Private Art Tutoring
Do you have a child who is especially creative or interested in becoming a better artist?
I provide 1-on-1 art instruction for children ages 11-18, focused on cultivating their love of art, their technical understanding of basic art principles, and providing an atmosphere intent on empowering them to grow and practice their creativity.
Core Focuses:
Here’s a taste of what I teach!
01
Observation
One of the best things you can do as an artist is hone your ability to observe the world around you. We live fast paced lives and thus miss out on the details and opportunities that live in the slow and small places. Students will learn how to truly see, both the obvious and the invisible.
03
Value & Form
Though we often use line to delineate between shapes within a drawing, the world around us is made, through our eyes, by light and shadow, otherwise known as value. Grasping how value creates form and how form influences value grants the artist their ability to bend light — as well as use line to properly communicate those themes in drawing.
05
Perspective
Though we live in a three dimensional world, most art takes place on a two dimensional plane, (besides 3D art of course). Translating the 3D world into 2D is exactly that: translating. They act as two slightly different languages. Mastering perspective is like having a key or guide book that lets you understand proportional 2D space via 3D observation.
02
Figure & Ground Relationships
Understanding Figure & Ground gives language to what we observe. Its a term that describes the relationship between subject and scenery, light and shadow, positive and negative space. Learning how to identify these relationships gives the artist the ability to confidently compose each composition.
04
Color Theory
Ah, Color Theory! Famed for its complicated yet deeply important qualities, it is the hardest of what I teach to summarize. With its vast vocabulary (i.e. opacity, tint, chroma, etc.) and its diversity throughout different mediums, subject matters, and styles, (i.e. atmospheric perspective, optical mixing, layering and transparency) my goal is to communicate to my students the basics, so that they may confidently choose their palette for any and all of their works.
06
You Choose!
Though I want my students to gain a fuller and greater understanding of the above principles, it would be counter to my artistic philosophy to teach them these by way of dull, ill-fitting lessons. Rather, it’s important to me that the passions and interests of my students drive how and what they learn. Whether they want to focus on a certain subject, medium, or style, I thrive to inspire their love for art, and endurance for its practice, above all.