How to Create with what You Already Have
I moved over the weekend, confession time, I’m not the best at packing. My packing tends to be more like what you imagine an artist packing would look like, it’s creative, but I’m not sure that creativity is what most people are going for when it comes to packing. Here’s what I mean. I don’t […]
How Artists Make Pictures
Yesterday, my brother, Ashley, shared how he comes up with ideas and brings them to life in children’s books. He shared that he knows how to figure out what words to use and what order those words should appear, but how has no idea how to create illustrations. There are several parts to creating images that […]
How do you Reflect and Improve on Your Teaching?
At the end of each school year, I take time to reflect, what went well that I want to do again, what didn’t go well and how can I change it? While I did this when I taught in person, I do it even more since I teach online. With online teaching and learning, the […]
Everything you need to Know about Online Summer Art Classes
I’ve been getting a lot of questions, great questions, about the new online summer art course, Exploring Idea Generation and Visual Literacy through sketchbooks, so I wanted to take time today to answer them for you. Do I have to live in Pennsylvania to take your courses? No, even though I teach through PA homeschoolers, it […]
Behind the Scenes: How to Write a Children’s book
5 steps to consider when writing If you are like me, you never quite understand how artists think. How do they know which line to draw first, or even where to put the line? Or maybe even what part of an image is meant to draw the viewer’s attention compared to the images that play […]
Online Learning: Practical Reading with Tractionalbe
I’ve taught high school students for over 13 years and I’ve noticed that the majority of them are good at reading, but they have trouble comprehending what they’re reading and making the connection to how it applies to them. Does this sound familiar? As a homeschool parent, you’re working to teach literature and trying to […]
What you Need to Know to Move your Teaching or Business Online
I’ve been getting a lot of great questions about teaching art online and online teaching in general. I’m doing my best to answer them through blog posts instead of individual emails and messages, as it saves some time, and gets the information to more of you. If you just stumbled upon this post, and have […]
Tips on Staying Focused and Taking Action During a time of Distraction
“If you don’t PRODUCE, you won’t THRIVE” Cal Newport, DEEP Work Right now, more than ever, it feels hard to produce. It feels hard to focus. In many ways, you have more time than you did before, and at the same time it feels like you have less, or like time starting working in a […]
Art Supplies for Making Art At Home
A lot of people are asking, how will students make art at home if they don’t have supplies? While this is a valid question, we also need to be willing to ask a few different questions. When we can’t come up with an answer to a question, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t an answer, […]
Art Supply list for making Art at Home
A common question that I get from students and parents that are interested in taking the online AP 2D Design class and/or the online AP Drawing class, is what supplies are required? The simple answer is that I don’t require any specific supplies, but I also want to provide you with some ideas to get […]