Watercolor Paintings of Flowers by Ms. Finberg's class

Children in 4th grade are exploring working in watercolors. Painting in watercolor has its own techniques. Read the captions below to learn a little about what we are doing.

This artist first painted the yellow shape and the background. During a class a week later, the child used a much smaller brush to add the details.

Children also used their "detail" brushes to further define their petals.

Here, the artist used the detail brushes to add the fine detailing on the petals.....

This artist used wet-on-wet technique to make the background seem further back. Wet-on-wet technique is when one color is added to another color that has not yet dried on the paper.

Children also learned that when working in watercolors when you paint the same color over another color that has already dried, it intensifies that color...Above, see areas where the black color was used more than once....can you see a difference?

Children learned to make some aspects of the background come "forward" by making some of the background foliage more detailed than others.

These 2 flowers are brought forward and in focus by the fact that the front subjects are detailed and the background objects are blurry.