John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Exploring Weather Conditions in Paintings
Enrich your science instructional activity with watercolors! This lesson plan contains assessment criteria, links to more information, and step-by-step ideas to cultivate your learners' knowledge about weather conditions.
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Watercolor painting.com: A Very Brief History of Acrylic Paint
This timeline explains the emergence of acrylic paint into the art arena.
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Watercolor painting.com: Creating Journal Art
Journaling with words or pictures can be a great way to empty and open your mind. Here's a no fail art lesson that will have you seeing things out of thoughtless lines and squiggles.
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Design and Colour
A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Adolf Dehn
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Adolf Dehn is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with watercolors (including his three books on the subject).
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charlotte Cushman
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Charlotte Cushman is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with a variety of mediums, though her primary focus was with...
Digital History
Digital History: Water Color Sketchbook by Private Henry Berckhoff
What did the Civil War look like to the soldiers who fought in it? The pictures in this exhibition were drawn by a young Union soldier, Henry Berckhoff, during the war. His drawings allow us to see the Civil War through a soldier's eyes.
EL Education
El Education: A Book of Poetry
This is a book of poetry written by a 6th grade class. They worked with their English teacher and their visual art teacher to create watercolors on which they superimposed their poems to create this book.
EL Education
El Education: Deer Watercolor
This watercolor painting was done by a 6th grade student from the Shutesbury Elementary School, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Watercolor art was a class-wide study in the classroom, and students took on personal watercolor projects...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: You Too Can Haiku
Here's a creative lesson for young scholars to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Oil and Water Art Project
Students will create art by mixing watercolors with vegetable oil. By mixing the liquids, students can experiment the different properties of liquids. Lesson is developed to be a culminating project for a unit on liquids.
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Studio Antiques and Fine Art Incorporated
A tremendous display of fine art complete with the artist's bio and studio address, as well as the type of painting it is (oil painting, water color etc.) The font size on this site is small but readable.
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Captain Watercolor
Simple and helpful video tutorials on watercolor painting. You can find beginning, intermediate, and advanced lessons to view and try yourself. You will be amazed at the number of topics covered.
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National Gallery of Australia: Constable: Land, Sea, and Sky
Online counterpart to a retrospective of the work of landscape artist John Constable displays and comments on over one-hundred watercolors, oils, and drawings by the artist. An excellent resource for in-depth studies of landscapes,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Watercolor Butterflies Craft
This website shows learners how to make their own watercolors to decorate their butterfly.
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Create a Mood With Color Key
Clearly defines high and low key color pallets. Provides visual examples and links to other color concepts. Attention is directed to watercolor painting, but can be applied to other painting methods.
Crayola
Crayola Asian Landscape Scroll
Here's a lesson plan for students of any age! Children use Chinese scroll painting as inspiration to create their own version of this ancient art form. Provides resources and adaptations as well. You need to register to view the page,...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Howard Cook
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Howard Cook is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with various mediums, including oil, pastel, and watercolors.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Watercolor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage explains the process of watercolor painting. It includes comprehension questions and a teacher guide and can be used as both a read-aloud exercise and an individual practice tool.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Nga Kids: Inside Scoop: Winslow Homer [Pdf]
A printable kid-friendly introduction to the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
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National Museum of Australia: Banks' Florilegium: From Plant to Print
A series of plant specimen photographs from the ecosystems of Australia depicted as sketches and watercolors.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Qashqa'i
The Qashqa'i are tribally organized, Turkic-speaking, nomadic pastoralists and agriculturists who live in southwestern Iran. They are Shia Muslims, unlike most of Iran's other minorities, who are either Sunni Muslims, Christians, Jews,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Explore the Writing Process Through Painting [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students imagine their dream destination spots and sketch them. They use basic watercolor painting techniques to paint their images and follow this by writing descriptions. In groups, they then compile a...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Paint a Wet Into Wet Watercolor
"Wet-into-wet" painting is an interesting painting technique described in this website. Included are example images and "Tips and Tricks" for creating your masterpiece.
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