Anyone Can Teach Art | from Ridge Light Ranch

Today we're completing our 5-part series on the Classical Model of Education and how to use it to teach art with a special double episode about art in both the Dialectic and Rhetoric stages of learning.

Show Notes: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-27-dialectic-rhetoric-art/

Here's links to the other 4 parts of this series on using the Classical Model of Eduction to teach art:

• #23 How to Teach Art Using the Classical Model of Education
• #24 What are the 7 Elements of Art? (Art Grammar, Part 1 of 3)
• #25 What are the Principles of Design? (Art Grammar, Part 2 of 3)
• #26 What are the Remaining Components of Art Grammar? (Part 3 of 3) (Techniques / Media, Skills, The Purposes of Art , Art History, Art Appreciation)

Today we're talking about the other five components of the grammar (basics) of art: Techniques / Media, Skills, Purposes of Art, Art History, and Art Appreciation.

You can Find the Show Notes here: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-26-art-grammar/

• Episode 23: Art and the Classical Model of Education
• Episode 24: The 7 Elements of Art (Art Grammar, Part 1)
• Episode 25: The Principles of Design (Art Grammar, Part 2)
• Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils
• Prismacolor Scholar Colored Pencils
• Crayola's Erasable Colored pencils,
• Faber Castell's Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils
• Malcom Gladwell's book Outliers
• James Clear's short book, Mastering Creativity
• Podcast Episode #13: Art History- How to Go from Confused to Confident
• Podcast Episode #14: Why and How to Study Art History (Includes access to a nice PDF of the Free Art History Overview chartshown here!!)

Continuing our series on How to Teach Art using the Classical Model of Education, we're moving on in the grammar of art, discussing the Principles of Design!

The Principles of Design are the way the Elements of Art are used in a work of art. The Principles of Design help us to figure out why our art doesn't look like we wanted it to look and helps us articulate why we like or don't like other works of art.

Here's the full show notes: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-25-principles-of-design/

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Things We Mention

• Episode #23: Art and the Classical Model of Education
• Episode #24: The 7 Elements of Art (Art Grammar, Part 1)
• Episode #15: Grandma Moses and Folk Art
• Episode #16: Norman Rockwell
• Op Art
• Episode #18: Andrew Wyeth
• Episode #19: Roy Lichtenstein and Pop Art
• King Tut's Mask
• Peggy Dean's Book, Botanical Line Drawing
• Peggy Dean's Book, Botanical Line Drawing: Cactus and Succulent Edition
• Ross King's Book, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (may not be suitable for all ages)

We're continuing our series on the Classical Model of Education and how to use it to teach art. This is our first episode on the Grammar of art, where we're discussing the 7 Elements of Art.

Here's the Full Highlights/Outline: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-24-the-7-elements-art/

Links to Stuff we Mention

• Episode #23 Art and the Classical Model of Education
• RidgeLightRanch's 2018 art lesson plans
• The 7 Elements of Art Poster

What is the Classical Model of Education and how does it apply to art? What's a model of education to begin with?

In this podcast episode, Deanna and Julie discuss three hallmarks of a Classical education: Valuing methods over content, the Trivium, and Subject Integration.

Here's a few things we mention:

• RidgeLightRanch's 2018 art lesson plans
• Dorothy Sayer's Lost Tools of Learning
• The 7 Elements of Art

Here's the Full Highlights: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-23-art-classical-model/ ‎

There are so many reasons why art is part of education. Deanna and Julie chat about its effect on other school subjects and its inherent value in fostering creativity, visual learning, noticing details, motor skills, confidence, comfort with ambiguity, learning from mistakes, perseverance, and communication with others.

Here's a few things we mention:

• Project Zero (Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland) — an arts-education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Reviewing Education and the Arts Project (REAP) Executive Summary
• Teaching art or teaching to think like an artist? | Cindy Foley | TEDxColumbus. "Teaching for Creativity is all about Teaching the Habits Artist Employ."
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Ira Glass's quote about developing your skill to match your taste
• Willpower Instinct, by Kelly McGonigal,

Here's the full Highlights: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-22-why-art-education

One of the most common struggles we all seem to have in teaching art, is making time for art. Join Deanna and Julie and they discuss HOW to make time for both Art Appreciation AND Art Creation for both your children and yourself!

Here's the full Highlights: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-21-making-time-for-art/

Deanna & Julie discuss Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield. Who is he? What is his art like? Why should we study him?

Join us as we chat about the genre of comics, cartoons, and graphic novels and discover some great reasons to study Jim Davis and his memorable cat.

Here's the Highlights:

http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-20-jim-davis/ ‎

Get the Full Highlights Here: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-19-roy-lichtenstein/

The best place to see Roy Lichtenstein's work is at his own website. The art work images are in the "image duplicator" portion of his website.

• Series of brushstroke paintings and sculptures
• Girl with Tear I
• Haystack series (similar to Monet's haystacks)
• Water Lilies (similar to Monet's Water Lilies)
• Bedroom at Arles (similar to Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles)
• Whamm!
• Ridge Light Ranch line drawing of Whamm!
• Oooh... Alright...

• Austin Kleon's book, Steal Like An Artist, and Ted Talk
• Previous Lichtenstein blog post
• Painting Primary Colors like Roy Lichtenstein Lesson plan
• Copyright and the Art Teacher Blog Post:

Join us as we chat about Wyeth's subdued pallet and discover what it means to train your eyes to see color.

Here's the full highlights: http://ridgelightranch.com/podcast-18-andrew-wyeth/

The best place to see Andrew Wyeth's art is at his own website: Andrewwyeth.com.

• Christina's World (1948)
• Master Bedroom (1965)
• Snow Hill (1989)

• Quiller Wheel (example: https://www.quillergallery.com/shop/Poster-Size-Wheel.html)
• CIRCE's Andrew Kern talks about training children toward Attention, Imitation, and Memory
• MET and MoMA
• A previous Ridge Light Ranch blog post about Andrew Wyeth
• The Ridge Light Ranch Lesson Plan: Painting with Neutral Colors Like Andrew Wyeth