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Painting Like Pollock

By Matt Mazur, posted on Dec 10, 2025

Watercolor painting is a perfect medium for teaching the color properties of hue, value, and intensity. By using some fun and experimental techniques, beginning art students can explore the basics of art without feeling a need for perfection. Students will learn all about how color, line, and movement can be manipulated into a very sophisticated abstract design, while loosening up and not feeling the need to create something that looks “real” or “perfect.”

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