Teaching the fundamentals of Drawing
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 by O’Keefe (my personal favorite […]
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 first time moving with more […]
Tonight, I’ll be doing a demonstration of how artists see various shapes in their pictures, and how you can visually break images down and put them back together on a piece of paper more efficiently and, with practice, more realistically. If you want to draw along, take a look through this small packet, and bring […]
Good morning! Here are Weeks 3 and 4 for this year’s Cycle 3. I wasn’t intending on overhauling Week 4 as much as I did, but the more research I did about Abstract Art, the more I really got into the story about it, and its role in the 20th century historical movements. (and this […]
Hello Everyone! I’ve got Cycle 3 for you! (Or at least the beginnings of it!) Scroll down to the bottom to get the links for Weeks 1 and 2. I will, sometime this month, most likely the final week of July, (pending my fourth well-treatment and test, roof replacement, and finalized closing date (third time’s […]
Between packing for our move and working on the children’s book I’m illustrating, yes, I AM working on Cycle 3 tutorials. While working on those, I ran across this fascinating quote from an 1885 report about the importance of teaching art in the 19th century American public schools. This quote jumped out from that long […]
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” book by MaryAnn Kohl and […]
If you want to explore art, explore it! Don’t be scared of art or artists, we’re crazy, just like you. If you’re not sure where to start, start with Daily Art. (See below). Here are some other tools, especially if you want to expose your kids to the wonderful, crazy, amazing stories that weave through […]
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, takes over the entire city. […]
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 hope it helps. As the […]