9. Week Six: The Studio as a Place for Multifarious Creativity

By the sixth and final meeting the students were engaging in a wide variety of painterly activities. In addition to rhubarb leafs, pretzels were being used to stamp images onto the tabletops. In other places latex paint was applied in thick globs so that it could be peeled off and used as stickers when dry. The classroom wall under the whiteboard was first painted white and then a decorative boarder was added. A student painted her hands a silvery blue to look like a statue. Works on construction paper from the previous weeks were taped together to create large multi-paneled works. More tabletops were painted, this time with cartoon heads and figures intermingled with abstract splats. Students used palette knifes to scrape through layers of paint to reveal old markings underneath. Even bricks found outside the backdoor of our classroom were used as a surface on which to paint.