Portal Realms: A Watercolor Exploration

Created during my time in grad school for Art Education, the goal of this project was to explore the medium of watercolor and create an analog or a “textbook” for my future students. It contains all of my examples, experiments, and notes from class as well as any additional research.

I was thinking about how I could engage my students and make them want to try things out with watercolors. What about a narrative, a story, where someone is experimenting on their own with watercolors for a purpose? Since I am a fan of comic books, I thought about using a scientist exploring and experimenting with some radioactive material that behaved like watercolors to help him find pathways (portals) to other dimensions. I’m hoping this will get my future students engaged and excited to try different techniques with watercolors.