Art_Painting a Portfolio

The girls started painting with tempera paints using the individual desks as pop-up easels. They painted 4 or 5 painitings independently with an artists' crit in the middle.  They learned to look at their paintings for things that are the SAME and things that are DIFFERENT. Then, they continued painting with intention to paint more the same or more different. This introductory "critique" helps draw out the common art language called "elements" including color, line, shape, texture, space, value, and form.