When I was a child I loved to lay on my back in the cool summer grass and gaze up at the passing clouds as I chewed on a freshly picked clover or a sprig of spearmint. I’d play the game of looking for familiar shapes in the ever changing cloud formations.

My friends and I recently played a similar game, substituting watercolor and ink for the clouds. It’s hard to get messy fingers with clouds and we all know how important it is to get your hands dirty once in a while.

We applied color to the paper with brushes, droppers, and lots of water allowing the color to spread on it’s own.

When the paper was dry we studied it from every angle, looking for familiar shapes.

When we found a shape we used a black pen to outline it and fill in a few details. We started out working on larger pieces of paper but later switched to ATC sized pieces. We decided that it is actually easier to find images in the smaller pieces than it was in the larger ones. Try this and see what you think.