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Mastering Watercolour Techniques with Sweets
These lessons are an introduction to using watercolour paints to start to show realism, aimed
at Year 9 students or higher. It shows students the process for layering watercolour paints and engages them by using sweet / chocolate wrappers. Students use pencil to refine their work once the paint layers are dry. This set of lessons would also be suitable for an art club or intervention sessions with GCSE students. Students can taken their own wrapper photographs to use or you can have your own resources printed for them. Wrappers with lots of tonal variations work best. To make these lessons simpler, you could have students all painting the same wrapper and copying your demo steps one-by-one.
By Greg Thomas
Duration: 3- 4 hours
Materials:
• Sweet / chocolate wrapper reference pictures,
• PD479A625 Specialist Crafts Watercolour Tablets
• BR441A444 Artist Round Watercolour Brush Set
• DP291A010 Spectrum Graphite Pencils
• PB051A Specialist Crafts Spectrum Artist Watercolour Paper
Pads
Aims:
• Understand how to graphite transfer a reference picture • Understand how to add a base layer colour wash
• Understand how to show highlights using watercolours • Understand how to add layers of watercolour paints
• Understand how to refine work using pencil