Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society

A Preface to a Creative Line - A warm up activity that will be suitable to every grade every student

A Preface to a Creative Line A Preface to a Creative Line - A warm-up activity that will be suitable for every grade and every student Students on many occasions, when newly arrived at my Art classes, show negative feelings and little or not interest towards any manuality or freehand visual experience. Demonstrating cold, sometimes sinic expressions and unoleassent beahavior. Except for those students who already have a heart for the arts. Surprisingly, the art class can move slowly and may be difficult. However, all those feelings are just based on unawareness, fear of ownself capacities and potential, previous poor teaching, and very little or no exposure to the world of creativity and visual expression, the plastic (moldable) arts. It doesn’t matter if students arrive quiet, loud, timid, short or tall, fast thinkers or lacking self-confidence, they must be all welcome to experience the magic of the free line and colors, the amazing feeling of making visual displays ca...

Digital Imagery - Color and Form (Using Photoshop Suit)

Digital Imagery With the help of Digital Cameras and Photoshop Suit, my students create great art pieces, demonstrating excellent use of the program and using to the max the photos taken with a very regular camera. We are looking at: Direccion Depth Repetition Contrast Form Color Use of the Space Students are to be aware and understand: Pixels (pictures elements) Color Gradation RGB Dimensions (expressed by pixels) Resolution (PPI - Printing good) Students study and applied depth - perceiving these depths through shapes in order to keep viewers vision active. Seeing means grasping some outstanding features of objects, like; the color of the sky, the curve of the long tree, the rectangularity of the object to the right, and so on. Depth comes from the correct use of the Principals of Art and Design. Through...

I Play It All !

I play it all in each class. With each student of mine. I look at them closely, I see their eyes. I want to move their reason and heart. To bring life in each of their works of art.

Art = Critical Mind

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