Possibilities of teaching watercolor technique in the lower grades of primary school

Cilj ovog istraživanja jest prikazati mogućnosti rada u tehnici akvarela u razrednoj nastavi koje na kreativan i stručan način ostvaruju likovne pojmove propisane Nacionalnim kurikulumom. Istraživanje je provedeno u drugom razredu jedne osnovne škole u Osijeku s 21 učenikom. Uzorak čini osamnaest likovnih radova učenika. U četiri su tjedna provedena četiri nastavna sata iz predmeta Likovne kulture. Na sva četiri sata učenici su slikali koristeći se akvarelom. Na prvome satu, učenici su izrazili svoje osjećaje uz pomoć osnovnih i izvedenih boja slikajući mokro na mokro. Na drugom satu učenici su na postojeću sliku s prvog nastavnog sata geometrijskim oblicima prikazali izgled tepiha. Učenici su na trećem satu puhanjem kroz slamke nanosili boju po papiru. Četvrti je sat podsjetio učenike na skalu boje koju susreću u prirodi, dugu. Učenici su na svakom satu ponovili prethodno usvojene likovne pojmove i kako se radi u slikarskoj tehnici akvarel. Nakon provedenog istraživanja prikazane su mogućnosti slikarske tehnike akvarela praćene pripravama koje sadrže likovne pojmove predložene Kurikulumom.The aim of this research is to present the possibilities of working in the technique of watercolors in the classroom, which in a creative and professional way realize the artistic concepts prescribed by the National curriculum. The research was conducted in the second grade of an elementary school in Osijek with 21 students. The sample consists of 18 art works of students. In four weeks, four teaching hours in the subject of Art Education were conducted. For all four hours, the students painted using watercolors. In the first lesson, students expressed their feelings with the help of primary and secondary colors by painting wet-on-wet. In the second lesson, the students showed the appearance of the carpet in geometric shapes on the existing picture from the first lesson. In the third hour, the students applied paint to the paper by blowing through straws. The fourth lesson reminded the students of the color scale they meet in nature, the rainbow. In each class, the students repeated the previously adopted artistic concepts and how to work in the watercolor painting technique. After the research, the possibilities of watercolor painting technique were presented, followed by preparations that contain artistic concepts proposed by the Curriculum