I am really enjoying the entire process of teaching and learning to teach. There is so much wonderful information to engage with and to share with the class. It's been great to work with the faculty at CSUF and see how they motivate, inform, demonstrate and inspire... each in their own way.
I teach an advanced life drawing class this term. The students are great and the term has been going well. One of the components of an art class is doing demonstrations - demos - of techniques, processes and/or to illustrate new ways of seeing the figure, through form, gesture, anatomy or the play of light. I'm sure that everyone is different, but when the demos go well then I have more fun and the class seems to go better. Of course that may be in part that a bad demo has the effect of frustrating everyone, including me.
I usually don't hold on to demo images. When they work I tend to give them to the student who asked the question as a visual for reference. But I'm told that they can be useful down the line so I've started taking pics with my phone or when I'm having work shot. Here is a little slideshow of some recent demo images. If you have a question and I can demo a drawing or painting for it, I'll make that a future post.
Most are 2 or 5 minute drawings, with a quick overlay to show how to block in the skeleton done in a few minutes over a very quick drawing. The media is mostly Cretacolor XL sticks on paper, with a little NuPastel on better stock from time to time. I'll add a few recent head studies when I get images.
I teach an advanced life drawing class this term. The students are great and the term has been going well. One of the components of an art class is doing demonstrations - demos - of techniques, processes and/or to illustrate new ways of seeing the figure, through form, gesture, anatomy or the play of light. I'm sure that everyone is different, but when the demos go well then I have more fun and the class seems to go better. Of course that may be in part that a bad demo has the effect of frustrating everyone, including me.
I usually don't hold on to demo images. When they work I tend to give them to the student who asked the question as a visual for reference. But I'm told that they can be useful down the line so I've started taking pics with my phone or when I'm having work shot. Here is a little slideshow of some recent demo images. If you have a question and I can demo a drawing or painting for it, I'll make that a future post.
Most are 2 or 5 minute drawings, with a quick overlay to show how to block in the skeleton done in a few minutes over a very quick drawing. The media is mostly Cretacolor XL sticks on paper, with a little NuPastel on better stock from time to time. I'll add a few recent head studies when I get images.