How do you teach someone to draw? I like to draw my beautiful and curious kids when possible.
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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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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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It might be that Spirit arranged it for a little personal time with you.
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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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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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An exercise in observation - quick sketch. I was told that if I made a drawing a day for 365 days, that in a year, I might have a couple nice drawings.
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Drawing to see. Seeing in parts.
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An attempt at organizing my 'why' for making drawing the center of my curriculum, and selling the idea to my students. Suggestions for refinements welcome.
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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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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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The mall is busy. Kids are shopping. I am hiding in a chair, drawing a chair.
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Reflection of our state. Reflection of our time. Reflection of our lives.
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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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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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It's hot. No air in school, so we took to the shade and drew trees. I drew students drawing trees.
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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.
Hello, my name is Dean C. Graf, 
