I am working on expressive painting with my grade 7s, and naturally, we looked into German/Austrian Expressionism and Fauvism. We are creating simple portraits to build on from our previous unit and the students were introduced to scumbling.
For their painting, they will be evaluated on composition, brushwork and their use of colour. My goal is to loosen the students up when it comes to painting and to seriously consider how they utilise colour and if applicable, blending. To assist them, they first toned their papers to provide a middle tone to show through their work.
I was going to be absent for a class and created the following painting (time-lapse) in 30 minutes to demonstrate how being organised with a colour palette can speed up the process and for students not too worry so much about details. The students have two 70 minute classes to paint theirs. After this, we’ll move onto printmaking!
