Text/Su Yaofang (Nanning Rainbow Bridge School)
? I am very fortunate to continue to teach part of the art courses for grades 2, 3 and 5 this semester. These include wet watercolor and beeswax in the second grade, clay sculpture and calligraphy in the third grade, and seal carving and clay sculpture in the fifth grade. These courses have similarities, but the differences in course content and presentation are also very obvious.
? Wet watercolor is a course that I like to take, not only because the colors are gorgeous, but more importantly, it has a great impact on balancing the inside and outside of children, nourishing the etheric body, and expressing inner emotions. help.
When the children were in first grade, I asked them to do a lot of color exercises, the blending and alternation of colors, the changes in color shades, letting the colors flow and express as much as they wanted, without letting them Children draw anything tangible. In second grade, slowly let children shape some simple objects from colors. Simple objects can be animals in fables or plants in seasons. With a lot of practice in the blending and flowing of colors in first grade, by second grade, children can boldly use their pens to make pictures appear with beautiful colors.
? During the teaching process, it is very important for children to let children discover two colors or three colors overlapping together to get another more beautiful color. If a child paints dirty colors with wet watercolor, he will not feel beautiful or enjoy it. So when preparing paints, the teacher can think about which colors are needed for the painting, and then which colors blend in. Together we can get another beautiful color, so I will just prepare these paints for them.
? In the previous training of primary school teachers, Teacher Tomi once said that for children in lower grades, it is very important for their paintings to show the quality of light. Whether it is the darkness or cold of winter, the picture will definitely be With the warmth of light. Therefore, many of the paintings of our second-grade children are full of light. Their hearts are full of yearning for light. Children with light in their hearts will retain their pure hearts like angels.
Wet watercolor is a course that requires a lot of preparation work in advance. Mixing paints, wiping the drawing board, soaking paper, dividing paints, filling water, and getting towels and brushes. The orderly process will help children establish internal order. Except for mixing the paint, all other work is done by the children themselves.
? Each class begins with the nursery rhymes before class calling the children back to gather, to quietly singing gentle songs and slowly entering the classroom, and then the children take various painting items in an orderly manner and sit down quietly. The teacher started telling stories until the children completed their works with devotion and then slowly packed up their supplies. The flow of the entire classroom continued to flow in an orderly manner. Sometimes depending on the state of the children, if they are tired or bored before class, I will also play some simple games to help wake them up before entering the classroom so that they can follow the teacher.
? Every time I take a wet watercolor course, I feel warm and at ease, and my heart is always filled with beautiful emotions.
?In the second half of the semester, I added wet watercolor for correction exercises. This is very helpful for children's left and right development, hand-eye coordination, and breathing regulation. Another very important point is that I let the children draw while standing, with their feet on the ground and their posture correct before they can pick up the brush. In this process, the teacher can well observe which children have unbalanced left and right development, which children cannot stand up straight, and which children cannot hold a pen correctly. Before doing the correction of wet watercolor, I will also think about which aspects are easy to smudge the pen and paint, and I need to pay more attention when preparing. Later, the children got better and better, and were able to take care of their own pens and paints, and they became more and more confident in drawing corrections.
The above is a partial summary of the wet watercolor course in the first semester of the second grade. I think the first graders should not rush to draw shapes, but should continue to experience colors and let the colors touch, blend and change with each other, which will lay a very good foundation for the children.
Next term I recommend giving children wet watercolor exercises in complementary colors to help with the development of duality.
?As a Waldorf watercolor teacher, you should be interested in the things around you all the time, and discover the color changes around you every day, a tree, a grass, a flower Flowers, the colors of the sky and the earth, how they change in each season. If you have a pair of eyes that discover beauty, your children will naturally grow up following the teacher.