WATERCOLOR STUDY IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL

 

In January, sixth- and seventh-graders participated in a four-week session of watercolor painting. Former CFS art instructor and current parent Leslie Shelman presented basic tools, techniques, and opportunities for exploring color mixing and composition. The students were challenged to solve traditional painting exercises, such as mixing the greatest number of secondary colors from two primary colors and to creating a "color grid" to use as a tool to recreate colors in subsequent paintings. Other assignments included using shadows and perspective to give objects "weight" and using "negative painting" to define glass against a background.