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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:51 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:05 am
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I was blessed to have both supportive and unsupportive art teachers in school. I feel as if both kinds are necessary for a good artist. The unsupportive types helped me realize that not everyone is going to appreciate my style. And no matter how good you draw, not everyone is going to like it. It's something that every artist needs to come to terms with one day. Artists who give up because of a critical or down right vicious critic, are just artists who haven't come to terms with the whole "not everyone is going to like your work."
It's unfortunate that school teachers don't encourage and nourish a creative mind, but secretly, and probably unintentionally, they're teaching another valuable lesson to aspiring artists. Art is subjective, not everyone's going to like it.
I personally had a teacher in grade 8 tell me to stop drawing, that I'll never succeed in a art related career. And I've proven her wrong. She told me that and it t*cked me off so much I made it my mission to prove her wrong. She probably shouldn't have said that to a student, especially at such a young age, but she did. Thankfully it didn't discourage me too much.
The other discouraging thing I've heard through ALL of my art training is "If you're in it for the money, get out now." It's discouraging knowing that in an art related career it's very difficult to make a comfortable amount of money. But I believe that most of us pursue an art related career in order to enjoy our work. Not so much to make millions.
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:08 am
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:33 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:39 am
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I personally LOVE art classes. I have been taking classes from my teacher since 8th grade, and I have grown rapidly from her training. She takes classes from Watts Atelier, so she knows her stuff. I have been taught how to really "see," the planes of the face, soft/hard edges, line quality, coloring skin tones...TONS. I absorb it like a sponge. It's great.
But sculpture classes, I've had bad experiences. I went to CSSSA, which runs a summer program at CalArts, and I was forced to take sculpture classes. I always considered sculpture like molding clay or using plaster or chipping away marble or something. But here, it was cardboard in a workshop. And the teacher wanted us to make something that "made music" or whatever. Most boring class ever. I don't like breaking my back to go out of my way to cut things out, hot glue things, etc...all that masculine hands-on work for something I'm not inspired to do.
Now I want nothing to do with sculpture. Dx
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:33 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:59 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:24 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:48 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:18 pm
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I totally agree, I was one of those kids.
I remember in 10th grade I took a computer art class. I wasn't very good at it, so I was expecting to actually learn how to use photoshop better and learn some new techniques, right? Well, he was a great computer artist, but a very poor teacher. Rather than teach us HOW to use the program, he just assigned us macs and said to EXPLORE photoshop on our own. Sure I learned a few new things on my own, but I feel I could have learned so much more if he had actually sat down an demonstrated the program. There just wasn't enough direction or structure for me.
That and he would turn around and mark me poorly on assignments and did not give any constructive criticism on how I could do better when I didn't know what the heck I was doing in the first place cuz he didn't teach photoshop! Ugh! stressed
This was def my worst art experience. I had always excelled in art, so I was very discouraged after that class. I can handle getting a bad grade, but I'd like to be able to learn my mistakes and get better; very frustrating with having no feedback. It turned me off of any other art classes for the rest of high school.
I'm only now coming back to art and have been taking a few classes throughout college. They've been great! Excellent teachers, very challenging. I haven't been getting the best grades, but I'm learning so many things that I missed out on in high school and you can see a significant improvement in my work. I'll actually be switching my major to Art when I get back. smile
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