We began with a quick warm up worksheet. This worksheet featured all the simple shapes that we would need to combine to create our lions: circles, ovals, upside-down triangles, and the shape of "w". After repeating the shapes on the worksheet we moved on to our lion drawing.
The kids followed along step by step as I demonstrated how to create a lion face from simple shapes. After that the kids traced their lions with permanent marker. (Side note: they were all well aware that using permanent marker required extra caution and care. They were amazingly responsible and careful with them. No mishaps! Nice work, kids!)
After that, a quick lesson in the basics of painting with watercolor including using lots of water and gentle mixing to "wake the paints up", always rinsing between colors and using the top of the paint set for any color mixing. Here are a few process pictures.
After the follow along drawing lesson, I felt it was important to give the kids artistic freedom during the painting section of the project. We discussed that our lions need not be realistic. the kids were free to paint them in any colors they chose. I did encourage them to fill the page with color, but even this was left up to the individual artist in the end. Beautiful work today. Hope you enjoy it.
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