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Well, we have been doing a lot of wonderful things in our art classes at Firstlight; most recently in Foundations and Expressions, watercolor projects. Learning how to do watercolor is very hard, but the students have understood our key concepts that make it easier. Great paintings have been the result. This past week we’ve been doing our first 2 Color Journals of the year, appropriately the red and green journal [...] Thank you I am emphasizing my thanks. Without you, we would be sitting around wondering what to do all day. Without emphasis, a painting leaves it’s viewers wondering where to look. At Firstlight, we teach vital concepts like emphasis in our classes but we try to reduce abstract ideas like this to a more concrete term: Emphasis becomes “The Most Important Spot” and negative space becomes “the Air around the [...] Next weekend will be Firstlight’s 5th artshow, and the first time we’ll have the show in our own studios. I am always amazed at the caliber of work that comes in and goes up on the walls, but I am more amazed at how this event impacts students, their families, and their friends. Everyone who shows up says they are so happy that they took the time to come. It’s [...] It’s May. Seems to me that in this month, everyone has so much to do that they’re completely overwhelmed. (I think the word mayhem derives from the root word, “may”). When it comes to art and creativity, total freedom to do anything you want is overwhelming too. That’s why artists need problems to solve and boundaries that give us a sense of direction. All of the classes at Firstlight are [...] “I think I’ll write a blog post”, I say to myself. Here’s how it goes. First, I click on my handy “ME” bookmark folder to look for the blog page. It’s not there. Somehow I never got around to making a blog shortcut. It takes a number of steps but I get it done pretty quick. Not too much delay and I feel so productive to have streamlined my workflow [...] For the assignment, the words didn’t really have to say anything, but I was blown away by what I read. I asked our computer class to make a newsletter to work on layout. The text was only needed to fill the space, so I said just make something up. This is what I read on Noemi’s page: I remember myself doing a color drawing for a project in school. The [...] Not true! In our current day and age, artists work together more often than on their own. At least that is true in the marketplace, with entertainment art and commercial art. I have seen installations at Cheekwood by Chihuly that were astounding. This was done by many people working together. I have seen amazing films, done by many people working together. I have seen art shows that are composed of [...] Right now, in all of our Foundations classes, we are working on the parts of the face. We have created eyes out of modeling clay and will continue with nose and mouth models in the next 2 weeks. Why do we create clay models? you might ask. The clay doesn’t harden, and is re-used instead of taken home, so it seems a little pointless from the perspective of making artwork. [...] As we’re beginning of the 5th year at Firstlight, I plan to give details on the current lessons here at the blog. Subscribe or check back often to get information on what your kids are doing and bringing home. The information here is for you to be able to understand what your kids are talking about, and is very abreviated compared to what we teach in the classroom. If you [...] I’d like to write a collumn for parents of artists. Here’s an article I wrote that I’d like to see in a newspaper or magazine. Let me know what you think. I’ve updated this based on some input. Crazy Brains. by Dennas Davis So, your child runs into the room holding a big wad of toilet paper with bits of tape all over it, bringing you their new [...] |
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