This fall I started teaching at a private school--a very small school with 16 students where I teach intermediate French to a class of four teenage boys and then a calligraphy/art/bookmaking class with all the students. Their year is split up into trimesters (this is the last week of the first one) and starting next week I will be teaching baking instead of art. To wrap up the trimester I had each of the kids make a book as their final project to incorporate their calligraphy. I learned a lot in this first little foray into teaching and I hope the kids did too--so don't mind me while I shamelessly show off my students' work.
This student wants to be an astronomer....
A book with some wonderful horse illustrations...
A very clever "sunrise over the green mountains" book...
A book with great photos taken by the student--I made it a requirement that they use their own original photography...
A Harry Potter themed book with a different subject for each page like "potions" or "astronomy" pictured here...
This student chose to use watercolor as their media and I can't help but love the rainbow effect they achieved on the pages...
This student requested that I tie a "pretty bow" before I photographed their book. I will admit that their attempt at a bow was rather pitiful but what can you expect from a 14 year old boy?
A look inside at this Christmas themed book...
The book of cute cat pictures...
A book based on the principles of Tae-Kwon-Do...
Another nice sunrise book....
And lastly a glimpse into the assembly process/mess of yesterday's class.
Although I have enjoyed teaching, I am so incredibly glad that I don't have to continue teaching art to these kids. I found that very few of them were enthused by the idea of calligraphy and bookmaking but baking---well everybody likes food so I have a feeling that I will have some more willing participants in that class.
xoxo CBB
