Watercolor Landscape Lesson for Kids

Supplies
Watercolor Paint
1/2 Sheet of Watercolor Paper
Watercolor Paint Brush (Large Flat and small round)
Water in a container
Paper towel or rag
Steps
1. Tape edges of Paper (optional)
2. Mix up a puddle of paint and add blue to it (or another dark color). It should be light
3. Paint the entire paper with that color
4. Wait for it to dry (practice painting trees while you wait)
5. Add a little more color to your puddle or use the same color, and paint mountains in the
distance (background). These should be higher on the paper, more than half way up it.
6. After it dries, add a little more color to your puddle and paint another mountain range
(middle ground)
7. Add more color to your puddle and paint trees (foreground). I will show you a few ways to
paint pine trees but you can paint them however you would like.
8. After it is dry take the tape off
Adaptions
If it is so really hard to wait for the layers to dry, instead of painting one landscape on half of a sheet of paper, paint two on one sheet. Divide it with masking tape. Then you can work in one
while the other one is drying.
Extensions
Go outside, look out a window, or look at a photo of a landscape.
What happens to colors as things get further away from us?
What happens to details as things get further away from us?
Why do things change when they move further away?

Try this technique using two colors, a cool color and a warm color
Homework
Paint a new landscape or city scape
Vocabulary
Monochromatic
Background
Foreground
Middle ground
Tips
*Make sure you have adult supervision if you use a blowdryer!!
You can always use a blowdryer to speed up the drying time
Make sure the layers are dry before you start the next
This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
Music A Piano Tale by Immersive Music
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