ART: Water Colour Pencils

Today I taught the boys how to use Water Colour pencils.  

They chose animals from the One Life documentary movie.

I helped them sketch their outline (so it was big enough to paint), they then set off colouring it in with water colour pencils.  We spoke about technique and the way these pencils work and how you can put layers of different colours together to create new colours.. remembering not to put too much colour down so it would not bleed when wet. 

Here are their photo inspirations

Snow Monkeys

Grass Cutter Ant

Here are their coloured sketches

Here is the water overlay finished products

Both boys REALLY enjoyed this project and it will hopefully be repeated for other subjects.

What I learned is finding the balance between "helping" and "doing it for"  - I let them do most of it but felt by doing the first sketch their finished product would be something we all loved. 

Both boys want to frame and hang their work!