Professional development for teachers and homeschool parents
Join a master teacher in exploring watercolor painting in the early grades!
In this highly experiential, two-day workshop you will learn, create in, and practice the medium of watercolor painting. We’ll explore ways to introduce the language of color into the early grades curricula as you work on seasonal themes, curriculum inspirations, color dialogues, painting techniques, and the important practical work of set up and clean up with children.
First and second grade paintings will lead you into third grade creation themes, where you will learn how to layer colors to achieve darkness, and how to bring color into form. Through the process you’ll discover how to allow shapes and elements to emerge, including light, fire, and earth; sun, moon, and stars; plants, birds, fishes, and animals; and the human being itself.
Takeaways will include:
- Facility with the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, including color dominance versus harmony, and balancing with complimentary colors
- Creating color dialogues
- The painting process, including wetting the paper, holding the brush, brush strokes, and set up and clean up with children
- Ways to establish a mood in your classroom conducive to an artistic process
Your takeaway will be the paintings you produce and a newfound knowledge and inspiration for creating watercolor painting with your class.
Instructor
Renate Kurth is a longtime Waldorf educator and beloved master teacher. Renate’s Waldorf teaching career began in the Toronto Waldorf School in the 1970s; in the 1980s, she was part of the founding group—and the first administrator—of Toronto’s Waldorf Academy. In 2011 she retired after decades of serving on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School where she took several classes from first through eighth grades and taught high school chemistry. Since then, she continues to teach and lecture on Waldorf Education. Renate graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and genetics and did her Waldorf teacher training at Emerson College in England.
Your workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School.
Monday, July 2: Classes run 8:30-5:30pm
An hour is given for lunch, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks
Fee
$360 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee).
Discount Options
10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.)
Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)
Schools making 11 registrations for any combination of 2,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.)
Questions?
Please contact Penelope-Myles Voss, Admissions, Alumni, and Summer Coordinator, at [email protected] or 845-425-0055 x20
Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
