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Here’s something most parents never hear from a teacher:

The best students struggle more than anyone else.

See, for most of my time in classrooms, I was actually an English teacher, not an art teach...

That transition from summer to school can hit hard.

One week it’s ice cream, swimming pools, and lazy mornings—

The next, it’s packed lunches, full schedules, piles of homework, and rising pressure....

As we head into August, you’re either in the height of summer holidays or diving into the back-to-school busyness. Where I live, the school supplies are stacked in store aisles, schedules are filling ...

They frowned at my farting booger monsters

When I was a kid, my sketchbook was filled with goofy creatures.

Farting booger monsters.

Zombies with missing eyeballs.

Scary supervillains with backsto...

“This Looks So Bad.”

At some point, every creative kid gets stuck in the same cycle.

🚨 They erase constantly.

🚨 They rip up their drawings.

🚨 They say, “Ugh, I can’t draw.”

And when they finally ...

If your child seems “over it” when it comes to drawing lately, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve lost interest in art.

In fact, it might mean they’re growing as an artist in ways that are harder to...

I make this mistake with my kids all the time—do you?

Many well-intentioned parents think that if we can just be encouraging enough, our kids will be more confident.

We say “Good job!” or “I love it...

The Easiest Way to Forming Good Habits

I tore my ACL’s in both knees. Full tears. All the way through.

I needed complete reconstructions, and so they scalped off slices of my hamstrings to re-make m...

I could draw my favorite characters from memory. Almost to perfection. I had drawn them hundreds of times.

There was just one problem…

I could only draw them in the same exact pose that I had learne...

Many well-intentioned parents think that if we can just be encouraging enough, that our kids will be more confident.

That if we say enough positive things, then our child will suddenly be more motiva...

Most kids couldn’t care less about traditional art classes.

Few children are mature enough to make the connections themselves between still life or portrait lessons and drawing the characters they lo...

I’ve got a back-to-school gift for your creative child…

A free 30-minute drawing lesson on how to draw the COOLEST superhero in the universe! (or the spiderverse) Hobie Brown, aka Spiderpunk.

In thi...