Jason M. age 12
My idea with this is let each of meet my students. I will do this one at a time as they come into my class room. It is my hope that maybe you can use this Idea to teach other kids about model building, or look back to what you did with your models as a kid.
I teach out of my house. I have been teaching Visual Arts for over 15 years. I have been an artist for over forty years.
I have worked with Jason for about 3 years. He lives in Ohio country on a farm with his mom and dad. He has two younger brothers. Over the past year Jason has found auto racing he loves Nascar. To date he has done seven models. He started building legos at the age of seven. I started him with a Gundam. On that model we inked panel lines and did a nice wash. You can see his Gundam on my website.
Jason has built one race car #24. Last fall he entered the model, drawings and a scratch built Lego in an art show . For his age group he won BEST OF SHOW! He is working on one other car now. He would like to build some planes and tanks.
I just showed him this months FSM mag. He just smiled from ear to ear. What a site! I need to explain some things to him now, so I will have to keep this short. I will add more at a later date.
Three years ago I would have never thought of having my art students work on models. Now I know that it will work and that each student will learn more about Art and life from building models, then just knowing how to draw. WOW!
Dale