BROKEN PIECES

FRACTURED WATERCOLORS

BEGINNING 2-D ART

watercolor on cold pressed w/c paper

In 4th Quarter I take my students thru an intensive study of watercolor.

Those pieces will be coming up next week.

But in the meantime,

 I want to show off  a little extra credit opportunity they had

after the unit was over.

It went like this.

Pick a subject and draw it in segments or fractures,

and do the same with the background.

Then watercolor each fracture a different value or color.

These two in  particular came out really well.

Junior Vaishalee Chaudhary took to the watercolor like a duck to water.

She enjoyed it so very much that she created several other pieces during 4th Quarter

for pure pleasure.and was thrilled that this very tricky medium was easy for her.

What I loved that both girls did is they weren't afraid to mix colors.

So many students limit themselves to using only the pure colors in the watercolor packet.

They don't think to mix them to lower the intensity and and bring up the saturation.

So their pieces seem so trite.

But both these gals mixed and mixed and came up with subtle low key color combos.

Oh, by the way,

this clever piece was done by senior Melissa Ongko.

TWO FRIENDS

WATERCOLOR & CHARCOAL

BEGINNING 2-D ART

watercolor & charcoal

I've really been looking forward to sharing these fabulous pieces by my beginners.

After spending 3 semesters learning about the Design Elements & Principles,

and 2 semesters learning to draw, 

my newbies get to putting it all together with these masterpieces.

We started with 3 preliminaries first before the good paper came out:

#1 learning to work with various charcoal pencils, sticks & vines,

#2 laying watercolor down first then putting charcoal over top for value,

and #3 laying charcoal down first then watercoloring overtop to blend.

The kids picked between #2 & #3 to build their pieces with.

We are starting with junior Eileen Lee.

What a dynamic composition first of all,

and then look how this piece flows & moves together over the paper.

Brilliant work Eileen,

and way to start us off.

Next we have junior Malaya Sithichai with this stunningly drawn & painted pup.

Sophomore Mikaela Guerrero took to this technique 

like a duck to water with her two urban landscapes.

So loose & spontaneous.

Effortless,

wow!

The second one was whipped up in one day.

Everyone was so taken with these pieces 

that I'm thinking of limiting subject matter this year to an urban landscape.

Your thoughts please?

With a completely different style is sophomore Clarissa Kim.

I'm so disappointed this young woman was not able to fit me in this year 

to continue on with her art studies.

I really like the lightly stroked charcoal in the feathers.

Lovely.

What  I did suggest last year for subject matter were birds.

I have a friend who sends me her nature magazines when she's done with them,

and they have numerous photos for the kids to choose from.

I like how junior Ayesha Durrani added the fairies to her landscape.

Very sweet.

And one of my personal favorites was this one by junior Eunice Shim.

Love the movement she captured with both her watercolor and charcoal strokes!

Another brilliant work and personal favorite was this one by sophomore Matthew Flores.

This was his fractured watercolor Extra Credit piece.

Love the layers he built this self-portrait with.

I screamed with delight when I saw this!

Something like"Oh My God,

did you guys see this one?"

And we end with these two Extra Credit pieces by junior Vicky Hur.

So very sensory & lovely Vic!