Category: teaching
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Bottom Line
Stack of warps waiting to be woven One of the things that makes me sad is seeing photos on the internet of people sitting at looms with poor posture/position. Why does that make me sad? Because I know these people are inviting injury to their bodies. It is one reason I really like teaching brand…
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Hard Knocks
One phrase I don’t hear all that often anymore is people learning from the School of Hard Knocks. It was a phrase often used in my childhood, especially by my father who never actually attended school. He learned his ABC’s and how to write (draw) his name, but otherwise learned via experience…or, the School…
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Hard Knocks
One phrase I don’t hear all that often anymore is people learning from the School of Hard Knocks. It was a phrase often used in my childhood, especially by my father who never actually attended school. He learned his ABC’s and how to write (draw) his name, but otherwise learned via experience…or, the School…
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Hard Knocks
One phrase I don’t hear all that often anymore is people learning from the School of Hard Knocks. It was a phrase often used in my childhood, especially by my father who never actually attended school. He learned his ABC’s and how to write (draw) his name, but otherwise learned via experience…or, the School…
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Begin, Again
Now that the warp on the AVL is woven, it is time to get back to Olds class prep. I kept thinking I had three weeks. Wrong! I have (gulp) nine days! So it is back to warp winding, sample pulling, teaching aid deciding, equipment packing, papers photocopying, and CD burning. I can’t forget…
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Good Night, Edmonton
It is 10:20 pm, with about three weeks to go before the solstice. Edmonton is about the same latitude as home so these long summer days are very familiar to me, and bittersweet because very soon the sun will begin its slow journey into winter with days as short as the nights currently are. …
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Reality Rears
The colours are actually much darker in real life and I’m quite happy with it. I will show my client and tell her to ‘see’ it darker and hope she likes it. I have been kind of hiding from the reality that I leave for Edmonton Thursday morning – as early as I can get…
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Value
Some examples of student learning exercises related to value. If someone doesn’t have an instinctive sense of how to work with colour the eye can be trained by such exercises, looking at how the value of a hue can be changed, and how different values play together. A couple of mantras are: White dilutes.…
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Day Two
Work is well underway at the closing of day two. I talk a lot, mainly because there is so much to say. Hopefully everyone will be able to get their class work done in spite of me. The room is cosy, and the weather has been on the cooler side so staying indoors to…
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Multi-tasking?
I feel like a one armed paper hanger at the minute. There are so many things to juggle I am having a hard time staying on track to finish any one thing. I wish my studio looked this neat and tidy right now – there are boxes piled all over as I try to sort…