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| Our teaching philosophy entails providing students a formal foundation. This includes technical instruction to develop the command over use of materials. Drawing ability comes from practice. As every student comes to class with different levels, skills, and understanding, these instruction is given through one-on-one personal interactions with students that allows us to adjust to each student's artistic concerns. We find it beneficial to include conceptual approaches to art making. Students are given assignments to develop a sense of art in connection to the world surrounding us. Through this, they are encouraged to search their own interests as a source for their art making, opening up a greater comprehension of creative possibilities. Vital to the desire to create, is the self-confidence each student has about his/her own ability and comprehension of art. It is of the utmost important to value all experiences during the creative process, both failures and successes. The willingness to take risks and experience unknowns is essential to develop one's attitude in art making. The following is a partial list of our teaching beliefs: * We firmly believes that drawing and painting are learned disciplines. We believe that drawing should be instructed first by learning the fundamentals. It is just like learning how to play the piano, all you need to do is practice as much as possible. * What we look for in our students is not a great wealth of ability, but a good attitude, a student with a willingness to learn. * Good teaching is making the hard stuff easier and making the easy stuff harder. * Most of us need to get more comfortable with mistakes. It works better to emphasize the things that are working well. We enthusiastically affirm improvements and successes. We look for improvement - not perfection. * It is the creative process that is key, not the result of the process. Incredible results come from being genuinely in the process, rather than anxiously anticipating the end product. * We encourage self-evaluation of work. When self-confidence is maximized, so too will be creativity. * Art/creative expression involves constant problem-solving and decision-making. We work with students/artists to become comfortable doing these aspects for and by themselves. * Some students are impulsive and rush to finish without giving enough attention to important aspects of the work. We encourage them to develop more complex products. Other students may be handicapped by being very slow and deliberate. They may be perfectionists because they are afraid to make a mistake. We reassure them. They need to appreciate the learning that comes from mistakes. We empower them by building their confidence. |
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