How Important is to Teach to an Elementary, Middle or High School Students to Draw or Paint Accurately

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Student work (11th grade) - 2011

mix media

Wild Flower

Student work (5th grade) 2012

mix media

My Life

Student Work (12th grade) 2009

cardboard, acrylics and gesso

How important is to teach to an elementary students to draw or paint accurately, or for that matter create cute little crafty works during art classes?

The art experience is in need of a serious change; profound philosophy and a great consideration about critical thinking, strong work process and a clear understanding about how imagination and creativity works are very necessary. The art classroom needs to be re-designed, to be switch and arrange under the principles of a workshop.

This new ‘Art Room’ should be adequate for our student ages, with tools, materials and media; students need to feel invited to the ‘Making Experience’.

The Art Experience will present solutions and strong bases that are to give our student’s self-values, strong minds free of fears, the power of looking closer, reason, critical approach, easy manners to the exercise of questioning, and the autonomy of understand the misstep to then rethink and make it work.

Students will be guided to look with eyes and mind allied towards one goal; to review and study the different ways out and to noticed the best options understanding the property of the materials and the correct use of any tool.

They, the students, will value the outcome, and the experience in a unique way, the satisfaction of the making, and everything that was involved during the process.

The new art workshop should create and build strong minds, should assure them that each person has a unique skill but any skill needs imagination and creativity. A long time ago that one person created the first number, a drawing, using his imagination to do so.

Lets make a turn for the better and embrace the change, we may find an artist or two within each class, but for sure we will see better grades, and the rise of more engineers, architects or scientist, and for sure happier faces on their way to better days.

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