Easy watercolor

Educational activities

Discover an artistic technique for creating landscapes: rapid watercolor. Act on your creation to make it evolve.

A young man draws pictures of birds in the woods and becomes hypnotized by his own patterns.

Art is therefore the central element of the history studied. Through this short film, students will be able to discover settings and characters created with a very particular artistic technique: watercolor.

One of the challenges of teaching the visual arts is to provide students with tools and elements of reflection based on practice and the analysis of works. The visual arts thus promote discovery through observation and experimentation. To implement the teaching of visual arts, the activity sheet will suggest that you put your students in a practical creative situation during which they will take the time to discover from another angle tools and supports that are familiar to them and whose artistic potential seems limited to them.

Although watercolor is a fairly simple water-based painting technique in definition, it nevertheless requires a lot of mastery and suitable equipment to be able to be implemented. Students are therefore only very rarely introduced to it during their primary schooling for multiple reasons: lack of materials, lack of time, lack of budget, etc.

However, this technique arouses the curiosity of children who find themselves attracted by these spots of color and their gradient which seem to be the result of chance or even error but which, in the end, offers a coherent, harmonious, hypnotizing result...

So that watercolor can be easily accessible to all students, in all schools, despite their constraints, the choice was made here to approach watercolor through the use of common tools, present in all schools and without the need for financial investment. Beyond the discovery and implementation of a watercolor work using felt-tip pens, water and plastic bags, the students will also and above all be encouraged to act on their creation.

Just as the short film puts it in the spotlight, imagination will have its place in this activity which will ask the students to take, like the hero of the short film, the time to observe their work, to feel it and to grasp the effects of chance in their production and then to “give it life”.