Learn Oil Painting - Basic Beginner Steps

Oil paint dries very slowly, Unlike acrylic paints which dry very quickly. Acrylic paint was initially created as an underpainting medium for oil painting.

It is perfectly stable to put a base of acrylic and then place oil paint over it. Linseed oil added to oil paint will extend color, increase flow and increase workability. Oil paint with added medium is called long, oil paint used directly from the tube is called short or stiff.

You place you oil paints on a wooden board called a palette the very best palettes are made of pear wood.

It is very important to understand your paints and know which colors are:

Transparent (see through) Semi Opaque (slightly see through) and opaque (not see through) getting started put as much oil paint on your brush for two strokes three maximum always end your brush stroke on the canvas.

Make sure that you use linseed oil only when you are painting with the wet on wet method or process.

Do not confuse yourself with all of the many other mediums. Wait to discover those when you are more experienced. If you can actually afford the professional paints, definitely go ahead and buy them. You will notice immediately that they are completely different from the student paints.

Always buy the best brushes that you can afford. The Da Vinci brand brushes are the best professional brushes. Buy long handle bushes. The technique is to hold near the end of the handle. When developing talent one point to consider is the ability to take risks. Just play around with your paint however first understand it, only paint at an easel and make sure to stand back from your painting all the time. Never put your expensive brushes in turps when you are working in a session. Go ahead and wipe them clean with paper towels or cloth wash out your brushes in turps or a similar solvent at the end of a session and then be sure to clean immediately with soapy water.

Preparing the canvas the foundation of you piece

It is quite essential that you put on the first underpainting or wash on your canvas. This takes away the glare of the white (which will reflect back at you, quite annoying) and the more layers of paint you get onto your canvas the better and the more professional looking your painting, the more luminous the paint ant the more the painting will sing out with color and texture.

Traditionally an earth color of a burnt umber or raw umber, raw sienna or an ochre was painted on as a good first underpainting. Sometimes it can be pretty exciting to paint on a bright red or dark blue as your first underpainting especially when you are in the habit of putting on three or four layers and seeing the underpainting come through your painting. Use a big wash brush to apply the first underpainting it you use acrylic as your underpaint it will dry quickly and get you started quicker.

How to apply oil paint in two methods

1. Wet on wet or All Prima (in one step)

2. Stage Painting or Glazing Fat over lean

Wet on wet is applied by using the paint stiff, which is directly from the tube Or thinned to the consistency of salad dressing with linseed oil the essential part of painting wet on wet is making your brushes and painting knives do the work for you.

You definitely want to have full control of your brushes and experiment with different brushes to see the marks and texture streaks that they make.

Never work with turps unless you are working with the glazing method.

Never ever stand your brushes in any turps working in your painting session.

Turps will burn the bristles and inevitably there will be some left in the brush when you start to use color.

This will make it difficult to keep control of the flow or thickness of paint. The glazing technique is a process of building up your painting in a series of layers of the thinned paint.

I found this specific method for the glazing technique with oil paint it is called fat over lean

A Lean 1st layer thinned with solvent

A Lean 2nd layer thinned with less solvent

A Lean 3rd layer thinned with less solvent

A Fat 4th layer straight from tube

A Fat 5th layer thinned with little linseed oil

A Fat 6th layer thinned with more linseed oil

It is very essential that you this process exactly follow or the layers of paint will dry at different levels and possibly crack the paint. Granted, it is a slow method and you absolutely need some patience however the results are spectacular tonal values which are essential in painting. This glazing method gives you full control of creating tones in acrylic paint. Here there is no mystery about paint.

Remember that paint is just pigment with a binder. In the case of oil paint, it is just a pigment with a drying oil usually linseed oil is used for this. The very best professional oil paints you will find are Michael Harding and Old Holland. Windsor and Newton and some other makes are good as well just make sure they are called professional paints and not the lesser quality student paints.

One last thing, Oil Paint dries very slowly, have patience and enjoy the journey. Paint on.

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Classroom Design In Preschool - It Matters!

