Art teaching.

Lauren — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:41:52 +0000

For the last year I have been teaching private art lessons to adults and children, teaching church school, and teaching in the classroom. Below are a few pictures my adult students worked on.

This butterfly was painted in acrylic on wood. It was a copy of Andy Warhol’s butterfly print.

On the left is the Vogue cover which we did a copy of. Acrylic on paper.

This is a still life we were working on.

A pet portrait in acrylic.

DIY servanthood. Create your own slavedriver.

Lauren — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:30:07 +0000

They answered Him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Jesus answered them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

-John 8:33-36

This post is just a hashing out of what I have been reading. Feel free to ignore it if it doesn’t make any sense.

Quote and illustrations by Wallace Tripp.

Lauren — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:23:35 +0000

“The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.” -Wallace Tripp

Quotes from Hannah Coulter

Lauren — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:01:19 +0000

“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn’t shirk it. Love, after all, “hopeth all things.” But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.”

“I read books, whose voices don’t disturb the silence.”

-from Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Tick tock.

Lauren — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:47:56 +0000

Miles said, “Spiders would be excellent clockmakers.” He has been spending the morning building clocks and movie projectors since we watched Hugo last night.

Jus Don’t Seem Very Christian…

Lauren — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:45:26 +0000

Last night I was following a trail of Illustration blog links trying to get some inspiration, and I came across Tabletmonkey, a blog by Pixar artist Cory Loftis. This illustration made me laugh harder than I have in about 3 years. I love it.

Sunday of the Blind Man craft.

Lauren — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:38:20 +0000

The sixth Sunday after Pascha remembers the story of the young man who was born blind.

Supplies:

scissors
cardstock
paper clips
scotch tape
magnet tape
crayons or markers

Print the main handout on cardstock. Students can color the handout, and each should be given an eye that is already cut out. They can also color the skin parts around the eye. A paperclip should be scotch-taped onto the back of the cardstock where the healed eye will go. Then these healed eyes also will have a magnet on the back. The students will be able to use the craft to tell others that Jesus gave the blind man new eyes to see. They also should know and say that the man learned to see that Jesus is the Son of God.

This is the pdf of the blind man. This is the pdf of the healed eye.