Watercolor Window View

Description:
     Using watercolors to create a painting of a view from a window.

Objective(s):

• Thinking about watercolor as a painting medium.
• What are the best ways to apply the color in specific places?
• How can different texture techniques be used to represent aspects of a view through a window?

Instructions:

1. Find a window to the outside that you want to use for your painting.
   • Think about what is around the window.
   • Think about what you see through the window.
2. Take a photo of the window and the view.
   • Include a bit of the space around the window.
   • Aim at the view that you want.
3. Working directly from sitting in front of the window.
   • LIGHTLY sketch out the image on watercolor paper in a line drawing.
   • Include a bit of the area around the window.
   • Half a sheet of paper.
   • Fill the page.
   • No shading, just outlines.
   • Dashed lines for shadow edges.
   • If not able to work directly sitting in front of window, use the photo that you took.
4. Use watercolors/brush to add colors & values to the painting.
   • Consider watercolor techniques.
   • Start LIGHTLY with washes.
   • Work on large areas first - sky, street, trees, window frame, etc.
   • Gradually add darkness and details.
   • Consider layering to get different colors.
   • Colors do not have to be realistic. Can be monochromatic.
   • After you have finished the watercolor and it has dried, you may come back in with pen and/or pencil to add accents and outlines.
   • Watercolor Window View Painting Demonstration Video
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5. Photograph your final painting.
6. In the quiz:
   • Answer the questions.
   • UPLOAD the photo of your final painting.
   • UPLOAD the photo of view that you used. 
     • Video of Uploading Instructions

Grading: 25 pts

• 5 pts = Questions answered
• 10 pts = Painting complete
• 5 pts = Watercolor techniques
• 5 pts = Painting looks like the actual view