Art Group Day 10- Wet On Wet Watercolors

 Today in art group we did wet on wet watercolor paintings.  We put the watercolor paper into a big plastic bin of water and soaked them while we talked.  We looked at more pictures by Wasilly Kandinski and some by Mark Rothko.  We talked about letting the colors bleed together a bit and about trying to paint an emotion with color.  According to most of the kids their paintings were either "HAPPY!!!!!" or "Sad."  When I asked the smallest kids what feeling they were painting they would respond with:  yellow or some other color.  I think they did a great job with the color.  Most of them are still loving using an eye droppers even more than the paint brushes.  Liquid watercolors are hands down my favorite art medium for small kids.  Next time I'm going to order more of the metallic ones.

 Red Fish /New Fish

 The kids had as much fun playing in the paper soaking tub as they did painting so it was definitely a day for swimming.  Summer art projects and swimming just seem to go hand in hand.