When the beautiful waitress bent down to pick up a napkin, I saw this..
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observed in a moment
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Some don't drink. Rumi said that wine made some people angry, therefore wine was forbidden to all. Not sure that would go well in the mid-west.
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Them
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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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Observation of people and ideas
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Fun
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Church sketch
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Henry was 5 when he created this. The color is a result of limited choices in chalk.
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Quick sketches for the processing of incomplete thoughts. Everything is created twice, first in thought, second in form. I am still thinking and still forming and still being formed.
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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.
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He was aggressive.
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He was passionate about the idea that art in schools is for the growth and development of children, not about the end product. "Drawing makes the mind", he would say. Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten, is the father of art education in schools. Give kids gifts (art supplies), and occupations (assignments), and watch them grow! Fare well Dr. Baker.
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Teaching painting is a great task to ask of a person who doesn't paint. I do not paint. I teach the manipulation of media through experience. "Learn from doing!" I say. Monochromatic pastel exercises help my students to get a handle on the media. We explore value and composition and the handling of media. Sometimes happy accidents occur. This was my example to the teens on composition and value. It is a journey.
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Sometimes a bench to sit down on after a long hike is just enough for that part of the journey.
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Waiting on the outdoor patio at the cheesecake factory.
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Notes from an early teaching moment.
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Reminds me of a Buddhist proverb: Patiently I will bear harsh words as the elephant bears arrows on the battlefield. Words are powerful. They stir emotions. We are the managers of our emotions. It is not what happens to us that is the issue, it is our opinion of what happens to us that is the issue. Peace.
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Finding edges is a conversation between values. That sounds political. Like Ruskin's observation that drawing is soiling the paper delicately.
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It might be that Spirit arranged it for a little personal time with you.
Hello, my name is Dean C. Graf, 
