Kids 11 – 13yrs Painting Class with » Matthew D. Garrett
Matthew D. Garrett, Art Class / Student Work Week 8
Participants are 11 to 13 years with the addition of Colleen who is the mother of Celine and Cajah
Participants names: Tonie, Mikayla, Samantha (Sam), Elizabeth, Alexis, Cajah, Colleen, Celine, Tremayne
Mikayla.
Matthew D. Garrett Comments:
Colleen, the mother of Celine and Cajah but she likes to come and paint, which I enjoy! I’ll also have some fun photos to send soon from this week, but I hope I’m not creating work for you! This is extremely nice of you to do this for our students and they are reaching farther in their art because of all of our influence. I will tell the parents at our recital/art show as well about all the nice things you have been doing. They will love hearing and seeing this fun stuff and hearing about your kind spirit.
We are hoping to extend this class and/or hopefully run a new, longer one, but funding is just about complete for this run. Consider this: the students only met for a total of 9 weeks, and for 2 hours each week (18 hours art class total time spent over 3 months). That amounts to about 9 hours of lessons and discussion and viewing art and about 9 hours of actually drawing and painting. They have made some big leaps forward from where they began, I’m proud but they are just getting comfortable and understanding their individual “styles” of painting.
The students want to continue, the principal (headmaster) wants to continue, I want to continue, etc but of course funding it seems is mostly reserved for math and science (or at least not art), art is always first to go from budgets, so we have to find our own. Believe it or not, many people here still don’t understand that this type of creative learning helps kids to learn in ALL other areas of education and social development by showing their brain new ways to approach problems and manage their time effectively. I think the other half of their brains are being awakened through art, which can only serve to improve their work in other areas.
At this moment however, I don’t know if the course will continue after our recital (later this week), but stay tuned and I’ll keep you informed of what I know. I would love to continue – those decisions are out of my hands I’m afraid. I’m doing what I can to make sure the kids continue to 1) develop artistically and 2) have an outlet for their emotional expressions. I’m even thinking of trying to do a “paint in the park” type of thing this summer, we’ll see what I can get put together. Either way, I will make sure the students know how to get to their work on the web page(s) so they can show others and comment themselves too.
But whatever happens, know that I’m doing my best to keep this interaction between accomplished artist and developing art students going – this type of thing is rare and valuable. If only I were the School System Superintendant, there would be art everywhere!
Warm regards and appreciation,
http://matthewgarrett.bradleymis.net/mattswebsite/
Yos summary :
(-) Find blue Jelly fish, their wildest thing is that they glow in the dark (-) Fruits and flowers do not need precision if you paint them, your color commentary is best capturing the life in them and you (-) When you look at something and paint it, you can allow your first try to remain (- )
(-) Interested in mentoring? Your welcome to want more, we can have you taken onto new realms with painting if anybody over there cares enough for our project to allow it !
Bee Blessed, Yos