The Extra Lesson Painting Lesson "Yellow sun Blue sky"

Yellow Sun in Blue Sky

This is a wet on wet watercolour painting exercise so you start by soaking your watercolour paper, lay it on a painting board and use a clean sponge to press it town to the board pushing out any air bubbles and taking off any pools of water on the paper.

The child starts by painting a ball of golden yellow in the centre of the page. They should have the centre be deep yellow and have it lighten as it reaches the edge of the ball.

Then they use ultramarine blue and starting on the edges of the paper draw the blue into the centre without touching the yellow. They should have a deep blue at the edge and gradually becoming lighter as it reaches the yellow sun.

The next painting lesson you have them reverse the order - blue sky reaching in first, then paint the sun.

You repeat this lesson until the child can create that balanced colour graded image. After they can do that you move onto using a cool and warm yellow and a cool and warm blue, then they can add another motif along with the sun, then create a whole composition.

Now this is their Extra Lesson work - by all means let them just paint at other times!

This painting exercise is about balance - it is therapy for anxiety. "It allows the child to let go and draw themselves together" There is a lot in The Extra Lesson, and all sensory integration work about expansion and contraction.

Nature Girl LOVES doing this.