Teaching the fundamentals of Drawing
My computer came back! Yay! I have Sooooo much to catch up on. Norman Rockwell is one of those artists most people love…unless you’re in art. I’m not sure why. Despite having a degree in art, I always had a soft spot for Rockwell’s work, but many “critics” really don’t […]
So…its amazing what you can-and can’t-do with a broken computer. Slows things down quite a lot when I can only borrow a laptop for an hour or two a couple nights a week! Here is Grandma Moses, and hopefully, I can get Rockwell up in another day or two, followed […]
Good morning! Here are weeks five and six for Cycle 3. Sorry things are so haphazard in regards to timing, but moving has not been as streamlined as I remembered (I’ve done this five times before, you’d think I’d know how to do this. Of course, this is the […]
So, we studied Rembrandt this past week at my Classical Conversations group, and I thought you might like to see and/or use some of the resources I made for my class to illustrate the lesson. As much as I love how CC is set up, and the “Discovering Great Artists” […]
Hello again! So many times, I hear people saying, “Art is so intimidating, I’ll never get it”. Case in Point: ArtPrize I grew up just outside Grand Rapids Michigan, and my parents still live there. For three weeks every fall, the largest outdoor art festival in the world, ArtPrize, […]
Aaaaaand…it’s 1 am again! A series of house showings and behind-the-scenes storage issues has swallowed my time. But apparently, what I need to do is stay up late one night a week and write while listening to a good Pandora mix playing. Here is Week 6, and I […]
I should have known. I was able to knock out weeks 1-4 relatively quickly, but week 5 always kicks me around. Which is strange, because I LOVE Perspective drawing. It’s regular, it’s got rules, I can always draw a little house in one or two point perspective just for […]
Here are scripts for week 2 (“mirror image”), week 3 (“upside down drawing”) and week 4 (“abstract art”). Week 5’s “perspective” is taking longer, just because the word “perspective” covers a very large field. And since I’m trying to prep scripts for everyone from the four year old first […]
I got into teaching art through Classical Conversations. I’d taught art on a substitute basis before, but you always have to follow the regular teacher’s rules when you do that. One of the things I love about Classical Conversations is it integrates art and music, both the study of theory […]