Resistance Is OK for Students if it's Wax Resistance

If you look closely at this fine watercolor, you can see clearly what the subject matter is ( which is somewhat unique for young children when tackling realism with watercolor). What we did here in this beautiful painting is to begin by placing a sheet of wax paper over a nice quality watercolor paper. We used a ruler and scratched various lines into the paper using a soft pencil so the wax paper left lines of wax on the paper. We then drew something. Anything! The trick here was to divide the positive shapes and negative shapes by using cool or warm colors; do not combine warms and cools. Voila! Each tiny shape required a new color mix, so it would be different from the color next to it, but still either a cool or a warm color. I think this turned out very nicely!