Mountain Song Waldorf Teacher Training
Painting with Sara Parrilli
Stockmar Paint Mixing Tutorial
The video to the left offers a tutorial in how to mix the Stockmar paints for your class. Sara provides instructions on proportions for diluting the paint in a large jar for your class, and how to fill the little jars the students receive.
These instructions allow for more concentrated pigments in the bottom of the student’s jars, and more dilute pigment toward the top of the jar. She also shows how to tilt the jars so students can access different strengths of pigment.
Waldorf Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Painting Lessons for Teachers
1 - Introduction to Waldorf Watercolors
Video 1: Please follow the directions in the video and create the 6 color study paintings. Write a reflection on your experiences in completing these paintings, with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all your paintings together. Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection.
2 - Why Wet-on-Wet Watercolor and
Working with Multiple Colors Grades 1-2
Video 2: Please follow the directions in the video and create at least 6 paintings of colors meeting. Write a reflection on your experiences in completing these paintings, with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all your paintings together. Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection.
3 - From Color into Form: Painting in Grade 3
Video 3: Please watch the video to learn about creating form from the colors themselves. Suggested exercise: Follow along in the video and create the 2 paintings Sara shows in order to practice wet-on-wet watercolor painting as a semi-guided experience. Required: Using the tools discussed thus far, create your own painting exercise for a creation story of your choice. Write a reflection with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all your paintings together. Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection.
4 - Human and Animal Block in Grade 4 - Octopus
Video 4: Please watch the video to learn about painting animals in Grade 4. Option 1: Follow along with the video in a guided painting experience, painting your own rendition. Note – video is time-lapsed, so you will need to pause it to follow and paint. Option 2: Choose your own animal to paint. What are its characteristics? Habitat? What colors might express it? Keep the children in mind. Write a reflection with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all paintings together (if more than one). Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection.
5 - Botany Painting in Grade 5: Dandelion
Video 5: Part 1 — See if you can find some dandelions in your area. Make note of where they are and their forms. Then follow this video to paint a dandelion. Part 2 — Choose a different flower that grows in your local environment. Create your own painting experience working with this particular flower. Write a reflection with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all your paintings together. Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection.
6 - Painting Landscapes in Grades 6-8
Video 6: Paint 2-3 or more landscape attempts. See Sara’s notes at the end of the video about working from your own sketches or photos. Write a reflection with at least 3 questions. Take one photo of all your paintings together. Send Sara your photo of your paintings and your reflection. Note that she also emphasizes that she wants your photo of your students’ paintings hanging on the walls so that they see their own work and other students’ work.