Permeable Watersheds
Students working in the early morning fog to create their permeable watersheds animation.
For our most recent NIH-SEPA workshop for teachers, I created a guided paint-along project using tempera on wet paper. The movement of the watery paint through the sky, mountains, fields, and ocean was part of our discussion on the permeability of watersheds. Everything is connected, by water.
I took this paint-along project to my college class, where students created one painting per week, each week for four weeks.
We painted outside, on wet paper. This is a process that I use for art therapy workshops because it is meditative and rewarding
(Note: The recording of the project process was lost - I will post when it is re-recorded.)
After completing a grid of 40 paintings, we used them as animation cells to create this stop-motion film for the Monterey Ocean Arts festival. We intend the video to play looping on a monitor near the grid of 40 paintings hanging on the wall.
Thank you to Lanier Sammons for creating the music.
Edited by Mary Sullivan.
Photographed by Maritza Juarez and Giovana Roskosz Reis.
Paintings by: Karen Becerra, Alexis Casas, Charlie Claudino, Morgan Flores, Jayson Gonzales, Maritza Juarez, Andy Rabago, Betty Ramirez-Mendez, Alex Romero, Giovana Roskosz Reis, Mary Sullivan, Nicholas Tokushige and Connor Whorl.
