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FOTI: Coloring Books from the 1960s!
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FOTI: Doodling Helps Memories Stick
Shelley Paul and Jill Gough had heard that doodling while taking notes could help improve memory and concept retention, but as instructional coaches they were reluctant to bring the idea to teachers without trying it out themselves first.
To give it a fair shot, Paul tried sketching all her notes from a two-day conference. By the end, her drawings had improved and she was convinced the approach could work for kids, too.
“It causes you to…
FOTI: Looking at lovely things—and people—can improve quality of life
The usual markers of happiness are colloquially known as the “Big Seven”: wealth (especially compared to those around you), family relationships, career, friends, health, freedom, and personal values, as outlined by London School of Economics professor Richard Layard in Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. According to the Goldberg study, however, what makes people happiest isn’t even in the Big Seven. Instead, happiness is most easily attained by living in an aesthetically beautiful city. The things people were constantly…
FOTI: Nameless Paints
“By not assigning names to the colors we want to expand the definition of what a color can be, and the various shades they can create by mixing them,”explains Yusuke Imai. Together with Ayami Moteki they form the design duo Ima Moteki…
FOTI: A List of 100 Suggestions on How to Live and Work as an Artist
FOTI is a new tag on my blog. It stands for Found On The Internet: things I’ve found interesting and thought you might as well.
Irwin Greenberg circulated this primer to his students at the High School of Art & Design and the Art Students League of New York. He died, age 87, in 2009.
Like a lot of realist painters, I started teaching as a way to stabilize my income. I was amazed to discover that it would be one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. Somehow, everything I have learned in my life found a place in the studio classroom…
1. Paint every day.
12. Don’t allow yourself to be crushed by failure. Rembrandt had failures. Success grows from failure.
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