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| holding the brush can be tricky yet the exploration continues. |
It can be such a wonderful place for exploration of color, of tools, of materials, of drips drips drips.
The easel can be a wonderful space for private work, for friendship painting, for group experiments.
It can be a new experience to stand up to be an artist, to angle your arm, to hold the brush or tool just how you want it so it gets to the paper without paint landing on your shoe.
It can be a new experience to have your paint available on a palette in one hand while painting with the other hand. It can be a new experience to look down, look up, look forward.
The easel is a wonderful place to create the world you know or the world you imagine.
Below are examples of many of the above ideas.
There are a zillion other examples that could have been here - outside paintings, jars of paint, variety of paper surfaces and textiles, squeeze bottles of paint, rolling brushes, scrapers, HANDS in paint, things that sparkle, natural objects, murals being made, easel painting while sitting on a stool...oh, and Music playing or songs being sung while painting.
I hope YOUR classroom has so many different ways to investigate and explore the large tool that is the Easel!
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| stripes of color, mixed colors, and dedication to fill the paper. |
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| purple is all this friend needs to form his lines and shapes. |
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| paint colors, mixing, choices choices choices! |
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| deliberate dots, lines and shapes - individual creations with a friend nearby. |
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| have you ever created a piece of art WITH a friend?? |
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| respecting childrens' ideas, comparisons, and understandings of their world. |
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| group painting is an unique experience to share ideas, laughter, tools, colors. |
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| part 1: the beginning strokes of this boy's world... |
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| part 2: the boy on the right, amid his friends at the easel, has his own plan. |
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| part 3: the boy's completed easel painting... who could have known how he would describe his work unless we asked him, listened to him, ensured that his voice would bring his artwork to life. stunning. |
The art of the easel.
To offer the large tool for children to experiment in ways that are unlike other classroom experiences is a gift.
When is the last time YOU used an easel?
What would YOU paint, explore, test out, invent?
What would YOUR paint colors have to say?
What would YOU have to say?
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