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This was a quick and fun project for my Gifted Art kids. The first step of the project involved them painting marks inspired by prompts I called out to them. The prompts were purposefully vague... to give an example, one prompt was "draw five circles." But I didn't specify how big the circles had to be, or if they all had to be the same size, or if they could overlap, or if they could be painted in solid! When students asked those clarifying questions, all I did was repeat the prompt. I did it this way to force the kids to make those decisions for themselves. I wanted the kids to understand that in this particular painting there really wasn't a way to do it "wrong" and that any of the marks they chose to make would be fine! This particular group of students is often very hard on themselves and very afraid to make mistakes. I chose this painting method to encourage them to let go of some of that fear and build their confidence in their own artistic decisions. After completing the mark-making with black paint, students chose a few colors of liquid watercolor to paint the remaining areas of the paper. The next step was to cut the paintings apart! I told my kids at the beginning that we would eventually be cutting their paintings into pieces, so they needed to not get too attached to their work. This was hard for some of them! The final step was to rearrange the painted squares into an interesting composition. Then we glued the squares on black paper, leaving a little space between the squares. These "reassembled paintings" turned out very successfully!
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