Watercolors Lesson Plans

Students express themselves with watercolor painting and music. For this Pre-K - 6th grade lesson plan, students experience watercolor painting to a rhythmic beat. Students are encouraged to paint using brush strokes according the beat and rhythm of the music playing.

Students create watercolor paintings using their knowledge of elements of design, value, and texture, discuss concept of art reflecting time and place, review art-related vocabulary, and reflect on their work.

Students paint a watercolor that illustrates twilight. In this visual arts instructional activity, students read the book Twilight Comes Twice and write descriptive sentences about dawn and dusk. Students complete a watercolor painting of a twilight scene.

Students create a self-portrait. In this visual arts instructional activity, students study the artist Jacob Lawrence, and identify the texture and elements of symmetry in his portraits. Students use watercolor paint to create their own self-portrait.

Students make cat drawings from geometric shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, students draw cats by hand using geometric shapes and place them in an environment. Students then color the drawings with watercolor paints. Students review the techniques of drawing, coloring, and water coloring a painting with calico cats.

Students study the watercolor and acrylic work of Geoff Slater and create their own versions of the art. In this line painting lesson plan, students study examples of Geoff Slater art and focus on his line paintings. Students discuss the images and draw a flower shape. Students use watercolor paints to paint the image in lines only.

Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.

Seventh graders examine watercolor painting and works created by artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Once students are familiar with O'Keeffe's work, 7th graders create an original watercolor painting inspired by O'Keeffe.

Students analyze art as a cloud pattern activity. For this cloud and art lesson, students view April Gornik's painting 'The Back of the Storm' and make connections between science and art. Students observe cloud patterns for one week and compare their observations to the clouds in Gornik's painting. Students then create a watercolor painting of clouds.

Students create a watercolor painting of a color or an object that make the student feel a certain way. They describe how this color makes them feel through writing a short poem.