Watercolor Family Paintings

Our 2nd Graders have been working on these beautiful Family Portraits. We have been talking about families, and it has been great to learn about all of my new students' special families! The students were encouraged to add details to each person that reflect their personalities, hobbies, special interests.

Here is a video about a special family and a very special family portrait!
http://safeshare.tv/w/dviClJYySJ 

Here are some of her paintings!






We used liquid watercolor for the sky and pan watercolors for the rest



 Students learned how to make the horizon line and overlap people to show perspective










HEre is a link to the watercolor paint I used with this project. I put it in muffin tins or ice cube trays!

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