Casey Wilson

New Blog!

January 24, 2015
I am terrible about updating my website, and almost as terrible about updating my blog (which has been up and running for ages, but ignored for many months...) At any rate, some of my adventures in art teaching can be found at...

http://paintonallthetables.wordpress.com

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Blog Status/Construction Notice.

March 21, 2014
As you may have noticed, posting in this particular blog location has been suspended, as I am working on developing an art education blog independent of my artist website. Over Spring Break (March 15-30) I will be working on new posts for the new site that a friend is designing for me. I am very excited for this new development!

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Colour Theory

February 11, 2014
How to make colour theory interesting and a project in itself? Colour theory was the bane of my existence at art school - making all those wheels and charts with all the colours my paint could possibly mix felt useless at the time. It has become very important in my teaching, however. Here are some of my assessments of projects I have tried, and not tried:

Colour Wheel Gecko
The first colour theory project I attempted with Grade 2 was the colour wheel gecko... 

http://www.thatartistwoman.org/201...
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Aurora Borealis Mixed-Media Nightscapes

February 4, 2014


I came up with this project in response to the ever-present dilemma of creating non-denominational winter holiday cards.We made full-size (9"x12") landscapes to display as well as quarter-size (4.5"x6") landscapes for the holiday cards, and they were all beautiful. This lesson has been successful so far in Grade 5, and should be appropriate for any intermediate grade, though it has potential as a small group lesson in the primary grades. 

Materials:
  • Blue construction paper
  • Black construction pap...

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