Warren Central High School was awarded an Arts Inclusion Award titled, "TREES!TREES!TREES!". The award paid for the wonderful supplies needed for this project including, Water Mixable Oil paint sets, acrylic paint, gloves, canvas boards, watercolor paper, and Dorlands Cold Wax. I was the artist and I loved teaching and demonstrating the process as well as showing the students my own work! We looked at the art of Wolf Kahn for inspiration of colors and style. Partnering with Alice Orange, art educator was so much fun! She has a colorful, organized art room full of inspiring art work! Her students were highly motivated and seemed to really enjoy learning and creating. Fun fact! Alice was one of my elementary art students at Natcher elementary!
The first step in the process of creating the Cold Wax painting is to create a sketch for your idea paying attention to the composition. Then decide what colors will work well as your undercolor and that is what you will paint your canvas using the acrylic paint. Acrylic paint has plastic pigment and drys very fast so it is perfect for this. Some students chose more than one color and some students chose a light to dark effect.
I love being in a classroom! Does it show?
Day #2 we put on the gloves and mixed the oil paint colors with the Dorlands cold wax and applied! A little messy but so worth it!
Once the wax is applied then you begin the scraping off to create the landscape with trees.
