How to Paint with Watercolors Lessons in
"Ability Level" One
Desert Cactus
Running
time 58 Minutes
Students color or paint a beautiful desert scene
with saguaro and prickly pear cacti using colored
pencils or watercolors.
This lesson teaches how to paint with watercolors and students learn interesting facts about the
Saguaro cactus.
It also discusses artistic principles such as overlapping,
warm and cool colors, fore, middle and background,
and arranging objects to unify a picture. The lesson
demonstrates painting with water colors.
Castle
Running time 32 minutes
Works well as two sessions - students
draw with video & can color on their own.
Teaches how to draw a castle i.e.;
perspective top & bottom, near & far.
Teaches about castles i.e.; the uses
and purposes of various wall and towers, how inside
the castle could include an entire town.
Children are encouraged to draw and
color any imaginative background they like.
Fall Tree
Running
time 50 minutes
Students draw and paint an Autumn
tree using pencils, pens and water colors.
In this lesson two different ways
of painting the trees are demonstrated. The foliage
is painted with dots for younger children, and free
form color for older students.
The lesson reviews how to paint with watercolors, painting
the sky and warm fall colors.
Hyacinths
Running time 37 minutes
How to Paint
with watercolors - Placing flowers freely on the
paper.
Watercolor
techniques i.e.; creating light and dark shades
of color on flowers and leaves, painting one color
next to another.
Visualizing
and creating one flower behind another.
Poinsettia
Running
time 35 minutes
Teaches
how to paint with watercolors while designing
a beautiful red flower.
Tells
of the Mexican legend of the Poinsettia (a Christmas
legend).
Sunflower
Running
time 45 minutes
Students draw and paint a bright,
beautiful sunflower using pencils, pens and water
colors.
Lesson teaches how to paint with
water colors; how to hold the brush and paint with
the tip of the brush, how much paint to use on the
brush and how to control it and how to blend and
layer colors.
Teddy Bear
Running
time 36 minutes
Students
use pencils to sketch a standing bear.
Students
are encouraged to draw a fun outfit on him/her and
something for him to hold, for example, the bear
might be wearing a soccer outfit and holding a soccer
ball. Many examples are shown along with examples
of backgrounds should they choose to add one.
Students
complete their drawing with pens and crayons or
colored pencils.
Lesson
teaches proportion, symmetry and sketching
circles and ovals.
Tiger Face
Running time 51 minutes
Teaches
children how to draw the head and face of a tiger
and color it realistically using crayons and fine
line markers (of black crayons).
Endangered
species discussion - tigers, their characteristics
and habitats.
Ukrainian Eggs
Running time 35 minutes
Children
design an egg with colored markers on a background
created with colored chalk and may use the traditional
Ukrainian patterns, symbols and colors which are
presented in the lesson.
Discussion
of the Ukrainian tradition of coloring and giving
beautiful eggs to each other at Easter time.
Also
included is a brief discussion of Faberge’ eggs.
