I brought lots of watercolored illustrated children's books to class and had the 7th and 8th graders look at the pictures. I had them look at how no picture was floating in a sea of white paper. I pointed out that even the most skilled artists sketched out their painting first. I covered the different methods of applying watercolors such as blotting, bleeding, dry brushing, blending and wet on wet. Their assignment was to make the first page of a story from their own imagination. this was my example:
Students work:
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