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Lazure Painting: Entrance to Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School

Posted in Uncategorized, Gallery format and tagged anthroposophy, layered watercolor, lazure, lazure painting, lazuring, painting, waldorf wall painting, watercolor painting technique on July 11, 2015 by saraparrilli. 5 Comments

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Grade 3 Creation paintings and Grade 5 Botany. It’s hard to explain this and eventually I will try to write a book about it, but the longer you stay just in the realm of color, the better (in reference specifically to teaching). I actually don’t show my sample paintings to younger children and only make them more detailed as a means of living into the imagery more deeply, ONLY after allowing the forms to arise out of the color. To truly do that is nearly impossible. We are so quick to make things realistic just as we see them in the material world. Hold off as long as you can because then the magic really begins to happen. The thing to let go of is size and proportion... Oh we need a “tree” with a trunk, leaves, etc.. OR just paint the paint essence of the tree—greenness, leaves moving out of the color, forget the trunk and make giant fruit. I can’t say all of these went that way but a clearer picture of what to do is forming. Yes, we are painting recognizable forms, but the paintings are always more beautiful when they arise out of a different gesture. #waldorfeducation #waldorfwatercolor #waldorfwatercolourpainting #wetonwetwatercolor #stockmarpaints #waldorfart

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Make it simple. And then make it simple again. And then maybe add something.

Just messing around with some motifs...

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