My daughter loves art. She will paint and draw for hours. Her favorite subject in school is art, and she was so excited when she was not only able to do it for 1 period every day during 1st semester, but we were also able to get her into an art class as a special elective as well for the remainder of the year thanks to her working so hard and earning a high GPA. Now her brother is doing an art class for 2nd semester and is finding he has a new love and appreciation for sketching … and he is sketching every chance he gets. Now, let’s create some beautiful watercolor art that will inspire you to ‘speak for the trees’. Tip: Scan your watercolor art onto your computer, resize it to 5×7 using a free photo editing program such as PicMonkey, and print on cards to hand out to friends and family. Maybe you could even gift it to them with a packet of seeds to plant something of their very own this Earth Day.
Supplies:
Watercolor paints Watercolor paper (prefered) – but project paper will work too if that’s what you have on hand (regular copy paper won’t work) Bowl of water and brushes Pencil
Instructions:
Tips for getting started with watercolor painting: Begin by sketching out their art. This way they can erase and re-do before painting.
Once they are happy with their sketch, they can start painting. Teach them about adding water to the color palette, washing their brush before changing colors, and changing the water if they need to. Show them how overlapping colors and shades will change their painting, such as using a darker blue and then a lighter blue.
And before they know it, they’ll have beautiful water color art to display.
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