The classroom design, or way in which you set up your classroom, will determine how comfortable your students and families are and how productive you are! Classroom design can decrease or increase negative behavior in the classroom! Too many open areas just scream "PLEASE! Run here!" or so it seems to the children!

When your classroom is set up with the goal of letting children know what can be done in each area, it sends a comfortable and secure message to them, the families and you and your co-teachers.

The design of your classroom will largely be determined by the amount of space you have, where the windows and doors are located and the type of flooring you have in each area.

Most classrooms are organized around Interest Learning Centers Let's talk about where the best space for each interest center is in the classroom to help determine the best classroom design for your space. Below we'll review each area.

The Art Center, Easel and Sand and Water table(s) are potentially "messy" activities and are best set up on flooring rather than on a carpet for obvious reasons!

Library and Block areas are best set up on a carpeted area for comfort and noise control with regard to the blocks!

Dramatic Play can be anywhere in your classroom as can your math/manipulatives center and your computer, if you have one.

When determining your classroom design, think about how each interest center is used and, therefore, the activity level desired in each. The reason for this is to ensure that you do not put a center that is active and, at times, loud (like your dramatic play area) next to your library area or computer where the children are trying to listen to a story or computer story.

Once you have determined which areas to keep away from each other, draw it out on paper. How does it look to you? Is there a natural flow from interest center to interest center and throughout the classroom?

Below are some questions to consider for each Interest Learning Center.

The Art Center:

Where will children put their finished art? Can they get to the finished art spot without having to carry a very, heavily painted paper through ALL of the other interest centers (this could be messy!)? Is the Art Area close to the hand washing sink or bathroom? This will be important on days that you finger paint!

The Block Center

I recommend this area to be against a wall, preferably a corner of the room. This allows enough storage by having 2 corners of wall. It also provides a space for the children to build without other children knocking down their structures as would happen if this were in the middle of the room.

The Cooking Area

Again, this area should be somewhere close to a hand washing sink or bathroom so the children do not have to carry food or walk with sticky hands through the entire classroom!

Dramatic Play

This is a very active area! It can be anywhere in your classroom! The only place I do not recommend is near an area that is meant to be a quiet, relaxing area such as the Library or the Computer.

Library

It would be best for this area to be on a carpeted area of the room, however, that is not necessary. You can provide small area carpets or carpet squares for the children to lie on while reading as well as chairs, a small table for audio books, or a child sized couch.

Math/Manipulatives

It would be great to have shelving to place the games and manipulatives on for the children to choose. Provide a table and chairs near the area that the materials are so that the children do not have far to walk with the box or bin of items in their hands.

The Sand and Water Table (or Sensory Table)

Preferably, this area should be on a floor where cleanup is quicker, that is not always possible. Our classroom had indoor/outdoor commercial carpeting throughout the entire room! Having a plastic mat (such as a tablecloth or other NON absorbent covering) under the table works just fine. Be sure to have clean-up materials nearby such as towels, a bucket, adult and child-sized mops, brooms and dustpans.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO CHANGE THE CLASSROOM DESIGN..........OFTEN!

If the set up doesn't work for your group, change it! Some reasons to change or modify your classroom design may be:

Too much running in classroom: This is a sign that areas of your classroom just scream "RUN HERE! RUN HERE! to the children. You may need to reduce your "runway" space by either modifying that area or adding something in the middle. You could add a table for play dough or puzzles.

The Library has become a dramatic play area: Is your library located near your dramatic play area? If so, the children may naturally use your library as an extension area of play. If you expect your library to be a quiet area, it is important to locate it near other quite learning centers.

Also, do you use your library as circle time? If so, the children have "learned" that this is a place where we sing, dance and move around a lot!

We change or modify our room design often. Dramatic Play moves from one end of the room to the other about once a month!

Yes, children like consistency, but change is not taboo! When we have made changes to our environment, we talk with the kids about it right away! One of their favorite circle time activities has been when the teacher asked them, "Does anyone notice anything different about our room today?".

Classroom design, when determined based on how the space should be used, will help your children to know what they can do in what area. This will help them to feel confident in their preschool environment and reduce negative behavior.

Having well defined plans will also help you and your co-workers to feel calm and peaceful because you have thoughtfully considered the flow of the traffic in your classroom and this will show in your classroom design!

