Visit 4: Painting Quintessential Utah

On my fourth visit we picked up where we left off the week before. Students came prepared to start their quintessential Utah paintings. The kids chose subject matter that varied from logos, to landscapes.

The kids chose subject matter that varied from logos to landscapes to a colored map of the state.

When students finished they were invited to come to the front of the room display their work and explain to the class why they chose that image to paint. Students painted what they were able to see in their own backyard and well as state landmarks and their parents' alma mater.

 Mrs. White also joined us in painting with wet on wet depictions of Utah mountains.

Visit 3: Quintessential Place and Watercolor

On my third visit we talked about the meaning of the word quintessential. We talked about places and what makes them important or memorable. I presented some artists, contemporary and historical, that used the importance of places in their work.

Brian Hutchison

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I demonstrated four water color techniques that the students practiced with me on their own papers. We talked about wet on wet, wet on dry, wash, and dry brush. 

In preparing for my next visit students were asked to think of what was quintessentially Utah.