Are you still coloring in when you paint? Try this activity to help you become an attentive painter!

🎬💚🎨 This one is for students and art teachers, with a simple series of art activities to help young painters become habitually experimental and attentive to the creative potential of every brushstroke.

Plus, Rob the Art Teacher shares creative insights gained from his own practice as an artist.

The video is all about brushstrokes painted one at a time. It promotes a painting method that is the opposite of simply coloring a drawing with paint.

By the end of the 3-step art activity, students will be more aware of the creative potential of every single brushstroke they make.

The video contains two key learnings: a) that experiments can occur anytime you make art, and b) to gain value from this phenomenon it is important to notice your 'accidental' inventions by being attentive to every mark you make.

MUSIC
This video uses the music “Misty Mountain Top” from Microsoft Audio Library.


Rob Garrett is an artist and an accomplished art teacher, writer, and contemporary art curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a certified art teacher with 45 years’ experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary/elementary schools, high schools, and higher education art schools, including time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, the Dunedin School of Art (founded in 1870). He is currently teaching the art program at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland. He has also had the honour of senior public service in New Zealand, first in a governance role as Council member with New Zealand’s national arts council ‘Creative New Zealand’, and then as the senior manager for national pan-arts development in the same organisation. His national and international work for and with artists has included initiating and administering artist residency programmes, artists’ wage/labour rights advocacy, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous contemporary art exhibitions, public space festivals, artist commissions, and city-wide public art programs in New Zealand and Poland.