So Many Kittens and Roses... Value Painting time!!! Awww Yusss

Post date: Oct 5, 2014 9:28:39 PM

I'm about ready to drop this project from the curriculum or at least expand it's choice range. Nothing against kittens and roses, they're great, but if there was a way for me to encourage more unorthodox choices, I would pay the heaviest of prices... my first unborn son (for students reading this I'm just being facetious). There's gotta be some way I could push kids into different subject matter, I could require topics, do a random draw of themes from a hat. Maybe force kids to partner up and have pairs pick paintings for each other. Granted they're some great paintings this year, I've got a lot of talented painters. They just seem to be stuck on this project and its simplicity. I don't really mind that much I'm just going to have to switch things up to encourage more experimentation and exploration early on.