This was a very fun experiment I did with my 6th graders yesterday. I call it Squish Painting. Basically, this is an experiment in color mixing. They take a scoop of paint and put it on their paper, place the wax paper on top, and squish the colors together until the whole background is filled up. And you may be thinking this is a bit too young for 6th grade. Yes, it probably is, but I was looking for a fun way to add color to the background of their paper so we can do more surface work next time. We are currently participating in the Picture The Music art competition for the St. Louis Symphony. For the contest, students are asked to create a work of art that represents a certain piece of music the Symphony has selected. Before we began, we discussed the different moods and feelings you can get by listening to music and the moods that certain colors can portray. Students were to choose colors that they think best represented the music and squish them under the wax paper to mix them together and make new colors. I'll post pictures of our finished art next week...
