1st grade Watercolor Birds The OBJECTIVES are to: Experiment with line drawing, watercolors and oil pastel Materials Watercolor paper 12x18 pencil eraser oil pastels liquid watercolors Class Periods - 1 Info on liquid watercolors - Make sure the students put their name and date on every project!

Watercolor can either take a very long time or not. The difference is often the use of liquid watercolors compared to pan watercolors. If you want students to experiment with mixing, use pan. When you want color on a paper fast, use liquid. You can vary the intensity of liquid watercolors by adding different amounts of water, so that the colors can be strong and dynamic or subtle and soft. STEP 1 Start with a directed outline drawing with pencil. USE A LIGHT LINE OR LIGHT HAND - don’t press hard. It’s important to note that you give students a few options. On the white board, brainstorm with the kids - what a beak can look like, how you could change the wings, that sort of thing. This technique works well because you want the children to learn to draw but also want them to be as individual as possible. Start with a circle for the eye. Tip: To ensure proper placement of the eye, explain where the eye should go, then have each child point to that place on their paper. This is an important step as most children will put the eye anywhere on the page, resulting in frustration with the later steps. On the right side of the page, directly in front of the eye, draw an arrow pointing to the eye. This is the beginning of the beak. From here, the illustrations should be enough to get you going. STEP 2 After a quick drawing tutorial, ask the students to go over their pencil lines with one color of oil pastel. Use a dark & solid line - we will paint over these lines. (Explain wax resist) Then, select one or two (or three!) other colors to add feathers, color in the beak, etc. STEP 3 Now the watercolors: Paint the bird first. Do this so that if you run out of time, at least the bird is painted. STEP 4 Paint the background Procedure print this to teach by WAX RESIST - draw as darkly and solidly with oil pastel as possible. When you paint over the drawing, the paint will only stick to the areas of the paper without crayon (white sections). The paint resists the pastel area.

vocabulary outline drawing - A line drawn to show the outer edges of a form wax resist - The fact that oil or wax and water don't mix can be used when painting to mask out areas to retain the white of the paper or the color beneath, as well as to create interesting textures. Quite simply, you draw with the wax on your paper, then wash over it with a water-based paint. Where the wax is, the water in the paint is repelled and so the paint either runs off it or collects in little drops on it. wash