Site 29

We put all our skills together in Found Color class - color blending, using shade variations to create depth, snorkeling, observing the reef in detail. We drew coral formations at a colorful site in a bay near PICRC. Surrounded by jungle, steamy but mercifully shaded, with coral formations like sculptures in a vertical wall, site 29 deserves a much more grandiose name than it has. We tied the boat to a tree and invited the students to explore. And it was magical.

The younger kids who had a hard time focusing were suddenly fully engaged. The older students who had hesitated before jumped into the water to draw. Even I got to try my hand at portraying the reef. Found Color has coalesced into something that is more than the sum of its parts. 

Think for a second - how would you draw this coral? 
Could you capture the color, the texture, the shape? 
Seen at Site 29. Photo by Cas Grupstra.

One of our students painting while snorkeling.

A student hard at work underwater.

Capturing the colors of the reef.