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Teaching Art

I have been creating Art and learning new techniques and styles all my life. I am finally putting it all together as a style...

 

I am an Artist-In-Residence for the 2025-2026 Program year at Imagine Art (imagineart.net) through AmeriCorps, serving this non-profit organization in Austin, Texas.

 

I serve through AmeriCorps part-time position to teach art at Imagine Art, a non-profit that serves clients with physical and intellectual disabilities.

So here I am, now in my second service year as a part-time Artist-in-Residence!

 

In this position I am able to teach client artists with disabilities how to develop eye-hand coordination and learn to manipulate mediums using a variety of techniques on various substrates. Acrylic on Canvas, Watercolors, Pastels, Charcoal, Graphite...you name it, I teach it!

     

I find the best way to teach is by DOING alongside the student artist. 

Working with an artist 1-on-1recently, I choose a teaching technique that allowed the artist to follow by explaining my process while demonstrating it on my own substrate (akin to OJT- On the job training). The client learned very quickly...this style of teaching is very effective! 

 

I teach:

                 Drawing- pencil, pen and ink, colored gel pens, charcoal, pastels, graphite, and anything else we can get our hands on!

                 Painting- Acrylics and Oils- with an emphasis on personal vision and expression. (This means I do not teach photo-realism

                 painting because it is REALLY time-consuming!)

 

If you are interested in Private Lessons, I teach all ages! I come to your location with supplies and leave your place as I found it!

 

Email me for more information (copy/Paste): bangitoutartatx@gmail.com

 

Be blessed and spread love through ART!

 

Ed Arevalo