Summer Zoom Painting- Cats

Good afternoon!

I hope you had an opportunity to enjoy the week and spend time with your families. 

Small skill start-

Today, I talked about bleeds and blooms. They were both likely to happen and there’s not always much you can do about either (there are fixes and workarounds, but that’s not the point of today’s lesson), so I just wanted your children to be aware of what they were and what they looked like and that it was ok if they happened. 

A bleed is when you put two colors next to each other and one of them spreads into the other. 

A bloom occurs when you put a very wet color on top of a color that is already drying. It will leave a line of pigment around the edge of whatever you painted. (This can be avoided by painting on wet paper, but that only works in certain situations)

Painting together-

Today, we painted Cats. Here are our projects. 

Jeremiah painted our three cats. I just painted cats. 

We did not finish during painting time. In order to do the faces, the cats needed to be very dry. Jeremiah used pen to finish his faces and I grabbed my acrylics to finish mine. 

If you missed or need a reference, click the link to watch the video or watch it again. Remember to let your paint dry thoroughly before trying to put faces over. If it is still wet, you will either ruin your painting or ruin your drawing instrument. Or both. 

Our verse for the day was Psalm 136: 25-26 He gives food to all creatures, for His gracious love is everlasting. Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his gracious love is everlasting. 

We had some really good discussion about cats and not being in the Bible, despite evidence that they were domesticated in that timeframe. And talked about lions being used as multiple different examples in the Bible, just not any tiny house lion references. Lots of very thoughtful biblical and extra biblical conversation about our feline friends. 

At home practice-

This week, I want your kids to work with paint to see how bleeds and blooms can affect their painting. Reverse coloring books seem to have become pretty popular, so they’re going to make their own. 

Start with wetting the entire page. Then, as it dries, add colors to it in various amounts and wetnesses and strokes. Just have fun watching it move and swirl. When it is completely dry, they can outline any blooms or bleeds they find (optional). It’s really a fun activity and can teach a lot about how watercolor moves against each other. 

Hope that if you wanted to attend today and couldn’t, you get to come next week. And if you just like doing the work alone, that you can find time to do that this week!