I like to do a speed painting challenge with my intro high school students when we introduce painting to encourage them to mix colors, blend paint, and loosen up! This year I put together a video for the KAEA virtual fall conference to explain and demonstrate the concept.
Here are the "rules"
- Use only primary colors + black and white
- No pencils or drawing before painting
- No washing your brush- blend!
- Fill the entire page
- Move quickly before the paint dries
Here are some of last year's student speed paintings. I always grab a bag of ornamental gourds and sometimes some fruit for observation. |
| A student works on a speed painting |
A student's painting on the left and one of my examples on the right. These were similar gourds but mine had green on the bottom.
I used some deceased butterflies I found as examples in my videos but students were happy to stick with gourds for their challenge. Maybe next year advanced students can do a more challenging subject!
