I'm thinking about Bank Street painting. The librarian just lent me his personal copy of Experience and Art: Teaching Children to Paint
by Nancy R. Smith, and I found the ideas really interesting.The idea of children using palettes and mixing has always appealed to me, and this is one way of doing it. We also changed things up a bit, and instead of painting at the easel, we painted on giant paper on the table. Everyone made a painting today, and they really concentrated on lines and shapes, as well as the feel of their movements. Pretty interesting stuff.
I find it a little to structured for my everyday tastes, but there are some nice ideas embedded.
