paintings prints and stuff

class website: Welland Park students, tutor: Vivien Blackburn This is a website I set up for the classes to show off their work - you'll see the wide range of subjects, media, styles and experience - the differentiation I talked about in my last post on teaching styles. website address: http://sitekreator.com/wellandpark it's worth a look - there are some talented students in my classes :>) previous posts on teaching in this series: http://vivienb.blogspot.com/search/label/teaching (2 posts) and http://vivienb.blogspot.com/search/label/teachers where I talk about the good teachers I've studied with . Core elements in painting and drawing Teaching I believe is being a catalyst. You are aiming to bring out and develop the talents and increase the understanding of students. Core elements for me are: encouraging an open minded exploratory attitude from the very beginning (a relaxed atmosphere as explained in the first post, enables students to do this without fear of...

Barney Davey on his blog http://barneydavey.blogs.com/printmarket/ gives a long list of things to blog about and I thought it was a pretty good list and worth quoting here: 52 blog topics for artists - Courtesy of Art Print Issues 1. Why I support xyz charity 2. The most inspiring art teacher I have known ..... good one 3. How I came to know being a professional artist was my career path ... talked about this a bit 4. Why I love working with xyz medium ... done that :>) 5. What you can learn from the traveling exhibit at the abc museum ... done that :>) 6. Four galleries I would love to carry my work and why 7. Five contemporary artists whose works inspire and inform me done that 8. Clues to the subtle messages in my work 9. My color palette is (nature/technology/environment) driven and why 10. Ten things they don't teach you in art school 11. How being in the business of art affects my art 12. When I paint, I like to listen to Guns n' Roses/London Philharmonic/Enya/Tob...