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Artful and Educational is your resource for helping you center art in your life as a learner or teacher. From private, individualized visual art instruction, to reading recommendations and more, you are sure to find something that sparks your creativity.

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View fullsize Check out my new online Art course, great for Teens working on developing portfolios. Completely self-paced and asynchronous. #onlinecourse #learnart
View fullsize Did you know Artful and Educational offers private, one-on-one Art tutoring for teens and adults, all online, from the comfort of your own home? I teach classs from my Brooklyn studio, and offer expert guidance and support so you or your child can de
View fullsize Wishing you all a cool and colorful day, from my garden to yours.
View fullsize Noticing how light falls on the kitchen wall. A small moment of great joy. Grateful to be an artist and notice these things. #artist #light #shadows
View fullsize Experimenting with cut-paper in my studio to develop more cohesive branding for my educational content. How do you push yourself, and/or your students, to experiment? #smallbusinessowner #womeninbusiness #artbusiness #educationalbusiness #branding #
View fullsize Incredible sunset near Fort Tilden. Another reason why I love my city. #nycsunset #forttilden #sunset
View fullsize A favorite by Tishan Hsu. -- Tishan Hsu. "Breath 4." 2021. UV cured inkjet, acrylic, silicone on wood .48 x 62 x 5" #tishanhsu #contemporaryart
View fullsize I love a good book store. Was happy to stumble into Greg's Used Books in Orleans. Found a great acrylic painting book to share with my students. #bookstores #capecod #orleansma #gregsusedbooks
View fullsize *New Blog Post!* Looking for an interesting lecture on Art? Check out my new list of 30 recommendations, all available for free online. Great for artists, students and teachers at all stages of their learning about Art. #onlinelearning #onlinelectur
View fullsize From an old teaching journal: Here, Pre-K artists mounted artworks onto large sheets of sturdy black paper. I made sure to mix up the groups, so that everyone was mounting another artist’s work, instead of their own. This allowed for a beauti
View fullsize Regardless of the age of the artist, creating art is an incredibly personal process. We all have our own sensibilities for content, tools, and methods, and we develop these from a young age. If you think of your own childhood, you may have gravitated
View fullsize Excited to share some new printable artworks, inspired by Giovanni Antonio Bondoni, 16th-Century Italian artist. Check them out on Teachers Pay Teachers, or on my website. Links in bio! #printableart #printables #artforschools #artforsale #abstra
View fullsize A stunning Mondrian. Makes me want to paint an interior still life of my own. #mondrian #pietmondrian #modernart #stilllife
View fullsize A recent work by Enrique Brinkmann. #enriquebrinkmann
View fullsize Playing with some yarn in my studio! I love how expressive string/yarn/twine can be. A nice way to help students generate abstract imagery is to have them drop a string onto paper multiple times and see how it comes out. I actually read in a Duchamp
View fullsize Artists and teachers, make sure you take a break when you need one! Hope you are enjoying a restful summer.
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View fullsize To add to yesterday's post, while you are at the MoMA, be sure to check out Lisa Yuskavage's 'Pink Studio (Rendezvous),' from 2021. There is an unnerving, neverending quality to her room, complicated by a warm, inviting glow that draws you in. If Mat