Art Education Community

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with what you have to do that you find yourself in deep avoidance? The Web is perfect for moments like that.

I am part of a panel symposium on Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts in CLTNet. As the lead presenter, I have  been fast at work sharing resources and answering questions.

This morning I followed a link to a Ning community for art educators that one of the participants shared and was so taken with the intellectual  eye candy!

The pic featured here I drew using Kaleidoscope Painter, which was a shared resource in the community.

What first caught my eye though was this animation painter. The animation is done in Flash and it begins with a female skeleton which then is given flesh, underwear, and ends with a designer outfit.

I watched it 2xs and was blown away both times. I could learn to draw like this. I never got to take an art class in school, not one. And yet I come from a family of artists and gave birth to four talented artists. I have taught courses on creativity on the college level and I was known for the creative displays in my classrooms. I wish someone in my K-12 experience had seen the potential and put me in those classes. But typically, poor kids weren't the ones nurtured in the arts, maybe it is different now? Not.

Another cool video piece I found while there was this one on Women in Art.

 

Find more videos like this on Art Education 2.0

Or this video about Gilles Tréhin, a dedicated artist and artistic savant, who began designing an imaginary city, Dumont d'Urville.

Take some time and check out this Ning community, but be prepared to get lost in learning for a few hours!

Comments

[Paige]

Women in Art is one of my favorites...the transformation is amazing. The opportunities for creativity in current technologies are increasingly apparent. It is fascinating to know many who find the two domains (art & technology) their passions as I do. Craig Roland's Art 2.0 is a site that captures our dual interests and the integration. So glad you found it time-worthy as I do!http://arted20.ning.com/profile/pvbaggett

[craigr]

First of all, thanks again for highlighting Art Education 2.0 on your blog. We've experienced steady growth in our membership since our start in April and I'm pleased with the conversations that have occurred involving art educators and others from around the globe.

Second, I wanted to respond to the following comments you made:

“. . . I could learn to draw like this. I never got to take an art class in school, not one. And yet I come from a family of artists and gave birth to four talented artists. I have taught courses on creativity on the college level and I was known for the creative displays in my classrooms. I wish someone in my K-12 experience had seen the potential and put me in those classes.”

As Daniel Pink points out in his book , A Whole New Mind, learning how to draw is one of the best ways to understand and develop the aptitude of Symphony (i.e., seeing the “big picture”). While drawing is one of the most important skills taught in K-12 art classrooms, it's never too late to learn how to draw! In his book, Pink describes his experience taking a drawing class based on methods pioneered by Betty Edwards and detailed in her popular book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. He vividly illustrates, with before and after self-portraits drawn in the five-day course, that anyone can learn to draw with the right instruction and motivation.

Encouraged by his success in the course, Pink emphasizes that learning to draw requires one to become better at seeing relationships-between space and negative space, light and shadow, and angles and proportions. Having taught drawing to learners of all ages over the years, I can attest to the fact that while adults are often “visually-challenged” by years of neglecting the “seeing muscles” in their brains, they can learn to “see anew” and begin making very competent drawings within a short period of time.

BTW: I've enjoyed your blog for sometime now.