Mark Making/Drawing Processes: #Covid19Art

I document and share my drawing processes with students via remote learning experience. Here are more slides of works in progress since the #Covid19 pandemic closed schools around the country:

2020 Spring Drawing Project

Before our move to remote learning due to the #Covid19 pandemic, my students and I made art together. They could see me working on art and I could observe them at the same time. We research and make art together in the studio. Since our move to home studio activity, our practice of sharing our work has continued. With our move to remote learning, students share pictures of their work and I do the same.
Here is a sequence of photographs taken from January to April of 2020 detailing the development of a large drawing that started in the classroom and was finished in my home studio. 

Photograph by Sophie W. capturing dialogue between students and I. You can see the large drawing in the back of the art room!

Do artists do research? Absolutely!

Working on a large drawing requires persistence! 

The white oval bands were risky additions. What would go inside of them? The decision to add these bands added new problems and new opportunities for artification of this piece!
A few days after this photo was taken, we made the move to remote learning.

New studio digs. There is less space in the garage than in the New Palestine High School Art Education facilities however, I can make art in my home studio any time, day or night!

Repetition and pattern creates a sense of energy and movement.

Attention to detail requires patience and care.

For now, this 72 x 32 inch drawing drawing is finished!

New Art for 2017!

Mutation, 30" x 54" paper mache, cardboard, oil paint

"Job" 23"x 35," paper mache, cardboard, oil paint

I465I70 Interchange, 23"x35," paper mache, cardboard, oil paint

I70PostRd Interchange, 23"x35," paper mache, cardboard, oil paint

2017 has been a productive year. Working with new paper mache methods, I think I have developed a promising way to create relief sculpture in this medium. I have used cardboard and paper mache as art materials since I made a paper mache dinosaur in 2nd grade. The 2nd and 3rd sculpture images were selected for the 2017 Teachers as Artist competion in Greenfield, IN. Enjoy the pics!

Fun With Stencils!

Channeling my inner-prehistoric. Here's a little urban-suburban primitive for you!

Teachers As Artists Exhibition Opening Friday, March 14th!

"High Stakes Standardized Testing," 62" x 39" as of March 7, 2014.

It is interesting to see the meager beginnings of this painting. Check it out!

Rhizome series sculpture is created with paint, cardboard and glue, is approximately 60 inches by 36.

I've been working up two pieces of art for Sandy Hall's annual Teacher As Artist Exhibition, opening this Friday, March 14th at 6 PM. I appreciate all of Sandy's effort in providing Indiana teachers with this opportunity to show their work. My painting represents the distortion to the educational process that the overuse of high stakes standardized testing represents.

Memory and Learning...

How important is experience in the process of learning? What kinds of learning sticks? Learners who are engaged with mind, body and spirit in their learning activity are much more likely to produce memories and learning that lasts for long term.

Learning Environments, Umwelts and Permaculture

Learning environments matter. Living environments matter. When individual organisms are symbiotically connected to the environment or communities in which they exist, synergistic processes beneficial to the organism become a natural outgrowth of these special places. Umwelts, a biologic and psycho-emotional phenomenon, can take root in art rooms or an urban garden oasis.