The Art Of Teaching Of An Art Teacher
With the best dumb luck in the world, I ran into A by signing up for her drawing class at the local rec center. Being passionate about art, she volunteered to teach others in the senior program. In A's class, we do a lot of speed drawing exercises that allows us no time to think. Every time, there is a theme or concept that she wants us to explore. She would give us a brief description, but not detailed instructions of how to proceed. How we approach the subject is entirely up to us. Many times, we, the students, were stunned by what she asked us to do. Yet, by the end of class, we are astonished by what she is capable of extracting out of us within such a short time. Even we did not know we are capable of drawing like that. At the end of class, we follow A to go around to look at everybody's drawing for the day. She always finds interesting angles to interpret students' artwork, and finds something positive to say about our drawin...
