Day two: water color unit

I finished my watercolor but Mrs. Hobart was not impressed. She wiped off my water colors, I might add. And during criticism, she told me I wasn't skilled enough to do abstract work yet. 

I tried to do a fan brush technique and also a sponge technique, both of which were less than satisfactory. 

I also did a scene with salt technique, which didn't quite suck out the water and pigment like I had hoped. But I'm overall okay with how this turned out. 

Watercolor unit!

These watercolors have not been used in quite some time. They're rusty and crusted over with old paint. 

I had these great scenes to paint but they just didn't turn out how I would have liked. The salt technique didn't do what it was supposed to and the masking tape ripped up my water color paper. 

Blending wasn't a problem until I forgot which paints in my palette were paint and which were oils-which stay in the brush longer and are harder to clean. 

 This was day one. I intended to make a river scene, so I blended purple and green hues into my blue water 

For the sky, I just used the dirty water to create the pastel look. 

Final requirements: interactive mural

Mrs. Hobart does things slightly different than Mrs. Giudice did. We are no longer graded for our blog and we do final requirements on paper. 

I deserve an A because I went out and bought my own chalk and donate the rest to the class. That's an A for effort. 

And most days Alexyss and Charlie weren't both helping me on the mural. I took all of the pictures for both of them, because they forgot to blog. 

Interactive mural: day six

Mrs. Hobart has been watching our group exclusively. Making me nervous 

But our progress has been halted as we're running out of chalk. Luckily I went out and bought some. 

We made note of where the dock would be so we wouldn't run blue and brown together. 

We also noted that the dock would be three dimensional with posts holding it up. 

See what I mean? Mrs. Hobert's creeping on my team. 

We finished our sea. 

Now to finalize the dock. 

Alexyss was our model, she is fishing off the end of our dock. 

She had to go in a "deep squat".