Well HEEEEY! How about THAT!!

I'm an artist and a teacher....I treat my students and my art with the same kind of dedication, commitment and hard work. To me, there is no difference between one and the other: Teaching is an art and my art teaches me.  Check out some of my students' work on flickr:

my flickr site to my students' artwork

and below some old drawings I used as demos...

Student collaborative Chalk Drawings

Many moons ago, I was involved with a group of other art students to help promote our school, via a collaborative chalk drawing at the annual Chalk Festival in Pasadena, California. The year that we did this, Tibetan Buddhist monks were involved in creating some sand paintings a mere few feet away from us. It was inspiring to watch them. They took 2 full days of hard labor and dedication creating this exquisitely intricate mantra sand drawings on these wooden boards. And on Sunday, when the event was at it's closing, the monks humbly swept the sand away into some containers, putting all the hours of dedication and hard labor to an end. They were creators and destroyers of their work. What a powerful and humble position to place themselves in. Our drawings, too, were washed down that same night by a large street-cleaning machine. However, we played no role in our drawing's demise. Someone else did it for us. My contribution was the little girl on the bottom right, peeling away a sunny sunflower. How humbling and how liberating...

Introduction to Figure Drawing at Art Center College of Design- Continuing Studies

Hi, If you are interested in learning how to draw from a live figure drawing model,

I would like to invite you to sign up for my class at Art Center College of Design.

The class meets 2 times a day, on tuesdays and thursday nights from 7:30-10PM.

Here is a downloadable catalog:http://www.artcenter.edu/atnight/pdf/acan_catalog.pdf

If you go to page 27, you'll see my course description.

Composition and Painting

just a small snippet of the artwork that students have done in my Art Center at Night Composition and Painting class. You can get more info about this class on this link http://www.artcenter.edu/atnight/pdf/acan_catalog.pdf