Painting with Children

Color affects children deeply. They love painting pictures and enjoy sharing them with family and friends. Painting offers a playful way of seeing the world. Color enriches children’s lives and early artistic expression provides enduring food for the soul.

This workbook enables children to learn painting step-by-step, using tried and tested methods. Angela Lord offers a lively approach to color that will deepen observation, seeing, and inspire painting from the heart of each color. She fosters imagination and creativity in using age-appropriate themes informed by the color insights of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.

Her approach for designing successful art lessons is based on her many years of color research, painting, and teaching. She researched good practice in Waldorf schools, consulting with teachers and students on what does and doesn’t work. She revisits Rudolf Steiner’s original watercolor suggestions for teachers. This authoritative, well researched painting workbook is a must have resource for teachers and home educators which:

• Outlines a step-by-step, easy to follow guide to painting methods and exercises for students aged 6-15 based on the child’s age and development using the Waldorf curriculum
• Includes over 150 examples of color exercises
• Examples of paintings by Waldorf School pupils which convey the spontaneity and individuality of children's work, and the imaginative ways in which colors can give rise to images
• Invites students to enjoy color, refreshing the soul as a counter to the screen world
• Cultivates students’ confidence in painting as a skill for life
• Therapeutic exercises for learning support teachers
• The basics of classroom management for painting lessons
• Helpful suggestions for designing successful art lessons
• Rudolf Steiner's original color sketches for the Friedwart School 
• Choosing colors for classrooms, and Lazure painting