This was the demo (mine)...
Every child got to put brush to the painting...
We talked about values and color...
Last Friday I spent the morning at the Furnace Brook Middle School as an Artist In Residence, along with Mary Sheehan Winn and Sally Dean - how cool was that? Extremely. The kids were so interested, with good questions on technique, and the teachers were very supportive - they have an exhausting job - the art teachers have no time to do anything but set up and take down between classes - and Middle School kids are..... energetic. Here are some shots - I set up a panel for me and one for them, and displayed some Daily Paintings, and explained basically what that is and why I do it (did I ever say it on my blog?). Mary and Sally were wonderful to be with. Afterwards we went to lunch and chilled - joined by our friend Jeanne MacFarland, another wonderful artist (who has yet to launch her website!). On Mary's Daily Painting blog she posted a picture of me with one of the kids.
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2 comments:
kelley, i love your artist in residence day. now you know what i did for the last 13 years--that's right!!!middle school art teacher. i loved it, but am so glad to be retired.
pam holnback
Pam, from what I could see you're going to need a few years to rest from that job! :)
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