Art: Observational Painting

The girls practiced the new skill of observational drawing focused on a jar of daffodils.  They drew with blue or purple paint looking carefully at the shapes of the flowers.  Then, they added color noticing that the more colors, the more realistic the flowers looked.  After two painting sessions the girls looked at all the paintings together.  They noticed the similarities and reflected on the question: Why are all the paintings different if everyone painted the same thing.  Their answers included   awareness of perspective, color, size and personalized mark making.