Sketch: Bar in Toulouse
Datum
Aquarell
Bar in Toulouse, Aquarell mit Stift, Berlin 1979
For art projects with children, I was always thinking of new approaches that are easy to implement without a lot of preparatory work. This technique combines brush painting with pencil drawing. The watercolor pencils made it possible.
A first wash (painting process) is created for the background in very delicate colors. In a second wash, the shaded, dark areas are added. The final step consists of highlighting details and joining areas with the watercolor pencil.
The advantage of this technique is that the painting process, which is often inhibited by the „oppressive“ dominance of white on the sheet, is completed relatively quickly and easily, meaning that the sheet is given a color and shape relatively quickly and the pupil cannot do anything „wrong“. The pencil can now be used to enclose areas whose coloring has gone beyond the imagined boundaries.
This sheet was created as a topic suggestion „in a bar“ by 11-year-old pupils within 10 minutes in front of their eyes, during which I told them something about Paceko, a dog. The curiosity to try this out for themselves was enormous, even in a rather absent-minded autistic child. It was important to them that you could recognize what they had drawn. However, the pencil drawing made this easy. Each pupil had a story to tell about their picture.
