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Hi Pam,
I think that's a good idea to have the acrylic painters come with the same colors as the oils and I think there is a lot to be learned from color charts as well. I am familiar with Schmits color charts but not Sandens. Are they in one of his books? I am at an art center and not a college so I will make the home work optional.
I was lucky enough to attend a workshop with Kim English a few years back. He had a great system of painting white on white. I will be applying this to a white on white still life as a way of teaching the color wheel. The three primaries are laid out in a triangle on the palette with a gob of white in the middle. Bascially as you identify all the shifts in value and color you end up mixing a color wheel and using the complements to create the greys. It teaches that the color wheel is a value wheel as well. With teens I have them mix the color wheel and the greys than use Betty Edwards idea of gridding off a canvas and having them paint their emotions. No right or wrong, just gets them used to what the color and brushstokes can do. When we start painting from life I can ask "remember that greyed blue you liked so well? Do you see it anywhere in the still life? Then they have something to reference to.
Your right teaching is a blast. I start at a wonderful art center in Birmingham, MI next week. I can't wait!
Thank you for all of your advice
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