Flex Class- Intro to Watercolor

In Art Studio: Intro to Watercolor, students will learn watercolor techniques including adding depth, texture, and interest using a variety of materials, including salt, plastic wrap and oil pastels. Students will learn how to clean-up their learning space and materials.  Students will follow along step-by-step with their teacher to create their own unique piece of art each week. Students are encouraged to engage in the class by asking questions and sharing their progress as they go through the class. In a weekly uploaded video, students will learn basic painting techniques, terminology, perspective and how to apply it to their own unique art piece. 

Being a Flex Class, students participate when it works with their schedule. Each week will include an uploaded video demonstrating a new lesson, in a step-by-step format including a demonstration of the materials and clean-up techniques. Weekly, discussion questions will be posted to the classroom page. Students will share their finished art piece with the class via the classroom page each week. Discussion questions will be added to the classroom weekly to encourage a deeper understanding of materials and techniques.  

Weekly Sharing of Finished Art Pieces:
Students will share their weekly masterpiece with the class along with a summary of their finished piece including a title, meaning of the art piece and how they used the materials. This can be a video presentation or attached images with a written description. 

Weekly Challenge:
As a challenge, students will try out newly learned techniques to create an additional art and share it with the class. 

Weekly Discussion Questions:
On Mondays, a discussion questions will be uploaded to the classroom page. Students will share their responses on the classroom board. Sharing can be done via a video log or in written form.

Study of each week:
Week 1: Salt and Wax Resist
Week 2: Sunset and Silhouette
Week 3: Sharpie and Plastic Wrap
Week 4: Sponge Tree