Demonstrate your interest

• Tell me about your picture.
• Do you want to tell me about it or just show me?
• How did you make that?
• Did you learn anything new?
• What did you do first?
• Stand away from your artwork, does it look different? The same? How? Why?
• What is your favorite part?
• What did you like doing best?
• Lets turn your work around so we can look at all the different sides.

Talk about the art elements: line, shape, color, texture, space

• Look at all the zigzag lines
• I see big shapes and small shapes in your picture.
• Can you count how many colors you used?
• I like the effect of using one color, it makes it easier to see your lines.
• How did you make all those textures.
• Look at the difference between that shiny fabric and that crumply paper.
• Look at the spaces you created in between these two forms.

Just describe what you see

• I see some purple, orange and green. It looks like you mixed some “secondary” colors.
• Wow you were really listening to directions, look how you…
• Look how you placed/arranged the…
• You take your time and make careful decisions.
• Wow you used so many different brush strokes.

Steer away from value judgments: good/bad, like/dislike

• I enjoy the way…
• I appreciate how you…
• I am proud of you for…
• I admire…
• I notice…
• Look at the attention you paid to…