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Google Group at TechShop: Silkscreen Workshop

2012-02-01T12:07:00.000-08:00

Last night, Tues. Jan. 31st, I taught Silkscreen Basics techniques to a Group of people from Google. A fun, energetic group!

at Techshop with some of the staff's help, we set up the tables, transferred the logos to the screens and I demonstrated the process to the group. At each station, they worked as a team, 4 people in each team, total of 5 stations. The group did an amazing job, printing their T.shirts. The process and ideas gradually became more creative as they continued their printing; some "upside down," or "repetition" of the Google, and FinOps logos, or printing the logos on the "T.shirt's sleeves" were the results. Here are some of the photos and a video:

Vinyl Stancil transferred to the screen

One the stations, ready for people to start printing.

different stations, with printing materials and T.shirts.

Tour of the space

Tour of the space before we started

My demo: a rendition of the Google logo printed on the T.shirt

A team is printing on a T.shirt.

one of the teams is figuring out the placement of the logo on the T.shirt

Two stations, teams in action

I am observing one of the team's process: they were discussing the placement of the logo on the T. shirt's sleeve; Creative!

I am handing tape to one of the people, he didn't need it though.:)

Fun conversation over where to print the logo

At one of the stations, busy with action, good ideas and energy!

Securing the T.shirt on the table.

People in one of the teams helping each other

Printing the FinOps logo

Be creative: Google upside down!

Both logos together

Logo on the back of a T.shirt

FinOps logo printed perfectly on the back of a T.shirt.

Teaching Silkscreen Techniques at TechShop in San Jose

2011-11-25T18:08:00.001-08:00

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

Add caption

a finished hand printed t.shirt

another t.shirt printed and ready to wear

running the squeegee across the screen

Add caption

another happy student wearing his finished hand printed t.shirt

Art Events and Museum Visits

2011-11-23T19:05:00.001-08:00

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

2011-11-23T18:30:00.001-08:00

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

2011-11-23T18:02:00.001-08:00

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.

We are Socially Networked installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art

2011-11-21T09:07:00.001-08:00

We are Socially Networked was a collaborative installation in the form of a social network diagram by me and my students from Nimitz Elementary School, in Sunnyvale, which was on display April - June 2011, in the Come On Down! Project Area, at the Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College in Cupertino. This project took the experience of art-making beyond the classroom’s walls, inviting the youth to look at the intersection of art, technology and life in Silicon Valley. Nimitz Elementary School students worked with me as part of the Euphrat Museum’s acclaimed Arts & Schools Program and the project was connected to my Artist of the Year Award, which I received from the Fine Arts Commission in City of Cupertino, in August 2010.

Students from Nimitz School (3rd – 5th grade) viewed my Mediated Senses series mixed-media prints and talked about its content and visual elements. I printed technological icons and images on a few pages using silkscreen, then the students drew and collaged their own artworks around my hand-printed images; they juxtaposed environmental images, and/or digital technology gadgets, logos, or devices. On exhibition also was two of my artworks from the series, exploring technological gadgets, the Internet and social networking applicationsand their impact on our environments, behavior, and physical environments.

Below are images from the classroom at Nimitz School and the final installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art:

My students and I at Nimitz classroom, discussing the project content and reviewing steps

I am showing students one of my artworks from the series

One of students is drawing around my hand-printed image of a radio satellite

Students drawing and collaging their own works

Students around the table, drawing

A finished student's work with technological companies logos, and environmental images

A finished student's work with my hand-printed image in the center

another finished drawing

My hand-printed Tesla Tower on the right and a finished student's work on the left, student drew his images around my printed element

Perp. for the installation at the Euphrat Museum of Art


Final installation in the form of a Social Network diagram: students' artworks, paper, printed text and tape on the wall, 6x6 feet

View of the We are Socially Networked installation, my artworks and another installation from another school in the exhibition area at the Euphrat Museum of Art


View of the installation with two of my artworks on display

Cyberland, 2010, silkscreen, monoprint and watercolor on paper

Mechanical Shift, 2010, silkscreen, and watercolor on paper


Aesthetic of Listening, 2010, silkscreen, graphite and watercolor on paper

Some of my artworks that students viewed for this project.

Puffy Birds

2011-11-19T22:12:00.001-08:00

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), 2011: a 3-D project on birds. Students, gr. 3-5, went imaginative with their creations.

Chinese Dragons

2011-11-19T21:39:00.001-08:00

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), 2011: It was the first time that I gave my students, Gr. K-2, a dragon drawing project. I was impressed with how each dragon and its environment came to life in a unique way.