When we finished the goldfish bowl, I had them divide their paper into 3 sections. Then use a different colored crayon to draw a pattern in each section (dots, stripes, hearts, zig zags, etc). Tell them to keep it simple because they have to cover the whole section with it!
Then when we watercolored, we did the fishbowl first, and then they used a different color for each of their sections. They can paint right over the crayon since it will resist the paint (makes it much faster than trying to paint around all their stripes or dots).
I think they turned out great and the kids are learning better watercolor techniques. The orange brushes that come with the watercolor paints aren't good for these big areas of color... you just can't get enough water on the brush. Grab a set of the green brushes (with the pointy tips). They work really well
It looks like the last student in your examples outlined the goldfish bowl with crayon which seemed to help the keep the watercolor from the background from running into the fishbowl watercolor. Would you recommend having them all do it that way?
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DeleteI had them paint a gray border around the top of their goldfish bowls. It looks like this student did it around the whole bowl. I think this is painted on at the end, not done in crayon during the first part of the project, but it might be interesting to try! I think it looks nice.. I just get worried about them painting with black when not everything is dry, as it will bleed into the other colors.
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