We started this unit by having a discussion about the Singapore river in the past. The children viewed a few monochrome photographs of the river and the activities near it. The river cleanup took 10 years and millions of dollars. Then we move on to discuss pioneer artist's painting by Liu Kang.
The children drew their version of Life by the River using jumbo permanent black markers and I read to them the story 'Sky Color' by Peter Reynolds to weave in painting techniques. We took a lesson to practise the painting routines using watercolour cakes on an experimental paper first (see above photo).
The next time I'm doing this, I'll be getting the children to sketch on their mini-whiteboards first and using jumbo markers to do their drawings directly.
