leading by example

She has taken this class before.
I have seen her add colors to one area until, moving back and forth, the colors turned to black and without a brightness of its own.
This semester I have been assigned to guide her through her class projects. The MIDDLE picture is mine, first, with pencil grids and circle shapes scrawled across a stretch of whiteness.
Then, dabbing colors in just one area, and letting them dry, then dabbing a different color in another area and letting it dry, and so on. She did the TOP picture by herself. A pencil grid by her own hand with scrawled shapes.
This is her growing, with patches of color left to dry,
next to other patches of color left to dry. Her color choices, her brush marks, and her choosing to stop. Double click on the image to enlarge it. While she works through her process, I daddle on my own bottom picture. The high school art instructor has thanked me for my coaxing. My job is to take the class project, adapt it to her skill level,
and give her new ways to grow as an artist.