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After an extensive drawing unit, students began to believe in their ability to draw. Some knew they could draw, but some knew they could not. I told them I would teach them, and they listened, and improved, little by little. Now those same students are painting. They are drawing with liquid medium instead of dry medium. They have just completed a unit where they learned about Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists from the nineteenth century in Paris, France. They created their own study of a master work by an artist of their choosing. Some students emulated van Gogh and Cezanne, while others studied the works of Manet and Renoir. A nicer surface to paint from would be a tabletop easel. My budding artists worked on the drafting tables to complete their paintings. The surface was flat, and students supported their arms on the tabletop. If their paintings were set at an upright angel, it would help them to develop stronger muscle development in their hands and forearms for a stronger mark quality. Since there is not enough space in the art room with the drafting tables now set up, individual easels would not work. But a portable easel that could be placed on the tabletop or taken outside and set up on a picnic table for “en plein air” painting on a nice day would be most beneficial to a new art room. It is one thing to tell a student how van Gogh carried his art supplies across Holland in search of pictorial stimulation, and how the invention of a paint tube revolutionized painting and ushered in the Impressionist art movement, but another thing for the students to experience “en plein air” painting themselves.

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After an extensive drawing unit, students began to believe in their ability to draw. Some knew they could draw, but some knew they could not. I told them I would teach them, and they listened, and improved, little by little. Now those same students are painting. They are drawing with liquid medium instead of dry medium. They have just completed a unit where they learned about Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists from the nineteenth century in Paris, France. They created their own study of a master work by an artist of their choosing. Some students emulated van Gogh and Cezanne, while others studied the works of Manet and Renoir. A nicer surface to paint from would be a tabletop easel. My budding artists worked on the drafting tables to complete their paintings. The surface was flat, and students supported their arms on the tabletop. If their paintings were set at an upright angel, it would help them to develop stronger muscle development in their hands and forearms for a stronger mark quality. Since there is not enough space in the art room with the drafting tables now set up, individual easels would not work. But a portable easel that could be placed on the tabletop or taken outside and set up on a picnic table for “en plein air” painting on a nice day would be most beneficial to a new art room. It is one thing to tell a student how van Gogh carried his art supplies across Holland in search of pictorial stimulation, and how the invention of a paint tube revolutionized painting and ushered in the Impressionist art movement, but another thing for the students to experience “en plein air” painting themselves.

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