Category Archives: Inspiration

Things that inspire me to create art and write about it.

February 6, 2013 · 3:31 pm

Knowledge = Exploration x Experience

Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment. –Maria Montessori

In the photo above, a 4 year-old child explores geometric forms after discussing the art of Wassily Kandinsky. During Art, children learned about his passion for music, his love of the arts and his desire to unite the two in harmony through color and form. Students continued to work over their collage the following class with watercolor while listening to music composed of a gentle and calm melody.

Maybe my mathematical formula will be fancied by the DOE. Let’s keep the Arts alive.

After all, the earth without “art” is just “eh”.

I enjoy what I do. -MJ

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January 11, 2013 · 12:24 pm

Prehistoric Beauty

Have you ever thought about the lifespan of a fern? They first appeared on earth 340 million years ago!

Ferns hold such a beautiful texture, most of which is hidden from the naked eye. Relief prints can be made to help capture and understand the hidden beauty of a fern.

Students pressed ferns into clay as well as made fern prints using white ink on blue and black paper. For more information about creating fern prints in clay to produce a faux fossil, view my complete tutorial at ART ENGINE.

Look at these lovely ferns covered in white ink.