Collaboration

Intuitive by Design: Responding to Music through Abstraction

By Audrey Crosby, posted on May 5, 2026

Children are natural explorers who enjoy taking risks, and I love giving them a safe environment in which to experiment with a variety of media. In this lesson, my students engaged in the process of mixing and blending colors to music, using soft pastels. I was interested in seeing how the music would influence the creative process in an instinctive way.

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