Internal Lanscapes.

After our crazy perspective lesson,  I decided that we needed to loosen things up a bit.  This Landscape project was the perfect project to reduce anxiety.  It is pretty simple and took only 2-3 class periods.  Watercolor paint has an amazing ability to sooth.   There were no rules for this one, other than draw some wavy lines to create the landscape of you choice and add a sun or moon.  They also used black tempera paint applied with strips of card stock to go over their pencil drawing.  Watercolor was applied the next day when the black paint was dry.  When asked, "how should I color it? " I said, " Use your favorite colors. "

I am so impressed with how well they were able to imagine and manifest these beautiful landscapes.  These kids live in an urban environment and many have never visited wide open spaces.