I love almost anything that children paint with watercolor. This is a simple watercolor resist, done with sheep imagined on a hillside.1. The students are to draw, as lightly as they can, three to five ovals (the sheep bodies) in pencil on watercolor paper.
2. A white crayon is used to color heavily inside all the ovals.
3. Give the students a choice of dark crayon colors for their sheep head and feet, such as purple, black or blue. With one color, they need to draw a triangle for the head, two ears to the side and four lines for the feet. These shapes also need to be colored in really well too so that they will show up later. Green crayons may be used to draw just a few grass lines.
4. Finally, I like to have liquid watercolor paint on hand so the students may pick one color and paint over their entire drawing. The crayon will resist the paint and the white bodies will now show up because of the background color - like magic!
6 comments:
This is absolutely awesome1 I've done stuff like this before with the kids, but your instructions are so much better! Your whole blog is awesome. I looked over a bunch of it and can tell I am going to be coming back to it for more!!! Thanks for posting.
And yes, it's such a shame that the arts are being taken out of the schools.
Beautiful... I love it. This blog is fabulous and I have used projects from here before. Quality stuff. I put a link to your blog on mine. I hope that is ok...
Thanks for such quality content and ideas that i can use with the kids at school. Will be bookmarking you for sure!
These are so cute. Thank you!
i needed a quick art project for my girls this afternoon- this is perfect. thank you! your blog is an amazing resource.
Hi Kathy, I used your technique here in an art project at our school and I linked to this post. Thanks for the great idea!
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