Watch Me Paint: World-Class Art, World-Class Instruction
What techniques have you devised to make online learning more effective? Sometimes it rains, by Carol L. Douglas Yesterday, I taught my second class by Zoom. I found a format which I thought would work better than my usual one-on-one teaching model. This was a variation on the paint-and-sip model (minus the wine; it was …
Asking a respected peer for an opinion is good, but sometimes we’re stuck fixing our problems without help. That’s where knowing how to self-critique comes in. Tom Sawyer’s Fence, by Carol L. Douglas, oil on canvasboard. Yesterday I got a text message from a peer that read, “Working on a commission and can’t figure out …
Ditch it, says a business consultant. We artists could learn something from him. Blizzard, by Carol L. Douglas. We all want to be outside, so my students painted out the windows yesterday. I’ve done that a few times myself! One of my students just came back from wintering in Australia. We’ve been practicing formal analysis …
Imagine if we visited the Sistine Chapel looking for things to criticize instead of enjoying it for what it is. Kaaterskill Falls, by Carol L. Douglas Anyone who has ever taught teenagers knows they are simultaneously hypercritical and thin-skinned. They must be taught to be constructive and humble. A few years ago, there was a …
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