Does Training Ruin Artists’ Voices?
“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” –…
Art Education
Why Not Just Use a Camera?
Cameras are just one way of translating information onto a 2D surface, but not the only way. And definitively not always the best way. There…
Art As a Collective Body of Knowledge
Is atelier training Eurocentric art? When considering mathematical concepts, rarely do people worry if the Pythagorean Theorem came from Ancient Greece, and that the symbols…
Everything You Know About Warm and Cool Colors Is Wrong
Red, orange, yellow – warm colors right? Green, blue, purple are cool colors, right? Wrong. The truth is, that every color is both warm AND…
Art & Beauty
When artists abandon beauty and the human figure as worthy subjects, the advertising industry fills the vacuum with glee. This article explores why the creation…
Art Prodigy Propoganda
As an art teacher, nothing is more ire-inspiring to me than the proliferation of prodigy propaganda. We see them everywhere on social media – young…
THE MAGIC OF SEEING
Seeing better – like reading – is a skill that can enhance nearly every aspect of day-to-day life. My older sister learned how to read…
Art Can Be Taught, Art Can Be Learned
“…I think undoubtedly everybody ought to be taught to draw, just as much as everybody ought to be taught to read and write.” -William Morris…
The Must-Know Secret for Teaching Oil Painting on a Budget
Teaching oil painting with a small budget is possible if you apply this one simple principle. (Please note this article contains affiliate links.) Many art…
3 Unexpected Podcasts for Art Teachers
There are obvious podcasts for art teachers, and then there are the hidden nuggets that you might have missed. Here are 3 podcasts for art…
Scientific Discoveries in Art
Scientific progress is not always recognized in art, but it plays a significant role in aesthetic developments. Cadmiums The discovery of cadmiums as a use…