Painting on canvas
During their first stage, Kedma students were taught the basics of sketching and drawing on paper. In the final stage, they were requested to transfer their works onto canvas. The history of artistic means of production, especially oil paintings, is bound up with the artistic discourse as developed in prestigious western art academies (Morris 1995). In Kedma’s case, asking the students to draw with oils on canvas sought to introduce them to the common art praxis and to offer them the best artistic materials available at well-to-do schools. As the art teacher Hezi put it, this move sought to equip them with the tools of the ‘master’: