Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. COVER story by Geri Greenman A h . an advanced oil-painting class! Finally, I had a full group of highschool students who were as anxious as I was to start this class. I’ve had a few students who were independent study, or tucked into my beginning oils class to continue with their development as painters, but this was my first full class of advanced painting students. I had planned the course for a few years. My gallery visits, museum tours and my interest in unique painting surfaces and various techniques led me to design this class with the hope it would be a challenging yet creative direction for my students. I’m big on sketchbooks, and my beginning and advanced drawing students are required to keep a sketchbook/journal. After having seen an artist’s studio set up at the Metropolitan Museum in New York a few years back, I saw—amidst the clutter of palettes, brushes and rags—a sketchbook with painted sketches. I thought WOW—this is great! This experience became part of the format for my advanced oils class. I included a book about art as required reading in the design of the class. My local librarian was kind enough to help me out with the bibliography. I had read the current glut of books based on Vermeer, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Circles of Confusion, in addition to older volumes such as The Agony and The Ecstasy (about Michelangelo) and LEARNING OBJECTIVES High-school students will . • • • • • 24 composeaninterestingself-portrait painting. learnaglazingtechnique. applyprimary-coloroilpaintsandliftthe paintsofftocreativelyallowforlight. useLiquinandoilpaintinatransparent manner,andexplorethepotentialof thistechnique. experimentwiththeoilfacilitator,Liquin. Megan april 2010 x www.ar tsandactivities.com