Teaching Silkscreen Techniques at TechShop in San Jose

Tech Shop in San Jose, 2011: I have been teaching silkscreen techniques at TechShop in San Jose since Aug. 2011. Below are images of my students while working, printing and their hand printed finished T. Shirts. I really enjoy teaching silkscreen techniques at the TechShop; it is a cool, spacious place with good friendly crew to work with and wonderful students to teach.

One of the students on Wed. Nov. 30th printed a fun T.shirt combining Tech shop Logo with his chosen design

students are preparing their screen after with their stancils on them

Preparing to print on the t.shirt

printing on the t.shirt

t.shirt is ready!

another fun image prepared and printed on the t.shirt

me, cleaning the squeegee

student printing on his test fabric

 

transferring stancil

adding details to vinyl stancil

the finished stancil, ready to print

blocking areas outside the printing stancil on the screen

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a finished hand printed t.shirt

another t.shirt printed and ready to wear

running the squeegee across the screen

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another happy student wearing his finished hand printed t.shirt

Art Events and Museum Visits

I sometimes take my private students to museums to visit a specific show. Below are images from San Jose Museum of Art where we visited Chuck Close Exhibition.

my students around the activity table

Alec is showing me his drawing

It is also fun to hold group art events. Here are the images from an art event with many great, talented kids, working on a long drawing paper with tempera paints:

My Private Teaching Sessions and Projects

I have been teaching private art lessons to age group 5-15 for a few years now, and below are some of the images of my students and their works.

 

 

 

Alec, Anthony and Sara while painting

Lessons on Early 20th Century Masters:

Age 9, a lesson with Van Gough, watercolor on paper

Age 9, a lesson with Matisse, watercolor on paper

age 7.5, a lesson using Pointillism with Georges Seurat, tempera on paper

age 10, another lesson with Matisse, watercolor on paper

age 9, T.shirt design with Kandinsky/Abstract Art

age 13, T.shirt design with Kandinsky/Abstract Art

age 14, my student is drawing the image on her paper, a lesson with Paul Gauguin. She is using grid, and created a color palette chart for her painting

age 14, the finished work: a painting lesson with Paul Gauguin, watercolor on paper

age 13, a lesson on composition, acrylic technique, warm and cool colors. Acrylic on paper

age 14, watercolor on paper

age 12, watercolor on paper

age 6, a lesson on arrangement of still-life in a frame, color and pattern, acrylic on paper

age 8. a lesson on arrangement of still-life in a frame, color and pattern, acrylic on paper

age 6, my student's first lesson on perspective, how to draw a 3-D house

age 8, my student's first painting using perspective

Students' Art Shows

Below are images from my Students' art shows in Gallery Space at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View, in 2009. CSMA Program Coordinator, Kyle Williams, and I selected almost 200 artworks from 5 classes. The show exhibited Students K-5 grades. Artworks included ceramics masks, self portraits and horses acrylic charcoal drawings, positive-negative space wood paintings, mixed-media ship paintings, quilt collage works and many more. CSMA hold a reception for students and parent on a Thurs. evening, which was packed with proud parents and students.

 

Below are some images from another students' show that I curated and installed the works, in Christian Assembly Center in Milpitas. My students age 5-10 showed artworks that were a mix of paper-mache, drawings, collage and mixed-media. Art Program Director at the Center arranged a nice reception for kids and their parents and we made a poster for it to announce our show.