mixed media stories - week 4

   These kids are awesome, I love working with them. They are so focused and 'on it'.
   Today most of them finished up their 'scenes' from last week, painting them with gouache. (A couple here are still in-progress.)
  

The next assignment is to purely play around with the paint - watercolor and gouache - creating textures and fields of color, experimenting with puddles, drips, runs, bleeds, taking their paper out in the rain, just filling the page with color with no specific imagery or story in mind. Next week they will 'daydream' on their painting, rotating it and looking at it in different ways, and see what pops out at them, a face, an animal, a setting, and work from there, allowing their painting and imagination to reveal a story to them...