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Students Examples

The childrens examples below are aged between 5 years and 9 years old. This is an afterschool class based on the 8 week workshop.
All children paint the same project, as I have between 10-15 children in each class.

Volcano Fantasy: The students voted on painting a volcano. I took this opportunity to teach them about glazing. There are many glazing layers of cadmium red volcano overyellow and white paint. They did the smoke from the volcano with their fingers. The paintings are acrylic on a 16" x 20" canvas, the girls added a pegasus and the boys a terradactyl.

Beach Scene with tree: This painting even though it may look easy, has been the most challenging I have done with children.It required them using a liner brush, getting the paint to the right consistency.

Rainforest painting number one: I love doing rainforests with the children. I get a real kick out of watching them progress along in these ones. During all my classes I try and add information about environmental issues and hopefully inspire them to be little wildlife and environmental warriors.

The reference material for this painting was brought in by one of my adult students. It was from a magazine, I thought it would be a great one for the children to do.

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