Being funny with students requires a certain amount of facial expression. I have been debilitated in my attempt to be funny with students.
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Depression is a focus on the past. Anxiety is a focus on the future. Breathe in presence. Exhale stress. Focus on what you can do. Do.
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As a teacher, I see the full range of work ethic and value choices. Tatum works while Melanie sleeps. I do not judge because everyone is fighting a battle. I provide a safe place for students to create and breathe and sleep and be. I create a non-judgmental space that often accomodates students and adults who feel free to voice thier opinions... which can often be judgmental. We are fighting battles and we are on our own journies of self awareness. Peace.
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No peaking, and the experience is more valuable than the product.
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Observational pencil sketch of bananas.
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Drawing to see. Seeing in parts.
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This one is from a photo.
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Watercolor and pen
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Pencil. Waiting for my daughter to complete her shopping at forever 12... I mean forever 21...
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What is your relationship with a Higer Power like? A friend of mine mentioned to me that a Rabbi Friend of his suggested that God likes a good argument. I thought that was funny. The self portrait is G2 .o5 on bristol board with marker for the added color.
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Gouache experiment.
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I use to take students to museums. COVID has altered much. We adjust now. So much is virtual.
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A value study sample for students. Grey out the paper. Erase light areas. Darken shaded areas. Refine. Lots of success on this one.
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How do you teach someone to draw? I like to draw my beautiful and curious kids when possible.
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The mall is busy. Kids are shopping. I am hiding in a chair, drawing a chair.
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HB pencil.
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Fun
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observed in a moment
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Kierkegaard said we undersand life by looking back, but we must live life forward. On a trip to the Chicago Art Institute with a group of students, I penned the students behind me and then I penned the rapidly moving images I saw through the front window of the bus . I still do not understand life except that perhaps it is full of energy and art and love.
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A wonderful reflective poem from Wendell Berry entitled "How to be a poet" is a fantastic foundation for an art curriculum. The last of three stanzas reads as follows:
Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.