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Arts in the Schools – A Secret Plot to Connect the Arts to Academic Success

by netGALAXY Studios | Oct 4, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

A Secret Plot, Using the Arts to Bring Test Scores Up. As artist in residence in North Charleston I taught kids and their teachers how to draw. It was a simple mission. People who believed that they were not talented achieved success and there were a lot of...

50 Reasons Why Your Kid (YOU!) Should Learn to Draw and Paint

by netGALAXY Studios | Oct 4, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

50 Reasons Why YOU Should (and still can) Learn to Draw and Paint My big message in school presentations (and wherever someone is listening) has always been: visual literacy is possible and available to everyone, no talent or golden ticket required. And yet,...

Painting with ADHD

by netGALAXY Studios | Oct 3, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” — Thomas Edison Embracing Your “Limitations” Some of the best artists I know live in a world of chaos called ADHD. They love to play in the mud of ambiguity. I’m not sure if...

Awakening Marsh Demo

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 25, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Awakening Marsh – Demonstration Sometimes a demo is just what the students (and teacher) needs to get the juices flowing. Awakening Marsh was a demo for students from a photo I’ve been eying for a while. I don’t often take on sun rises but...

Crying in the Face of Beauty

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 23, 2013 | Art Instruction, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View

Why Do We Cry? “We cry only in the face of beauty.” Alan Langdon, legendary acting coach I’m not sure where Alan got this quote but it has always stuck with me, not only in my career as an actor but also in my career as a human. There is a lot of...

Brush with Wine Events

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 17, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Brush with Wine As an experiment to find out what’s up with all those Wine and paint party venues popping up all over the place I asked myself, what if we tweaked this party-paint-along concept to make it more meaningful and not just a drunken brew-ha-ha? I...

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