Anyone Can Teach Art | from Ridge Light Ranch

As summer is approaching and you're planning your vacations, we hope you'll include a visit to a few art museums! Join us today as we discuss the benefits of visiting museums with your kids and how to prepare for a really fun trip to the museum!

Full Show Notes: https://ridgelightranch.com/successful-museum-visit/

Welcome to Season 3 of the Anyone Can Teach Art podcast!! This week we're talking about classroom management. We're focusing on the art classroom but, of course, most of this applies to any classroom with children or even adults. Classroom management can be a real challenge for all for us, but there are key principles we can turn to, to help us be the most effective teachers we can be.

The keys are to:

• Be Prepared
• Be Positive
• Be Consistent

For more details check out the full show notes: https://ridgelightranch.com/classroom-management-podcast-46/

This 'best-of' episode is a sample of about 10 minutes of each of our six episodes about Renaissance Artists (Episodes #36-41).

-For full show notes visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/bestof-renaissance-artists-podcast-45

-Please note: Starting in April, new episodes will be released every other Thursday (not Mondays like season 1 and 2).

-For info about our local summer art classes visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/art-classes/.

-For updates on my upcoming book visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/book/.

This episode is the Best of our 6 part series on Ancient Art (episodes 28-33).

-For full show notes visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/bestof-ancient-art-podcast-44/

-Please note: Starting in April, new episodes will be released every other Thursday (not Mondays like season 1 and 2).

-For info about our local summer art classes visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/art-classes/.

-For updates on my upcoming book visit: https://ridgelightranch.com/book/.

Episodes #23-27 were about how to use the Classical Model to teach art. We're summarizing them for you in this 'best-of' episode as a great refresher or an excellent introduction to the Classical Model of Education and how to use it to teach art.

If we're always determined to create a masterpiece with every sketch, we miss out on some of the best ways to improve our drawing skills. The best way to get better at anything is through deliberate, regular practice of a smaller skill set. In art, we use drawing drills to improve our skills.

Show Notes: https://ridgelightranch.com/drawing-drills-podcast-42/

It's time for the El Greco episode. Just like how Giotto came before the Renaissance and helped to get it started, El Greco came at the end of the Renaissance and shows us the transition away from the Renaissance style of art.

It's the last of our 6-part series on Artists of the Renaissance.

Show notes and pictures: https://ridgelightranch.com/why-study-el-greco-podcast-41/

Michelangelo was an amazingly talented painter, architect, and poet, but his favorite art form was sculpting. He was probably the most talented sculptor who ever lived, perhaps even the most talented artist who ever lived. His art was dramatic, detailed, and always perfect. The people he sculpted were usually twisting or displayed in striking (or maybe awkward) poses. All this drama makes Michelangelo a link between the traditional Renaissance art and the Mannerist movement which bridges the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Join us as we chate about Michelangelo, one of the most famous artists of all time... and about how to handle all the nudes when we're teaching our kids about Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists.

Show Notes: https://ridgelightranch.com/michelangelo-podcast-40/

You can find the full show notes here: https://ridgelightranch.com/albrecht-durer-podcast-39/

Albrecht Durer was known as the "Leonardo da Vinci of Germany," but he was a Renaissance trendsetter in the whole European art world. His impact reached far beyond Germany, partially because he traveled to other countries, but more because his Woodblock cuts were far beyond what anyone had ever created! However, Durer wasn't just an artist, he was also interested in theology, science, proportions, math, geometry, and epistemology (the study of the foundation of knowledge).

We can see the Gothic-to-Renaissance progression over the years in Fra Angelico's works of art and have rich conversations about the underlying philosophies and worldviews that influenced art at this time. Fra Angelico's artwork also shows some examples of foreshortening, a key drawing skill!

Click through to the show notes for all the links and a place to comment!

https://ridgelightranch.com/why-study-fra-angelico-podcast-38/