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The Top 3 Qualities of a Great Art Teacher

4/1/2019

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I took my first acrylic painting class when I was 13, and followed up that learning with taking graphic design in high school. My first painting class consisted of 8 weeks of 1 hour classes in a non-structured lesson plan environment. Basically, you were given a blank stapled canvass, bottles of cheap acrylic paint in the 5 basic primary colors, and were told ready-set-go. In my graphics design class we always received a lesson and then completed an art activity related to the lesson that was shown that same day. Classes in high school were also under an hour.

Nowadays you can purchase an art book from a store, and learn just about any skill set through disciplined study. So then the questions we must ask ourselves when choosing an art teacher to learn from are:

1. What is the need/ purpose of an art teacher
2. What can an art teacher teach you in-person that you can not get from an art book?


The answer to the first question is simply.....

"A great art teacher inspires their student first, and guides their student to develop their creativity, technique to discover their own style."

The answer to the second question are the following 3 qualities:

1. GREAT PERSONALITY: They have excellent/ above average customer service skills.
  • Understands their students creative learning needs, goals, strengths, weaknesses, and preferred art style/ art medium interests. The teacher is able to take this information to develop their student's potential by focusing on their strengths and giving them suggestions on different techniques through demonstration.
  • Able to relate to diverse groups of people,
  • Able to work within their students allocated time and budget.
  • Knows when to have fun and is great at engaging students in learning-based conversation, with the ability to explain the lesson plan, or mentor the student individually if there isn't one.
  • Is humble, and open to learning new techniques and style from their students, and demonstrate a wide variety of art genre's within the medium they are teaching. Even if it is not the teacher's preferred genre, and especially if their student is more knowledgeable then them self on a particular technique,.

2. DIVERSE IN MULTIPLE ART GENRES/ MEDIUMS: A great art teacher is a student themselves who is always expanding his/ or her horizons by developing their current artistic skill set by trying new mediums, and learning a variety of genres.

3. INTERMEDIATE- MASTERY OF CHOSEN SKILL-SET TEACHING: I have always believed that as a teacher you must always be in tune with current industry trends and be continually educating yourself on new techniques and artistic methods. That being said, as long as you have created works, there is a skill set that you posses, and must master to teach your students well. Just because some one is a great artist, does not mean they will be a great art teacher, no matter how much of an art education they have. Teaching is not easy, and is one of the most challenging and rewarding careers if done right. It is great to teach traditional methods (foundation skillets) such as:
  • Color Mixing : How to mix primary colors to create other colors, the do's and dont's of mixing, etc.
  • Brush Care & Brush Applications: How to care for your brushes, and which brush/ or knives to use for various techniques
  • Drawing composition for painting: How to draw basic shapes, lines, etc

But unless you can unravel the mysteries of creating artwork, and make learning art less intimidating, more fun, and keep your student's engaged from the beginning to the end of the class, you have not yet mastered the 3 top qualities. Never under estimate your student's potential, as you will be surprised what you can learn from them
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