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Show f f ? f ' A y - . 1 i ' s - - i ) ' h' .-. .; ... " v.. w-fc . . . . 'Hi - X v - WENDY MOORE, an artist, not only says anybody can learn, but she teaches them how. Arvisv Reaches svudenvs how fo see and draw "Anybody and everybody can learn art," stated Wendy Moore, who is an artist ar-tist herself. Not only does she say this, but she teaches you how to "draw things anybody can do with proper instruction." Mrs. Moore has taught children from 10 years old to adults 60 years old. At the present time Mrs. Moore teaches in her home. She has organized a non-profit school in Vernal known as the Vernal Institute of Western Art. "I buy art supplies from warehouses at public school costs so students are able to get any art supplies from me inexpensively," inexpen-sively," Mrs. Moore said. To begin, Mrs. Moore teaches five basic lessons. In three of these classes she teaches them how to see and how to draw. Then they branch off into their individual in-dividual media. Classes are held once a week for about two hours. At that time they are given instruction in-struction and time to practaice. Then they have the whole week to practice and finish their project. "We try to start from the very beginning begin-ning and go to the very end." noted Mrs. Moore. The end includes making frames for their pictures. They also have matting mat-ting for their watercolors. Each project is done in fine art museum quality. "We learn to do it in a proper way from the beginning to the very end," stated Mrs. Moore. They ,f " r w ' v i J; ; V if v ' . . . -Tjfiqr ' f "'" WENDY MOORE shows one of her paintings. learn about composition, matting a picture pic-ture properly, proper color, sealing the back properly, and how to make their own frames. "I think my students have learned quite a bit," commented Mrs. Moore. "I feel we don't have enough time. It seems like the five basic lessons aren't enough." When asked how she got started, Mrs. Moore said one thing led to another. She explained she would like to make it her whole career but there isn't any money in it. Mrs. Moore said she has 'always played around in art since a kid'. In the fourth grade she drew a picture of her class and the students. In this she included a lot of detail. She turned it in to her teacher who at the time she didn't know was an artist. ar-tist. This picture was published in the newspaper. This was her first memorable experience she had with art. In elementary and high school she didn't have any art classes. What she did during that time was on her own. She said she got frustrated because her pieces wouldn't work. In college she took an art class and did very well. Her teachers suggested she major in art. She told them this was the first instruction she had received. They were very surprised. Mrs. Moore changed her major to art and began studying it. The frustration she had felt disappeared because she understood how to do what she wanted to do. Seeing and drawing became almost second nature to her. The second class Mrs. Moore took was watercolors. She said it is very spontaneous. spon-taneous. "Waters can be really fresh looking. You can paint it in a day," ex- plained Mrs. Moore. She also explained "I want to work with it (her projects) until un-til it is done." She said oils have to be done in stages whereas waters don't. Acrylics can be done as if they are water-colors water-colors or oils. When asked how she got into teaching, Mrs. Moore responded, "I always loved kids; and I always had this special knack with them. We get along really well. I love art and I thought what better thing to do careerwise." Mrs. Moore wants to teach art in schools. She is also planning to get her minor in math so she will be able to teach both math and art. Mrs. Moore has her secondary teaching certificate for the states of Utah and Colorado. Mrs. Moore said she tries to teach her students different techniques. She also has them invent some of their own combinations. "I really stress creativity," slated Mrs. Moore. She tries to get her students to put their ideas on paper and not her ideas. "I give them some subject matters and they come up with their own type," explained ex-plained Mrs. Moore. An example of this she gave is with trees. She tells them to do a tree but leaves it up to them what kind and how they see it. Mrs. Moore said she "loves to experiment experi-ment and tries to get her students to be creative. "A true artist promotes feelings and emotion in their paintings," explained Mrs. Moore. "It. doesn't have to be beautiful. As long as it brings out feelings, it is a good piece of art." An artist can't just draw a picture or paint a painting about a subject. A lot of research goes into it. This is where it ties into math, science, and history, for example, ex-ample, explained Mrs. Moore. The concept, study and research is what takes the time. The actual painting doesn't take the time, said Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Moore does oil, pastels, acrylics, Continued on page 10 Artist... Continued from page 9 drawings, pencil sketching, embossing, as well as ceramics, plaster paris, leather tooling, lithographs, sculptures, clay sculptures, and she used to do intagilo. Mrs. Moore said it gives her an ex-hilerating ex-hilerating feeling when she paints. "I lose track of time. It's like being in another world. I enjoy it so much that before I know it, it is dark." |