Drawing and Figures Together

  Possible Themes: Spirit Figure Ink

Death and Heaven  Neanderthal Fashion Embodied Nature  Skin Color Culture

Gender Body Identity   Spirit Bodies   Body Language Masculine Feminine Architecture

Genetic Ancestor Body Heritage  Core Chakras Body Limitations Nature and Us 

The Beginner's Mind

‘In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki. ‘In the expert’s mind, there are few’. Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They’re in love, so they don’t hesitate to do work that others will think of as silly or just plain stupid”. –

Understanding Poetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHORRHXtyI

Painting Paper

Painting Paper...

wax on wax off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCsXl9SGgY

Baeza Drawing

Baeza dramatic statue

Through the imaginary mode of awareness break through the taken for granted and mundane, enable our students to live . “We may make possible a plurality of visions, a multiplicity of realities. We may enable those we teach to rebel” Maxine Greene.

He (Kierkegaard) decided “with the same humanitarian enthusiasm as others “ to make things harder, “to create difficulties everywhere” To make things harder for people meant awakening them to their freedom. Thoreau sought to awake people from their somnolence and ease “Walden  also has to do with making life harder, with moving individuals to discover what they are living for.

“I would want one or another art form taught in all pedagogical contexts, because of the way in which aesthetic experiences provide a ground for the questioning that launches sense-making and the understanding of what it is to exist in the world…Difficulties will be created everywhere.

Spiritual and Religious Show

 Springville Spiritual and Religious Show
Paige Anderson (above) and two details from Walt's painting

Tyson Monson: God in the clouds










Excerpt from Jason Lanegan quilt (left)

 Jen Tolman, from a statue of Christ (rather than making the image of Christ realistic, appreciating that this image is a very old cultural artifact)





Eugene Butera, photo self portrait, with angels watching.

Sean Diedian, the stolen generation, the painting has been stolen

another way to think about eggs. Eric Boothe

 an animated drawing movie by Annie Poon

why do we draw?

NAEA 2017 NYC

calming...therapeutic
it separates the artists from the non-artists
creates a connection to a significant
artistic tradition
builds a foundation for advanced work
helps to see things differently
it is repetitive and soothing
builds skills with the medium
builds confidence
builds artistic discipline and craft
is valued by our culture
is valued by kid culture

upsetting....I will be judged
it is so easy to see if I make a mistake
it is so repetitive, I do this every art class
it is out of date, not even relevant today
it separates the artists from the non-artists