In front of you today is my oil paint palette. As you can see, it gets used regularly and has many layers of oil paint on it. There are all different colors on it, from brown to pink to orange. This palette is clearly loved and experimented on. I used my palette as much as I paint with the colors I use. I put down at least two or three colors at a time then I use my palette knife to carefully mix my colors until I get the correct color. Sometimes I spend just five minutes alone mixing the color I intended for. There is so much experimentation and patience that goes into the paint palette. The first thing the student needs to learn is color theory which I would do a huge lesson on. I would then teach the student how to mix paints and set up a paint palette. The student would then get an assignment about mixing colors. I would give them a few colors and they would need to mix colors to make that correct color. This will help them alot in the future.

The first most successful research approach is experimentation. Experimentation with paint colors is going to give you the best result of a paint palette. The more colors mixed and tested on will give you the most loved palette. The second most successful approach is patience. That is the key to mixing colors. If you spend at least a few minutes mixing and testing out a few colors, you will get the best one for your painting. You want to make sure you have mixed a few variations of the color you are trying to achieve to make sure you get the best one for your painting. The third most successful approach to the paint palette is color theory. Inorder to get colors that look the best, you need to know color theory. Knowing your complementary, triad, tetriad, analogous, monochromatic, and split complementary colors will make color theory much easier for the student.

This investigation is exactly what I admire about teaching art. Art is all about experimentation, patience, and practice which is what I focus on. Experimentation and trying things over and over again allows for progression and success. The more you do so, the more you can succeed. Teaching art is just like that, you want your students to learn and explore by experimenting.