Summer Teaching at Florence Thomas Art School

This summer I taught a few kids classes at Florence Thomas Art School in downtown West Jefferson.  I taught still life drawing and painting to kids in grades 1-6 in June.  We learned how to look for shapes and lines in objects so that we could draw and paint what we see.

In August I taught clay classes to kids in grades 4-6.  We learned how to make hollow forms to create an animal rattle and a teapot.

I also taught a nature journal class to kids in grades 1-3.  We took a closer look at plants that we find all around us.  The kids used magnifying glasses to examine plants, taped plants in their journals, drew the plants, and wrote poems and stories about the plants they saw.