week three.

First Grade:
My five minute demo was showing them resist with a white crayon on white paper and doing a wash with tempera paint. I showed them the "white" piece of paper (that I had already drawn a design on), and then washed over it. One student said that I was magic. I told them I would show them how to use magic, too.
I have one student in class who is very much "I can't draw." Which bums me out because he's only in first grade. So I worked with him a lot. Unfortunately, while I was working with him, other students discovered mixing the paints.... which would be fine, except that it made clean up that much more difficult. They had done such a good job last week, I may have let my guard down a little. But there was way too much chatting and fooling around. No painting next week for firsts.


Fifth Grade:
We talked about painting from the back to the front and "wet on dry" painting. Then they were off. I don't know what it was- must have been something in the air today, but both classes wanted to splatter their paint off the end of their brushes. Which wouldn't be a huge issue for me, except this group really needs to work on the whole "teamwork" thing... man. Lots of "he did it, not me's" and whiney voices. Not okay. It's a good thing they did a good job cleaning up. Next week we will talk about Pollock. For sure.