My twenty-first year teaching also marked my first year teaching high school drawing and painting. When I accepted my position at the high school back in 1996, I was hired to teach a highly specialized crafts program. For the past fifteen years, I taught three basic units of bookarts, metals and ceramics, smattered with some printmaking and mixed media while my colleague taught drawing and painting. The budget cuts eliminated any familiarity of what was our award winning art program and trimmed it down to one teacher (me) and one class (Creative Arts), taught three times a day. I also teach the entire middle school in cycle rotations, during the other three teaching periods of my day. whew.
I learned that resentment really wrecks a good mood! I wanted to feel good about my job again. This lesson helped me with that! It began with six beautiful bouquets of flowers ($20 at our local, bulk flower supplier). My room looked beautiful and smelled even better! The students drew using a viewfinder and created a composition for what was to become their tempera batik painting. The finished results are stunning!
This lesson yielded fantastic paintings for every student. It is the topic for my next DVD! If you’d like to see more student images, click here. The new video is scheduled for release in early October. Please check kiickstart.com for current information.
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