A recent assignment was to make a color wheel of the seasons. This is my daughter's color wheel. She is learning how to use water colors, as am I. While we love water color paints, they can be tricky, and make you feel like you are hardly in control of what happens in your paper. The bleeding of one color into another, the puddling of too much water in one spot, the wrinkling of the paper -- it all can cause frustration, or it can help you become accepting of this "out-of-control-ness", and help you learn to work with whatever happens. While my daughter isn't crazy about this, I do like the way it turned out, because it expresses her. She is not melancholy or a perfectionist. She is a "fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants" kind of girl, and I think this depicts her very well. I actually love this, in her and in her art.
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