Community of Peace Academy, Teacher Ms. Lor, High School, 5 hours.
Minnesota Museum of American Art, 4 Hours.
This week for CPA, I helped Ms. Lor class by cleaning and grading papers and giving feedback to students. I cleaned the brushes that the students used to paint on their landscape project. When I finished with the brushes, I graded the students ‘Do-Now’s and their planning sheet that guides helps them with their landscape painting. I realized that I enjoy putting in grades. Somehow it relaxes me and makes me very focus. Knowing which students needs help and understands the assignment. Some students wanted help with blending colors together using acrylic paint. I showed them how to and they understood it why I showed them. Some wanted me to give them advice on what colors were best to use so it won’t take away from everything else. Down below, you can see some of certain student’s landscape paintings, that are not named for their privacy. I believe that they have been showing progress in their landscape painting because they’re starting at the background before they go to the foreground. Another important requirement for this project is to learn how to blend. And the students, that I have seen so far, are doing great and showing progress. I am very excited for next week because Ms. Lor is going to give me feedback on my documents for my teaching! I can’t wait to teach!
In MMAA, was an amazing day! When I arrived at MMAA for a drawing class that I was going to help an artist that was teaching, gesture for a drawing class, named Megan Vossler. Megan is a Teaching artist andreceived her BA from Brown University (Rhode Island), and her MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artwork has been exhibited nationwide. The students that registered was six people, ages from 60-late70’s and they were learning how to draw a model and materials. During this time, it reminded me of when I had my drawings classes that had model that we had to draw too. They had to use a stick and ink and how to use a pencil property and using coloring pencils and charcoal. They had a time limit for each pose.
I helped organized the materials for everyone and helped rip papers and clean. But there wasn’t much to do and I let Megan know if she needed anything to let me know. I was watching Megan teaching the students and she told me that I can join them too! I was excited because I wanted to join! So I join them and learned more ways to draw a model. It was relaxing to re-learn and to draw figures of their poses. Down below, I took pictures of different examples of the student’s drawings. I won’t name the students for their privacy. The sizes of the paper were very large and they had to cover everything.
Up close, Gesture Drawing
One of the student drew this only using a chopstick and ink. The focus was capturing the outline of the figure.
3 Different Gestures Drawings
The same student with their 3 different drawings. And each had its different material. One was with color pencil, second with ink, and third with charcoal.
Throughout this week, I came up with questions, or thoughts.
it’s never too late to learn how to draw. Everyone can draw but it takes patience and time.
A question that I have is, why do artist succeeds and other don’t?
Honestly, I don’t know the answer for that but it made me think during this week and I want to know.