The Painting Bench
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| The bench is scaled so that children ages
3 to 12 can look down into the paint pots. Equipped with eight pots
of water base tempera paints, the colors are arranged across the front
of the bench, each primary color interspersed with a secondary color:
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, a linear color wheel. Set
back on the wings of the bench are the two pots containing white and
black, shades that make colors darker or lighter, but are not true
colors themselves.
Each pot of paint contains a number 12 water color brush that must
be rinsed in the water container before being immersed again in the
paint. The round water container is placed in front of the square paint
pot. The difference in shape helps the young artist tell which is water
and which is paint. For very young learners, children 3 and 4 years
old, the brush handle may also be painted to match the pot of paint
it belongs in — yellow brush must be returned to yellow paint container,
blue brush to the blue, etc. |
