Found Flowers Part 1

Art Clubbers and I started playing with Found Flowers. This is a time consuming technique so we completed just a portion of it, but with all the ingredients to complete the whole thing.

I started class by trying to suspect disbelief that students could actually make something look nice from blobs of color:

Here's another example: you can see how my original blobs of watercolor look nothing like actual flowers :-)

We discussed structure and various string options:

And then proceeded to create various different backgrounds:

After selecting one of the backgrounds we started to refine the flowers:

And completed an entire section with the technique from beginning to end.

Here's my partially made picture, I'll post another blog after I finish the entire thing:

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