"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day."
— Winston Churchill
Welcome Back to School...FALL 2023
I am very excited about seeing my friends from years past and meeting new friends at Open House and the first week of school.
This website has lessons that I have taught in the past and will be updated with new lessons as the year progresses.
Click the above image to grab this year's coloring page : )
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It is full of printmaking supplies at the moment, but I will be updating it throughout the year for specialty items.
Thank you for your support.
Please check out my YouTube Channel for helpful videos.
I have created videos for almost every lesson I have taught so far this year and put them together in this channel. Subscribe to this and you can get notifications of anytime I create a new video...which is usually at least 2 times per week.
It doesn't take a lot of materials to explore art!
I used a pencil, a felt tip marker and some colored markers to create my quick samples. You can use any materials that you can find at home. Each of these ideas could start a series of work. SInce we have nothing but time, use it to let your imagination flow and see how far you can push your creativity.
I hope you are finding these ideas inspiring. Let me know by sending me a picture of what you have created this week at jason.sword@cms.k12.nc.us
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Big Hand, Tiny Sketchbook!
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach by Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution, and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we know.
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source, and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.