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4.21.2020

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 10

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A little watercolor demo and the progress painting of a polar bear postcard :) Trying to establish an “art exchange” with other regional s...

Weekend Polar Bear Paintings

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This past weekend I painted polar bear. It made me happy. Enough said. Enjoy!
4.15.2020

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 9

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In this video: A DRAWING CHALLENGE! Watch something. Study it. Spend 10-20 minutes just observing. Afterwards, go back to your paper or ske...

Harts Pass no. 481

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Lucky for us we have a new puppy and a nearly seventeen year old who have lots of positive "keep busy" energy and occasionally ...

Harts Pass no. 480

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It's totally true, logging is like social distancing :) And in this case for a similar purpose. The distance between tree makes it ha...
4.06.2020

Harts Pass no. 479

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Kit Courageous, defender of childhood and bravest wolverine around! Kit last made an appearance in these pages during the Carlton Complex...
4.04.2020

Harts Pass no. 478

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OK, sometimes a hug is all it takes. I mean, a socially distanced hug if necessary at this point -- but a REAL hug if you can get it!

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 8

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A quick intro from Mr. Brooks plus two different DAILY DRAWINGS from the ART IS... prompts #10 "terrified" and #11 "unite...

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 7

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Following up on our value scale with pencil (Episode 6) this video demonstrates creating a range of light-to-dark with a single color. I c...

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 6

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In this episode I do a quick demo of ART IS... prompt no. 4: VALUE STUDIES. This is some very basic practice for shading light to dark. For...
3.26.2020

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 5

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A narrated "live drawing" demo of the first two "Daily Drawing" prompts from ART IS... This one is a little longer, b...

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 4

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In this edition Mr. Brooks shares a few of his first drawings from the ART IS... enrichment packet. He also takes the chance to recreate h...
3.23.2020

B.E.A.R. Episode no. 3

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A quick 5 minute chat about the paper arts packet that was sent out today, and some encouragement to play along! I will hope record my own...

Back in the EXCELLENT Art Room: Episode no. 2

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In the episode I talk a little bit again about the value of making art, music as an inspiration, the fact that we ALL need to be patient w...

Back in the Art Room: Episode no. 1

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As some of you know, last year I started teaching art at my local HS/JRH. In just my second year I am still trying to strike that balance ...
3.18.2020

Harts Pass no. 477

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Wolverines may indeed have a few advantages when it come to social distancing -- they DO smell pretty bad, they DO live in wide open spac...
3.17.2020

Harts Pass no. 476

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Phew, what a difference a week makes... I'm a little late in posting last week's "daylight savings" strip, but in the fa...
2.26.2020

Harts Pass no. 474

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Great movie that "Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." Mr. Rogers would definitely NOT approve of my sarcasm in this strip, but s...
2.25.2020

Harts Pass no. 473

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'Tis the sound bite season! TONS of catchy word play. LOTS of impossible promises. Try to cut through the noise and think about what ...
2.12.2020

Elephant Haiku - 1.31.20

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Catching up on the Elephant Haiku. I'll have a few more posted this weekend.