Had an art day with my friend Kim yesterday.
We went to The Art Resource Center (ARC) in Tempe, which has been a staple in my life for years now. As a teacher and as an artist/creator. There was also a visit to Treasures for Teachers, a Bins store, and a Goodwill, where I found Jesus (ha):
Read MoreSo many sketchbooks with so many doodles and drawings, and yet I have been neglecting their upload and archiving. Well, no more!
Read MoreSome rock painting (since I was lucky enough to find the NICEST, SMOOTHEST rock) and earring repair, as well as some life updates (and art updates)…
Here’s a monochromatic rock painting, mind my messy table:
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They’re such beautiful quality and look SO good, I’ve been admiring them all day :) Can’t wait to start passing these out—So many different designs!! So you can pick your favorite one :)
Read MoreStarting to migrate my blogspot posts about my lessons onto here.
An assignment passed down from the art teacher who came before me (she resigned half-way through the year I was hired, those 8th graders were rough), which was adapted from an art assignment she found online. I do not know her source, but after some digging, I believe it can be located here. I, myself, have made my own alternations to the assignment, namely going over the element of art, Space, in much more detail before starting.
The idea is for kids to understand depth and how to render it on a 2D surface.
Read MoreI’ve been told multiple times, by both teachers and non-teachers alike, that I should sell my lesson plans online.
While I could always use another “side hustle”, I’m also very conscious of how important it is to share resources as a teacher. Especially when I, myself, am often scouring the internet for new ideas and examples to show my students.
I already have a blogspot for the art projects I do in class with my students, and while I want to keep that public (or otherwise move the posts onto here), I am thinking about selling the formal lesson slides. The ones I wrote up with all the IB terminology.
Being an art teacher has taught me an abundance of things, but one of the main things is the importance of OPEN SOURCE.
In the meantime, check out my teaching/lesson plan blog if you’re in the market for a project.
a fun study of this photograph I saw on tumblr.
Something about the photo really entranced me and I wanted to study it. not the silver fork and knife, though it's probably a great thing to practice painting digitally.
Painted this during my art session w/ the step sibs. More on that later, as I slowly develop a curriculum catered to them and their character design aspirations.
Patreons got to see this post, and many others, early. Idk, check it out, yo.
I took my tutoring students to the mall to do their “café drawings”. They were nervous about drawing in public, like a SWAT team was gonna pop out and arrest us, but naturally, nothing of the sort happened.
Also happened to brush up on my own life drawing in the process and here’s some pics.
We were all enamored with the dude w/ glasses on this page. Such great expressions and gestures (he had a friend sitting across from him, so he was in conversation). I really wanted to stress to them the importance of capturing what it is about the person that caught your attention. Their pose? Expression? Style? It was fun seeing them get frustrated over their chosen models moving or walking out of their line of sight. Hopefully it’ll teach them to sketch faster.
Hetalia is censored as a joke, I promise.
I wrote about this on my tumblr, but some time ago, I was involved in a collaborative zine centering around historical H*talia—The issue in question was focusing on Asia, and as a diehard Mongoliaboo (joke) (thanks Dad), I knew I had to be involved.
Below is a link to the zine, as well as the poem I wrote for said zine (alongside the illustration that goes with the poem). The part of the cover I did (it was collaborative) will be uploaded to my main 2D gallery.
Read MoreLife moves on, thankfully.
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