Apple Painting Lesson
Recently, I had an interview for an art teacher position at Upward Bound in Utah. I asked the internet for a lesson plan, and Mr. Matt Christenson supplied. Thank you, Matt ! Here is my painting: I used these materials: 1 spray bottle 3 brushes (1.5 inch boar hair student brush, .3 cm mink hair square brush, 1 cm acrylic chisel edged brush) 1 flat metal palette knife 1 gallon ziplock bag for my palette 1 plastic picnic plate 2 old socks 1 glass jam jar acrylic paints: cadmium red hue, cadmium orange hue, cadmium yellow hue, dark cobalt blue, titanium white, vivid lime green Strathmore mixed media vellum finish paper notebook 4 sturdy rubber bands 1 apple Ultramarine blue pastel crayon A word about brushes: wipe them on the old sock in the direction of the brush – metal to tip, away from the handle – pretty thoroughly before cleaning them in water. Before you use them, put your brush in clean water (a drop of soap in the cup of water won't hurt) and