Normally, these books are meant to be read in a week and the projects/ art work/ lessons are done in that time. Partly because I was getting tired a couple of weeks ago but also due to other distractions, we only finished the art work for this last week.
The Gullywasher is a lovely story about growing old and is told in a humourous way. A "gullywasher" is a huge, torrential storm. The boys liked the craziness of the Grandpa and the lovely drawings. I’m not a watercolourist (though I appreciate watercolours) so we did our pictures using watercolour pencils. I like having more control and a pencil will give that to you more than a brush. As The Gullywasher was done in watercolours, I reluctantly submitted and we gave it a go. Here’s mine:
Green stick trees were mentioned in the book and there were a few on one of the pages. We all decided to do landscape scenes and leave the people out.
Stephen wanted to use pastels. I had them on hand as well for either using on their own or with the watercolour. I was half tempted to use them myself…This scene captures the "gullywasher" coming.
Zac’s picture took a while to finish. After the first session, he had done the shadowed part of the old building. The brick/tower part on the end and the shading on the ground were done last week. It doesn’t look like it, but this picture actually took him a long time. He has at least 8 colours in the shadowed sections and had more intricate work to do than the others. In the book, there’s a lady grinding up some meal and chillies hanging on the side of the brick tower.
I let Zac finish before putting in a few others details like pots and chillies as he had spent so much time on it. He wanted to stop after the first session but the picture was only half done at that stage. I gave him a couple of weeks break and then we had another go. It was more a lesson in persistence for him but I think he is secretly pleased he was "encouraged". He knows it looks better now and was proud to display it to Daddy.
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