Tuesday 16 August 2011
Florida Cattle
Florida Cattle
20x24 inches
oil on wood panel
Paddiwhack Gallery in Gainesville, Florida
See my work HERE
Notes From the Studio
In 2009 I switched over to teaching online with E-Classes. It was the best thing I ever did for myself and my students. I am much more organized and more thorough with lesson plans than I used to be. I'm more focused too. Instead of a day or two to teach a concept, I have 6 weeks now for each. I like teaching online because it doesn't interfere with my painting schedule, my students get more of my attention too.
The unanticipated benefit is that I am learning from my own classes much more thoroughly than I ever did as a real time teacher. I think I have to do more research now, more illustrations, more thinking about how to paint than I did as a real time teacher. Teaching online effectively takes analysis of process in a way that real time does not. it's easy to pick up the brush and say "see, I do it this way" than it is to actually explain process in a virtual class. So now, as I paint, I must be thinking, How am I actually doing this and what do they need to do to learn to as well.
20x24 inches
oil on wood panel
Paddiwhack Gallery in Gainesville, Florida
See my work HERE
Notes From the Studio
In 2009 I switched over to teaching online with E-Classes. It was the best thing I ever did for myself and my students. I am much more organized and more thorough with lesson plans than I used to be. I'm more focused too. Instead of a day or two to teach a concept, I have 6 weeks now for each. I like teaching online because it doesn't interfere with my painting schedule, my students get more of my attention too.
The unanticipated benefit is that I am learning from my own classes much more thoroughly than I ever did as a real time teacher. I think I have to do more research now, more illustrations, more thinking about how to paint than I did as a real time teacher. Teaching online effectively takes analysis of process in a way that real time does not. it's easy to pick up the brush and say "see, I do it this way" than it is to actually explain process in a virtual class. So now, as I paint, I must be thinking, How am I actually doing this and what do they need to do to learn to as well.
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