1. Free Flow With Watercolor

2. Can Be Very Controlled

3. But still has a free spirit about it

4. We’ve been drawing to build your levels of control, now it’s time to loosen it up in painting

5. Sometimes, losing some of the control adds surprise and mystery to a design.
Contemporary artists are becoming less controlled today.

6. Jackson Pollock
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Ghada Amer

7. The best way to lose control is to start with watercolors

8. Question: How will you lose an element of control?
Create a watercolor painting showcasing a balance between control and freedom
Criteria
-Have a color theme
-Show Value
-Depict a person, place, or thing
-At least one area that show a loss of control
-Have an interesting, balanced composition that uses the entire paper.
-An executed plan (placement on images and execution of your idea is clean and well thought out)
-Only use watercolor on your paper

9. Find the balance between control and surprise

10. Blend colors with water to create a mood and atmosphere

11. Use value and a color theme

12. Color theme

13. Using the entire composition

14. Enhancing the design though elements of surprise

17. Goals
1. display are artwork in the display case. Do not copy ideas online.
2. Create a preliminary sketch, experiment with watercolors. No artist statement needed for this assignment.
3. Take a photo of your finish artwork and send it to me via .

18. Those who have completed this assignment before, I’d like to you attempt to paint a person in watercolor and having a area of the painting lose control in some way. Painting people is a much higher difficulty.