Our second painting day making purple. This time we painted on paper that had been pre-soaked in water. It’s amazing how much variation can emerge from just two colors and water! Some of the children only wanted to make pink, some wanted to use extra water, some wanted to mix the colors a lot and some not so much. Artistic expression at this age is largely about the felt experience: big circular movements, back and forth movements, witnessing the changes as the painting morphs through many different stages of color and saturation. With the wet-on-wet watercolor technique, the paintings change even more as they dry. This technique is explicitly not about representational art, but about experiencing that flowing state of change.