in the gesture drawing.