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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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Nov 27, 2017

You can find the written version of this blog post at: http://ridgelightranch.com/teach-tracing-art-curriculum/

You can access all the FREE downloads mentioned in this episode at RidgeLightRanch.com/tracing

Here's the Highlights:

Incorporate tracing to:

  • Save time
  • Fill a skill-gap
  • Ease frustration

To Trace Mindfully, ask yourself and your students questions about which way the lines are moving and where lines are relative to other lines.

The “Don’ts” of Tracing

  1. Don’t hide that you traced
  2. Don’t plagiarize
  3. Don’t assume tracing has the same emotional value as drawing.