In the Art Room: Super Hero Selfies

So I've been teaching for almost a million years and I'm not afraid to say that I don't love everything about teaching art. There are some things that got me all feelin' like this when I'm teaching...  And got my students doing all this cuz they just...can't... My two least fave thangie-muhgies are teaching figure drawing and perspective. In no particular order of distaste. I'm...

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In the Art Room: Creating a Narrative with Fourth Grade

Have you ever done one of those projects where you just knew it was gonna be quick -n- easy, everyone was gonna be successful -n- happy, finish at exactly the same time -n- be ready to move on to that Next Big Thing? Yeah, me neither. Take this "quick -n- easy" figure drawing experience.  My fourth grade created gesture drawings of their classmates roller skating in P.E. The intent...

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