In response to my rant on Making Art with Little Kids, here is my advice on how to approach art with young children. (You didn’t think I’d go off on a subject so dear to my heart only to leave you hanging, did you?) The truth is, making art with little kids is an awesome Read More
Caleb does a lot of art at our house. A lot. And most of it ends up looking like a horribly mangled piece of paper with too much glue and a little bit of everything stuck to it. And I am completely okay with it. Completely. We have been in many “make art with the Read More
I like to set up little art activities before I go to bed so that when Caleb wakes up in the morning he wanders over to his little table and engages in the activity. One of my favorites is to do drawings in sharpie on paper that I then tape down to his drawing board. Read More
I won the honorable award of being KBAY-FM Radio‘s Teacher of the Month! Yeah, that’s the South Bay’s Soft Rock! (I always thought of myself as more of an alternative / punk / folk / indie teacher of the month, but soft rock is cool too.) Anyway, the article is about half way down this Read More
Many of you know that I teach art at Hyde Middle School. We recently finished putting up a bunch of paintings around campus that reflect selected modern art styles. Students worked in groups to select different styles ranging from surrealism to non-figurative (a detail of the photo realism painting is shown above). They then researched Read More
I made some obscure World of Warcraft reference while teaching a few weeks ago and one of my students totaly freaked out and told the whole school that I knew about World of Warcraft. That little spark has unleashed itself in my classroom in ways I never thought possible. Today, for the third consecutive week, Read More
Check it out! I’m in a book!
The above pic was taken from a website surveying the danger of silicosis in American industry in the 30’s. Granted, my job is not sending me down in mines or anything. But, I am around lots of clay, which contains silica. So, two years ago, my school installed an air conditioner in my room, which Read More
Okay, so I said I’d post the link to the still life drawings my students did when they were up on our gallery, so here they are! You can click on the smaller pictures to enlarge them, which I think does them so much more justice. These are all begining Art students and their progress Read More
I taught my drawing unit a bit differently this semester and WOW! These are the best still life drawings I’ve seen come out of any students this age! I’ll post the link to their gallery when I have it up. But, if I do say so myself, this unit RULED! And my students worked so Read More