After some brief instruction, including some teacher examples, the students began work.

Some students applied paint by actually touching the brush to the paper.

Other students flicked paint, blew puddles of paint with their breath and turned papers with wet paint to produce dramatic drips.

Occasionally, paint got on the floor, on some clothing and on hands.

A huge perk with watercolor is that it is easily cleanable, and with just once mentioning our expectations of students' cleanliness, all students exceeded our expectations by cleaning up their peers' workspace along with their own.