Ongoing Investigation:  Painting Techniques

We began our investigation about painting techniques in February when Ms. Telners discovered the children’s interest in painting with sponges.  We started by exploring with circle and star-shaped sponges and red and green paint.  Some students squished their sponge down on the paper using their palm in order to make circle prints like the ones shown below. 

Other students wanted to spread the paint across the paper with their sponges.  See the picture below to see an example of what this painting technique looked like.

 “I’m spreading it over the star prints I made.” -Theo

Paisley came up with the idea to roll her sponges.  “Look! I’m rolling it!” she said.  We came to the conclusion that when you roll the sponges across the paper hardly any paint comes off of the sponges.

We continued using these techniques throughout the activity and talked about what types of designs these techniques made on the paper.