Well, whaddya know!
I'm back, I'm tired and I'm hungry, even though I had lunch which I felt was not enough even though it was.
Fun wouldn't be the exact word to explain it but it wasn't boring and it was, well, decently engrossing, though I'd say that it was the mothers of the kids who were more interested in learning what I had to teach and don't get me started on the exclamations emitted in gasps of wonderment when I dotted a page with different colors to show how wet on wet works. It's not like I was conjuring fireworks, except it was something so new to everyone that almost the entire time everyone only experimented with that one technique.
I guess watercolours do that to you.
Though my biggest gripe was that very few people brought proper watercolour paper. Almost everyone had regular sketching sheets and No, it's not going to do the trick but I found a way around that and once I gave them drawn out stencils of watermelons and bananas on proper watercolour paper they realized what they should've brought instead and even made notes.
Almost every parent was convinced that their child would be the next Dali and I didn't want to rain on their parade.
But seriously kids have the attention span of a dead mosquito and most of them decided to write their names on sheets and experiment with mixing colours in a way that it felt like there was mud splashing over their pages.
Anyhoo, done and dusted and now I crave caffeine, but settling for a rooibos tea instead cuz purge week.
Tell more, lots of things. I miss..
I'm back, I'm tired and I'm hungry, even though I had lunch which I felt was not enough even though it was.
Fun wouldn't be the exact word to explain it but it wasn't boring and it was, well, decently engrossing, though I'd say that it was the mothers of the kids who were more interested in learning what I had to teach and don't get me started on the exclamations emitted in gasps of wonderment when I dotted a page with different colors to show how wet on wet works. It's not like I was conjuring fireworks, except it was something so new to everyone that almost the entire time everyone only experimented with that one technique.
I guess watercolours do that to you.
Though my biggest gripe was that very few people brought proper watercolour paper. Almost everyone had regular sketching sheets and No, it's not going to do the trick but I found a way around that and once I gave them drawn out stencils of watermelons and bananas on proper watercolour paper they realized what they should've brought instead and even made notes.
Almost every parent was convinced that their child would be the next Dali and I didn't want to rain on their parade.
But seriously kids have the attention span of a dead mosquito and most of them decided to write their names on sheets and experiment with mixing colours in a way that it felt like there was mud splashing over their pages.
Anyhoo, done and dusted and now I crave caffeine, but settling for a rooibos tea instead cuz purge week.
Tell more, lots of things. I miss..
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