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We help you love teaching art so that you can give your children all the benefits of art and creativity in their education.

Teaching art can feel overwhelming, but I’m confident that, no matter what your background is, YOU can teach art! In this weekly podcast, you’ll receive help with the details and the big picture of teaching art as my guests and I discuss topics like:

  • Fun art project ideas
  • What to teach in an art lesson and how to teach it
  • Where to buy art supplies, and what supplies I suggest
  • Scripts for explaining hard concepts to students
  • The Elements of Art
  • The Classical model of education, and
  • What it means to live a creative life

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35- Four More Secrets to Adding Depth to your Art (part 2)

Oct 26, 2018

In this 2nd half of our discussion on the 7 Methods of Perspective, we're talking about: Shadows, Angle of Lines, Degree of Detail, and Color! These skills are a little less intuitive so they're especially fun to learn and then see in everyday life!

Show notes are at: https://ridgelightranch.com/

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34- How to Easily Add Depth to Drawings, Part 1

Oct 15, 2018

This is the first half of our discussion of the 7 Methods of Perspective. In these two episodes, we chat about all the ways to add depth to your drawings. In this episode we discuss: Overlap, Size, and Horizontal Placement.

In episode 35 we'll cover the other 4 Methods of Perspective.

Show Notes:  

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33- Illuminated Manuscripts

Oct 1, 2018

We're going back to the Book of Kells and other illuminated manuscripts (as promised in episode 31 about Ancient Celtic Abstract Art)! In this episode we answer the questions:

  • When and where were Illuminated manuscripts created? What were they?
  • What can we learn from looking at several examples of Illuminated...

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