Possibility of posting some of my art lesson plans on here...

I’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.

egg study

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.

Drawings from the mall

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.

If you want to see more, you can check out my Patreon.