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



Approach to Balance 
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




Should it be important to teach elementary students to draw or paint accurately, or, for that matter, create cute little crafty works during art classes?



After many years teaching essentially all the school grades, from elementary to high school students and college, I concluded that the art experience needs a serious revisit; profound philosophy adjustments and a great consideration of critical thinking, strong work process, problem solving, and a clear understanding of imagination, creativity works and how that alone is associated with everything we do.  

The art classroom needs to be inspired through switching and arranging areas of work under the principles of a workshop.

This new ‘Art Room’ should be sufficient accommodations depending on our students' ages and needs; students should feel invited, content, and safe in the ‘Making of Art Experience’.


The Art Experience is to present solutions and strong bases that are to give our students values, determination, and many new and important skills, like the power of looking closer, reasoning, critical mind, easy manners in the exercise of questioning, and the autonomy to understand the missteps, allowing them to solve problems.


Students should be guided to look with eyes, mind, and heart aligned towards one goal; to review and study the different ways out and to notice the best options, understanding the properties of the materials and the correct use of tools. 

Moreover, value the outcomes and the experiences in unique ways, the satisfaction of the making, and everything that was involved during the process.


The new art workshop should create and build great readers, thinkers, and researchers. Should assure them that each person has a unique skill, but any skill needs imagination and creativity. Comprehending that as many bodies are working on the same art project, many different representations could be observed when the work of art is finished.


Let's make a turn for the better and embrace the change. We should find new bright minds, overall better grades, and the rise of more engineers, architects, or scientists, and happier faces on their way to better days.

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