MrsMeadows1's Comments (33)

this is a cool picture.it has alot of colors,and it looks like.dakota688

this is a awsome picture.It has alot of colors

Wow! This is my kind of detailed pencil drawing! Too abd that glare is in the way! Well, just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how I'm doing and everything. Wish I had your e-mail though. Mine is malmaltexmex@hotmail.com So if you want to start e-mailing each other....I also wanted to tell you thanks for all the support and teaching. To me, the support was more important than the teaching. To know that you had faith in me and tha art that I did was very comforting. Without that, I think I wouldn't have the confidence and desire to keep drawing. Thank you so much!
-- from Mallory

Yes, that is my hand I drew as a mouse pad...
-- from Mrs. M.

For Mother's day our HS class did cardboard, 3-D forms and then decorated with metal wire, baked clay beads of our design, and tissue or whatever else we wanted to use. Many had detailed tooling which is hard to see on the small photographs.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

When I went to Germany I saw many decoratively designed eggs in their own folk style. These are not done in the traditional melted wax technique, though.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

My mother asked me to design at least one egg each Easter for her collection in her crystal cabinet. I think that was a pretty cheap way to pay back a chance to go to college! I miss her but still paint my eggs.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Our Paper Mache masks were about 4 layers / days of newspaper strips dipped in glue/flour/water/solution over a shaped, waded newspaper foundation. After the top coats were hard/dry, we cut out the inside wadding, taped the edging, did another coat, dried it, painted it, and called it done.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

This is a sighted Contour Drawing, where you do not lift your pencil, but you continue looking back and forth at your model and your paper. No erasing allowed.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Catherine, I consider you a rebel with reason.... because you stand up for what you feel is common sense and right. I am so impressed with how generous you are... I'm glad I got to have you in class.
-- from Mrs. M.

Dear LeTisha, Thanks for your comments! I would love to photograph some of your work and put on the website also. I have had 3 other past students who have brought their work by (give me notice to make sure I have my digital with me so you could take your work home immediately) so I can photograph them. Since you were in the top 5 percent of the best students I've had in 24 years of teaching, I'd love to have you represented, too! Good to hear from you. See my email address on the school website and write some time!
-- from love, Mrs. M.

Mrs. Meadows- This is such an awesome way for your students to be recognized for their hard work! Your artwork is beautiful...as always! You were such a wonderful teacher and so inspiring! God bless you and your class!
-- from Letisha Allen (Sr. '94)

THis is baking clay, painted with acrylic wash, about 6 inches long...
Our class learned about millifori bead making and sculpting small, tiny detail, although this is not an example of that.
-- from Mrs. M.

....the thumb was larger than life size and was painted with an acrylic wash to appear bruised. On clay day I wore it on my thumb with long sleeves to cover the opening, and horrified many of my students!
-- from your art teacher

I love the amount of knowledge your students get from taking your course. They really take more than just technique! Jackson Pollock is one of my favorites because the longer he painted, the more he paintings resembled a perfect fractal. The more they resembled a perfect fractal, the more people liked them. Fractals are mathematical patterns found ALL OVER nature and we're attracted to them. He didn't know he was doing it of course -- Artists just see things. I had a professor who said, "Artists often 'know' something long before the scientists ever 'prove' it." I've really enjoyed your portfolio and it makes me want to pick up my canvas again. I painted the church office's ceiling last night... does that count?
-- from Aprill Ann

You forgot to take the single leaf that I showed you in Big Bend. I'd be interested in seeing what you could do with that. This is very good. I have a special interest. lol
-- from Jim

Gail, I've known you for several years now, but have never seen any of your artwork. I've been deprived. Your entire portfolio is awesome. If I HAD to choose, "Backyard Retreat" would be my favorite. Yet they're all so interesting. I also love "Oil & Pastel on Sheetrock" & "Seafoam Acrylic". What a great talent you have!
-- from Karen Stroman

Mrs. Meadows, I checked out your page. Congratulations! I am impressed. Janet Broussard
-- from Janet Broussard

I love this one. Have not seen it (hmmm?) You very good. Have not figured out how to get to the biography or the picture.
-- from Jim

I love this one. Have not seen it (hmmm?) You very good.
-- from Jim

Neat....Is there a website I can find templates for the boxes you assembled?
-- from Your Art Teacher Friend

Scherenshnitte means German Paper Cutting... usually in silhouette form.... In Civil War times spys used it as coded messages... This example is just a plain ol' snowflake fold. I did encourage students to unfold, then refold to cut from another direction.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

While this is not a great example, I still demonstrated that you can use a subtractive method in inking the printmaking plate. I used my thumbs, fingernails, etc. to remove differing amounts of ink before pulling a print.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

This is a strip of cardboard with pin pricked design.... Easy, cheap, fairly fast stocking stuffer, which is what we did with this assignment.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Students, to have a unified picture it is always good to repeat colors in other areas of the picture frame. For example, I have Kendall's yellow hair repeated in spots of yellow in the background, plus in the white stripes of the flag. I have teal background, so i have a bit of teal in the flag and on the face. The rose of the t-shirt are repeated in her cheeks, the red of the flag is laid into the hair. This is more of an impressionistic style of art.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Subject Matter was my mother and daughter in the garden. I did this at Savannah College of Art and Design. It is an oil base coat with pastel pencils on top as it dried.... The feel is monochromatic (students, what does that mean?), but there are hidden bits of color here and there
-- from Mrs. Meadows

For our underpainting I had students choose a limited palette and slightly blend them together.... then we chose bright, contrasting colors in squeeze bottles with small tips.... to be able to "draw" or splatter... We studied Jackson Pollock during this time. He was known for drip and splatter paintings the size of walls.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

This was a styrofoam plate. I had students cut off the edges and draw the image with sharpened pencil. It is a cheap way to do a nice, clean image in printmaking. Try it at home if you have some paint. If you dont' have a roller you can get a small amount of ink on a rag and rub it across the plate.. (dont' want ink in the grooves).
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Subtleties are achieved through much experimentation... This was one example I showed so students would not be satisfied with the first print they pulled.... I wanted them to know how many values of grey they could get by re-inking some of the stencils, cutting new ones, reusing some without re-inking, etc. The kids did a fantastic job on this one, but they took them home before I discovered this artsonia forum.
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Example for class of printing leaves from our nature walk which we earlier used in shaded drawings/studies. Might as well recycle! Styrofoam plate was inked, leaves put down, then another print was pulled with some leaves flipped over, some re-inked, to bring together several values...
-- from Mrs. Meadows

Layering transparent colors is what this example was done to show.... Opaque colors are not allowed with watercolor in my class...
-- from Mrs. Meadows

This is an oil painting of the Adirondak chairs in my back yard....
-- from Mrs. Meadows

I think that your work is very good. I think I would like to see more.
-- from Your Literary Friend