Impressionism Checklist: Features & Painting Tips

Oil painting summer day at Laajalahti square, Munkkiniemi

I recently taught an art course on impressionist painting. After the course one of the students asked me if I could make an impressionism checklist for the students to use later and review what they had learned. I said I could make a two-part list to be published as a blog post, with one part listing the stylistic features of impressionism and the other part providing instructions for creating an impressionist painting.

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Classroom Exercise for Teaching Spatial Perception

same sized books at different distances at the table

One of my favorite activities in the drawing classes I teach involves turning the classroom desks into a single long table. Along this table, I place identical objects—like books—at one-meter intervals. Half of the students work from one end of the table, while the other half work from the opposite end, drawing with charcoal on paper placed on their easels.

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