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How Classrooms Have Evolved Over the Last 50 Years

Over the last 50 years there have been dramatic technological advances that have helped to shape a society that is fundamentally different from that of the 1950's and 1960's. One place where this is particularly apparent is in the classroom where both the room itself and the teaching techniques used therein are considerably different from those of just a few decades ago.

I'm sure the classic depiction of a classroom is familiar to almost everyone; wooden flip-top desks with attached seats; the units all separate from one another and facing towards the blackboard at the front of the class, where lectures are typically taught in a direct lecture-style fashion.

Over the years classrooms changed and evolved, individual desk/seating units were replaced with separate desks and chairs that could be positioned in groups, making it more straightforward to encourage interaction and group work between the students. At this time the lesson structure also changed; lessons were based less upon direct lecturing and a greater emphasis was placed on maintaining interest and enthusiasm amongst the students. This was achieved through increased interaction between the students and more practical tasks and activities. To aid this development items like easels and art supplies crept into classrooms, and areas devoted to activities such as reading, music or crafts were separated using room dividers.

Nowadays classrooms have advanced much further to take advantage of the most recent technological developments. The widespread adoption of the Internet has fundamentally changed the way that people live their lives nowadays and many classrooms are taking advantage of it to improve the way lessons are taught. Modern classrooms are almost incomparable from those of the 50's; banks of computers line the walls and traditional blackboards are replaced with projectors hooked up to laptop computers allowing lessons to be interspersed with video and audio clips, all of which help teachers to keep lessons fresh and interesting resulting in students that are more likely to remain alert and engaged with the class.

In some classes technology has also changed the way students submit work. With the huge societal uptake of web 2.0 properties (such as social networking websites, blogs and forums) many teachers have opted to utilise them in the classroom; essays and short stories are posted on blogs rather than submitted on paper and class interaction is encouraged via class forums.

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Ask Kids GOOD Questions

What's the secret to talking with teenagers?

Start talking when they are children.

Talking and listening to kids from a young age establishes the processes for both you and your child that are really useful when they become teenagers.

Like everything else talking to kids can be done a) poorly, b) moderately or, c) really well. Talking develops your relationship with them, their relationships skills, their self-esteem and, if done really well, their own self-knowledge.

If you talk really well to them they become encouraged to talk to you. Talking is a skill, like any other, that takes practice.

Kids differ in their propensity to talk. Some are conversational clams who hold everything, including their feelings, close to your chest. Others just love to bend your ear in a one-on-one situation for a time. Know your kids and choose your time to talk are key principles here.

One feature of effective talking is the ability to ask questions. GOOD questions will open up communication. The right question at the right time can illicit a positive response that leaves both you and your child satisfied, and more importantly wanting to talk more.

Here are five GOOD questions to ask your kids:

1. Ask specific, not general questions: Rather than asking a child, "How was school today?"(general question) which gives kids little choice try asking specific questions such as, "What was something new you did today?" or "Where are you at with that new art project you began last week?" Specific questions indicate real interest and in fact are, real questions.

2. Ask for a solution: If a child tells you to stop nagging about cleaning up their bedrooms ask them for their solution- e.g. "Okay, so how would you go about keeping it clean?" This opens the door for negotiation and places responsibility on children to be involved in the solution.

3. Ask specific questions to get information: If a child is upset by something that happened at pre school, school or even the next room there are times when you just have to get more information. "Can you tell me what happened?" "What was it that upset you?" Sometimes being listened to is all kids need.

4. Consult with your child: Ask questions that tap into and broaden your child's self-knowledge. "When do you feel you can work your best to do your homework?" Kids know from the cradle what they need so let's tap into that knowledge.

5. Ask what they would like to change: If a child complains about something specific, such as their sibling's behaviour or school, ask them what they would like to change. "If you could change one thing about school what would it be?" This can often open up a range of conversational options.

There is no script or easy to remember set of rules to follow when talking with kids.
However, these questions are easy-to-use tools that you can use when you and your child need to gain a better understanding of each other, or just an exploration of better behavioural options.

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