9am Wonder Arts: Wet on Wet Watercolor, Clay, Shadow Screen

This week we used a Waldorf watercolor method called Wet on Wet watercolor.
We soaked the heavy "watercolor" paper in water for about 15 - 20 minutes and then the children used liquid watercolor to paint.
"Watercolor is a medium that requires great discipline, says Waldorf Teacher Helena Niiva, you have to learn when to let go and allow the colors to live and also when to exercise more control."







I believe it's crucial that children have contact with this basic elemental material that has been used by humans for thousands of years. Formed from the weathering of rocks, clay can range in color from white, grey, reddish brown, etc...

Claywork can be a language for exploring and communicating ideas. It can be an exciting experience for children to discover that they have made something with a 'back' and 'sides' as well as a 'front' and even an 'inside' and an 'underneath'.

-An excerpt from Rapunzel's Supermarket by Ursula Kolbe p.66













Around the house and the countryside

it stays nearby and accompanies you,

if you step on it it doesn't complain,

water passes over it and it doesn't get wet.

Riddle