Ode to an Art Teacher...

As the school year ends... I thought I would re-post this on in honor of all teachers. But especially those who teach our children the arts. Enjoy!

for all the teachers....
A recent quote from an Art Teacher I know,"Hours preparing for the art show tonight: too many to count...Graeters gift cards for those who helped hang the artwork: $20.00...seeing the look on a students face when they see an award ribbon on their artwork: priceless..."

I am sure at one point in your life you had a memorable art teacher, even if you did not like art. Some of those memories might be great, some not so great.

At some point everyone loved to cut and paste, I know I did.

When I went to college at 31 to get an associates degree in commercial art, I found that I had to redefine my image of art teachers. The curriculum covered everything from drawing to hand paste-up for printing and computer drawing and of course the required dose of English, History, and Econ.

The fine arts drawing class was the real surprise. The professor was a big fan of having your still life run off the page. *Gasp* "What do you mean? Like cut it off, not put it in the middle of the page?" *horrified* I was in shock. I got over it, loved the class and what that professor passed on to me.

And yes, you can draw a still life of crumpled brown paper bags!

And you can always run the image off the page.
Kinda like coloring outside the lines.

Besides grading, art teachers spend countless hours on lesson plans, examples for the students, ruin their clothes and clean up the messes. And hand out the awards at school art shows that make our children's eyes light up, our hearts swell and tears sneak into our eyes.

Hopefully sometime in your life there was an Art Teacher, who encouraged and allowed you to 'think outside the box' and 'color outside the lines.'

Thank them sometime, for they can change how our children view the world.

Art Teachers are priceless...

Ode to An Art Teacher

With a lot of our little ones going back to school, I decided to repost a blog entry from this spring. Enjoy!

for all the teachers....

A recent quote from an Art Teacher I know,"Hours preparing for the art show tonight: too many to count...Graeters gift cards for those who helped hang the artwork: $20.00...seeing the look on a students face when they see an award ribbon on their artwork: priceless..."

I am sure at one point in your life you had a memorable art teacher, even if you did not like art. Some of those memories might be great, some not so great.

At some point everyone loved to cut and paste, I know I did.

When I went to college at 31 to get an associates degree in commercial art, I found that I had to redefine my image of art teachers. The curriculum covered everything from drawing to hand paste-up for printing and computer drawing and of course the required dose of English, History, and Econ.

The fine arts drawing class was the real surprise. The professor was a big fan of having your still life run off the page. *Gasp* "What do you mean? Like cut it off, not put it in the middle of the page?" *horrified* I was in shock. I got over it, loved the class and what that professor passed on to me.

And yes, you can draw a still life of crumpled brown paper bags!

And you can always run the image off the page.

Kinda like coloring outside the lines.

Besides grading, art teachers spend countless hours on lesson plans, examples for the students, ruin their clothes and clean up the messes. And hand out the awards at school art shows that make our children's eyes light up, our hearts swell and tears sneak into our eyes.

Hopefully sometime in your life there was an Art Teacher, who encouraged and allowed you to 'think outside the box' and 'color outside the lines.'

Thank them sometime, for they can change how our children view the world.

Art Teachers are priceless...

Planning a '30 minute' necklace

Can it be done??? Doesn't everyone like a challenge now and then.
I was checking in at a large publisher of craft books (http://www.larkbooks.com/submissions) for submissions... a call out section for artists and saw a design challenge for a '30 minute' necklace project. *See light bulb above head* the brain is going "I can do this... maybe?"

** Serious thinking going on here, see wheels turning above my head** You see due to my auto-immune disorder I avoid wire work, I just don't have the strength in my hands. So I make almost all of my necklaces on one sometimes two pieces of flex wire. That leaves me only struggling with crimps and crimps covers.

Dana, the daughter has done this project thing and her paper jewelry project graced the cover of the book. http://tinyurl.com/paper-jewelery * She also has a BFA in silversmithing and jewelry making along with her MA in art education.* So writing directions is easy for her. Really Dana has had pictures of her artwork printed in 5 books from Lark, the first while she was in undergrad. Dana's web page http://kdanak.com/

I wonder if the 30 minutes includes picking the beads? Or it is just string them together. I can string one together in 30 minutes, I think.
For now I am trying to come up with a good combination of stones that is easily purchased.

Next I will worry about writing down directions.

thanks for stopping by
regina aka red

Summertime...

Summertime and the livin' is easy...
So the song goes, but right now even if it is summer, things are not so easy.
Let's celebrate the joy of a good sale! And beautiful baubles to brighten the day.
Hopefully this will makes someone feel just a little better this summer.

I will be having a 50% off sale in both of my on line shops. For the next 7 days (5/29-6/5/2009) .

On ArtFire the prices listed reflect the 50% savings.
http://designsbyred3of5.artfire.com/

On Etsy I will have to issue you a new paypal invoice that reflects the reduced price once you have made your purchase.
http://designsbyred3of5.etsy.com/

Come join the fun in the sun. Also during this sale we will have free shipping.
Thanks for stopping by,
regina aka red

Ode to the Art Teacher

A recent quote from an Art Teacher I know,
"Hours preparing for the art show tonight: too many to count...
Graeters gift cards for those who helped hang the artwork: $20.00...
seeing the look on a students face when they see an award ribbon on their artwork: priceless..."

I am sure at one point in your life you had a memorable art teacher, even if you did not like art.
Some of those memories might be great some not so great. At some point everyone loved to cut and paste, I know I did.

When I went to college at 31 to get an associates degree in commercial art, I found that I to redefine my image of art teachers. The curriculum covered everything from drawing to hand paste-up for printing and computer drawing and of course the required dose of English, History, and Econ. The fine arts drawing class was the real surprise. The professor was a big fan of having your still life run off the page. *Gasp* "What do you mean? Like cut it off, not put it in the middle of the page?" *horrified* I was in shock. I got over it, loved the class and what that professor passed on to me. And yes, you can draw a still life of crumpled brown paper bags! And you can always run the image off the page. Kinda like coloring outside the lines.

Besides grading, art teachers spend countless hours on lesson plans, examples for the students, ruin their clothes and clean up the messes. And hand out the awards at school art shows that make our children's eyes light up, our hearts swell and tears sneak into our eyes.
Hopefully sometime in your life there was an Art Teacher, who encouraged and allowed you to 'think outside the box' and 'color outside the lines.'
Thank them sometime, for they can change how our children view the world.

Art Teachers are priceless...