No drawing today.
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Merry Christmas Everyone
From Strasbourg, France, the capital of Christmas!
Joyeux Noël – Frohe Weihnachten – Feliz Navidad
What’s the Value of an Art Museum Field Trip?
Museum Field Trips have a lot value for school kids, according to the report by Anne Kraybill (September 16, 2013. Art Museum Teaching). Taking students to an art museum improves critical thinking skills, increases appreciation and understanding of history and tolerance of alternative ideas.
For more detail, see The Educational Value of Field Trips by Jay P. Greene, Daniel H. Bowen and Brian Kisida.
Reading – Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone.
An autobiography about Eric Fischl’s life/career.
About 1/2 way through.
Nice.
In the beginning – there were the three, and from the three came many
Caption Contest from 1930s! A ghostly view into the present?
What is she thinking? What do YOU think? – Click to enlarge to see her face.
This photo formed the base for an iPad drawing I did of the same scene 80 years later, circa 2012, for the Kaiserslautern Media Center. I always wondered what she was doing and thinking. Was she looking for the trolley? Did she see Mr. Turgetto, the photographer? Can she see me standing beside him, through time? I will look for her the next time I walk by this spot.
Winter landscape 2
Rusty purple trees winter landscape
