Charles Demuth is maybe most known for his painting of the number 5, but he has also done a number of buildings and still life watercolors as well as a few painting of vaudeville America, but for this project I wanted to focus on his buildings and the famous number 5.
For this project you will need water color paper, water color paint, a ruler, a pencil, water, brush(es), paper towels, masking tape, and a hard board.
I gave my students a choice of doing a number or letter or a building. If they chose a building I had a few photographs I had taken printed off for them to look at as a reference. If you think you will want to paint a building a photo of a building is something you will want to add to the supplies list.
First thing to do is tape your watercolor paper to a hard board (I use a clipboard typically, but this time I taped ours directly onto the table since it is a hard plastic). You will want to tape along the edges of all four sides. This helps the paper dry flat instead of wavy.
Next draw the number or letter as a large outline or "block" letter or draw the basic outline of your building.
Now take your ruler and draw a few lines at random angles across the entire paper.
Look at each new shape you have made as it's own shape and begin filling in each shape with paint one at a time.
You can paint each shape a different color or similar colors. If you choose to do similar colors I recommend using a slightly different color- for example if you are painting a red brick wall you would want to do one shape red, one darker red, lighter red, orange red, red violet, etc. Hopefully you get the idea. You could also make certain edges of your shape darker or lighter to keep the lines across the page distinctive. Another option is to layer colors of paint over other colors (i.e. paint an area yellow and add green over some of that area and then blue over some of that area).
Once your painting is completely dry and flat you can carefully peel off the tape. While waiting for your painting to dry remember to wash out your brushes and clean up.
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