Tis the season where the temps go low and the energy goes high. More to-do-lists, more weather delays, more sugar, more together time, more, more, more! The energy can just get to be too much. There is a joy to the season for many things,
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This is my favorite new section of my blog to write, as I have great student results to share with you over the years I have been teaching private lessons. Each Student in the Spotlight post will detail a student’s learning and results in the
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We have cause to celebrate! The Tuff Stuff Eraser Stick Is Now Being Manufactured as the Factis BM2 Eraser. Thank goodness, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that our favorite drawing supply will still be available. A couple of years ago, drawing artists
Why take drawing lessons? You used to love drawing. Then something happened: They told you, you couldn’t draw well. You couldn’t figure out how to make it look “right”. They told you, you didn’t have “the eye” for it. When you were young, they said,
Overthinking Could Suffocate Your Drawing Practice Dear Adults: I know we’ve been trained to believe our gray matter is our greatest asset: that our high caliber brain will lead to fame, fortune and the success we aim to achieve. Or at the very least, we
Still looking for holiday presents for your favorite budding artist? These are the essential drawing art supplies I can’t live without! Many of these are on my newly updated Recommended Supplies list, however, some of these are not because they go beyond my basic supplies
I teach a lot of kids how to draw. I am grateful that I am often a part of their extended local “family”. My adult clients often invite me to dinner; my kid clients often suggest I come over on the weekend to watch a
Building Patience: Quality Drawings Take Time Part of my work with my clients is convincing them it is expected, necessary and acceptable to take many hours to create artwork. Quality drawings take time. An artist is nothing without building patience. It is not generally going to be
Another quick post on kids, technology, and drawing. The goal to unplug your kids is important and choosing what they are plugging into is also important! Here is another example of a great kid, Ananda, in a great family, spending time on a computer in
Many of the kids I work with are taking drawing lessons because their parents are hoping to get them into activities that limit their screen time after school. Drawing is tactile; it takes construction skills – even though we are working in two dimensions on
Yesterday I had the honor of exposing one of my students to a subject that deeply inspires him: architecture and perspective drawing. Carter, age 11, started lessons with me earlier this summer. He’s a smart, polite, thoughtful kid, who loves drawing- it has been a
You’re probably not thinking about Christmas right now. But last December someone found my website and asked me to draw a picture of their daughter’s house for a Christmas present. I rushed and got it done in two weeks, in between my regularly scheduled client
A lot of people think that kids can’t draw as well as adults- a misconception that is really not true! Many children are open to learning the same techniques that adults can learn in drawing. The problem? Many kids just don’t have access to an
Hey there, Tomato! It has been toooo loooong since I’ve blogged for y’all. Check back soon, because I’ve got new images of students’ drawings and my artwork, tips about learning to draw, new workshops, COMING SOON online and skype lessons (whoohoo! it has been quite
There is something very personal that I get to share with my students. They willingly open themselves up in front of me – because in order to learn you really have to be vulnerable; mess up; expand yourself; try again when something didn’t work out
Last week, I had some very special guests modeling in the studio for a private lesson: Ellie and Pica! My youngest student, Rio, brought her buddies to her lesson so we could draw while observing them. Drawing from photographs is an ok alternative, but it really helps
Would you ever compare the skill of drawing to the skill of juggling? How about finding a gorilla on a radiology slide? The process of drawing, like juggling, is a”global skill”, which means it “is made up of component skills that become integrated into a
I draw stuff. With pencils. Every day. And I teach lots of kids, teens and adults how to do the same thing, every day. I will be showing how I do this by demonstrating how light falls on basic shapes tomorrow, February 2, 2013 from
Based on my experience working with younger kids over the years, I’m going to assert that learning to draw as a child will impact the cognitive function of one’s brain as an adult. I see the changes happening in my young students. I have the
Yesterday while working with a client, I remembered one of my first art loves. Art love is that moment that your mind is blown, standing in front of, for example, a huge canvas painted by Monet more than one hundred years ago. It is when
Every once in a while, it pays to Google yourself! I was working on my website with my friend Will at a coffee shop over the holidays, and in discussing SEO options, we went about Googling ourselves, to see how effective our websites were. Will Hewett,
Playing hooky this afternoon, instead of working on my business paperwork that I am way behind on… some days this girl just has to draw to work it out… I created a memento for my dear friend (and former college roomy) Tracy, who got married recently to
It is hot, hot, hot here in Austin – not just today- but for oh, the last 2 months. And guess what? We have another 2 months of heat to go before we can dry off, maintain sanity while touching a black leather car interior
Besides drawing, I have a SUPER INCREDIBLE LARGE LOVE of the great apes (orangutans, gorillas, chimps). One of my students, Phoebe A., (a different, but equally fabulous Phoebe than I posted about yesterday!) started taking drawing lessons from me last year because she wants to
This summer I began working with a small private lesson group of 5 year old little ladies. In our first lesson together, I asked them not to use an eraser. This is a pretty challenging request for most 5 year olds, believe it or not!
Welcome to the blog of LZM Studio! You can catch up with me here, where I’ll share fun accomplishments that my student take on, new endeavors that I find myself stumbling into in my studio and in my lessons with folks, and a fair share about