Abstract
This Project is an Alternative Culminating Experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Elective Emphasis on Arts in Education. It follows Pathway I: Artist as Educator. To develop expertise as a painter the author worked with instructor Tom Monteith in two painting courses at the California State University, Sacramento. Working with Monteith improved the artist’s expertise as a painter working from life with a focus on color and form. The project culminated in the works produced, as well as the development of the artist’s perspective on art making. Development of growth in the area of painting was assessed in the analysis of groups of drawings and paintings from a 20-image portfolio.