At this stage in their art-making development, middle schoolers are often challenging themselves a bit more, while exploring their identities, and further developing their motor and cognitive skills. I provide a nurturing, confidence-building environment that encourages experimentation, embraces mistakes as part of the process, and values individuality. 

Students created egg tempera landscapes, while they were studying the Rennaissance and anticipating a school trip to Italy. Later, they learned that egg tempera was the main painting technique in Europe during the middle ages, before oil painting was developed.