Project Summary:
Painting with water colours can be a little bit more difficult but this water colour painting project is a fun way to introduce children to the concept of mixing water with their paints to create different colour depths within their paintings.
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Project Details: Water Colour Painting Project
| Materials: |
| A pencil, rubber and ruler |
| White paper |
| Watercolour paints |
| A selection of paintbrushes and sponges |
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Step 1: Prepare the materials
You will need white paper, a pencil, rubber and ruler, a selection of paint brushes and a watercolour paint set.
The next step is to decide on the concept you wish to paint. Choosing a landscape concept could be a good starting point. There may be a landscape scene of interest in your locality whereby you could take a photo and print it for the basis of the painting. For this project we printed a photo of a lake with a boardwalk.
Step 2: Sketch the concept with pencil
The next step is to lightly sketch the outline of the landscape on paper. If the landscape photo was printed to the same scale as the paper, it will be easier for children to transfer the idea to a sketched concept.
Step 3: Paint the background elements
The next step is to paint the background. A good starting point is to paint the background concepts such as water, the sky, or background fields, with a light wash of paint. Children will enjoy mixing paint colours to try to achieve their desired colours. They can build up each element of the painting as the painting progresses to create more depth.
Children can also choose between using paint brushes or sponges to achieve different effects.
Step 4: Paint the foreground elements
Once the background elements have been completed, children may choose to explore using smaller brushes to work on the foreground elements of the painting. Again they can combine a variety of colours, and they can experiment by adding varying amounts of water to the paint.
Step 5: Complete the detail within the painting
When the background and foreground elements have been completed, it’s time to complete the finer detail of the painting. This may include adding additional depth or shading to certain elements of the painting or adding in smaller details to specific areas.
Step 6: Display the artwork
When the painting has been fully completed it can be left to dry and then it is ready to be displayed within a frame or added to an artwork portfolio.
