Describes the use of a simple and familiar medium, finger paints, to get high school students to explore problems of design in painting. (SJL)

Instructions are given for making oil ground, glue gesso, glue water size, oil colors, damar varnish, water colors, encaustic painting, egg tempera painting, etching inks, etching grounds, etching acids, and sugar-lift. (SJL)

In commemoration of America's Bicentennial celebration, the Passaic Valley art students accepted enthusiastically the challenge of painting a Bicentennial mural. (Author)

Discusses three interesting art exhibitions traveling around the United States under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. (Author/RK)

Article presented drawings of faces made by elementary school children typifying the youngster's approach to sorrow, joy, anger, hate, love and peace. (Author/RK)

Students designed and painted their school's walls in a massive school enlivening project. (Author/RK)

Three classes of high school students participated in a four-day unit which focused on the dimensions of color and the psychological impact of color. (Author)

In celebration of the bicentennial movement students did a mural on our country from 1776 to 1976. (Author/RK)

A powerful motivational force for painting activities may be found in the study of artworks by outstanding artists. The focus here is on the Twentieth-Century movement, Abstract Expressionism. Students are encouraged to combine discoveries of experiment with thoughtful development of their work. Recommended for junior/senior high school painting…

Excellent material for developing your students' understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century artists. Presents a thorough commentary on the naive art of Horace Pippin, the late, self-styled black artist. (Editor)

Abstract art provokes numerous interpretations, and as many misunderstandings. The adolescent reaction is no exception. The procedure described here can help the student to understand the abstract from at least one direction. (Author/RK)

In this art activity gifted students, ages 10 to 13, learn about internal and external rhythms and make a painting of an internal rhythm. The lesson can be expanded with a discussion of Kandinsky, Pollock, and other painters who have painted sound or have demonstrated rhythms. (RM)

High school art teacher describes a technique for making crazes with oil paints and water on masonite. (GB)

Art teacher gives a model unit on the Fauves including exercises as well as background information. (GB)

Mead Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, displays private art collection at two elementary schools in Palo Alto, California, to provide children with an exposure to high quality painting. (DS)