Congrats! Winners of National Wind Art!The National Wind Energy Art Contest is open to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Submissions are due by March 22, 2024. Winners will receive $200 and a chance to showcase their work at the annual CLEANPOWER 2024 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 5–8, 2024. I encouraged my students to participate in this competition. More than anything, I hope that students will love and protect nature through art and realize the secrets of its beautiful nature. And this is also why I truly pursue art and paint. In this sense, I am proud that three of my students were selected for this year's National Wind Art Contest. I am deeply grateful to Iris, Elbert, and Oscar for reminding us of the beautiful wind in this competition. As they prepare for this competition, I am well aware of the beautiful stories they have told me as they express their invisible desires. It was truly an amazing experience.
I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to the students who prepared together even though they did not receive the award. As we take on challenges together through art contest, I discover that this opportunities are not a place of competition, but a place of chance to upgrade one's skills and discover the ability to live together with the community and people around us. And before I know it, I find that my students are enjoying the challenges themselves rather than focusing on winning or losing through numerous challenges. This is also a very valuable experience. And our challenges will continue in the future. I hope that students will be given many opportunities and competitions to take on these challenges. Through these competitions, my students and I are able to get out of the narrow studio room and turn our gaze to the wider world, broaden our horizons, and focus our attention on creating a world where we can live happily together. In particular, competitions focus on environmental issues, nature conservation, It is very beneficial to students educationally and artistically because it deals with various issues such as social problems, race and culture. Above all, I am deeply grateful to the people and institutions that gave us and my students this opportunity.
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Growing picture!When you teach children, at some point you will see them understand the principle and jump. At times like these, I feel the greatest joy and reward as a teacher. Recently, the following students among my students began drawing with a perfect understanding of perspective and composition. Based on this understanding, we can find that their paintings become more three-dimensional and richer. When children draw for the first time, they enjoy drawing as they freely spread their imaginations. But as children get older, they want to expand their drawings more. Children with these concerns often ask questions, worry, compare themselves to other children, and have a desire to draw better. When my students have this mindset, I begin explaining the drawing skills in detail. And through this process, we find that students rapidly improve their drawing skills, enrich their statements, and gain confidence and assurance through drawing. And when they reach this point, their picture is sure to change. You will gain an understanding of space and objects, and you will be able to understand your flat paper in a more three-dimensional way. You can draw a picture and write a statement that fits the topic. They also shine light on their paintings and imagines objects changing depending on the light. I help kids get to this level. And this level coincides with the point at which I first began to understand painting. When I reached this point, I was able to go deeper into the world of painting. But if you don't know this point, you have no choice but to copy and draw forever. That's really unfortunate.
Because the white space before my eyes is the only world I can create. There, it creates light, makes wind blow, illuminates objects brilliantly, and creates shadows. Sometimes the paper itself informs me, the artist, of certain objects and images. I draw with great wonder, as if the paper were a living creature. If you know this joy, you won't be able to bear it without drawing every day. And when my students discover the world they are creating on paper, they soon realize that art class is not just play time. Instead of chatting and playing and not drawing, they can play in the drawing. I love seeing these changes. Beautiful Wind Energy Art by StudentsThese are the works of students who drew pictures titled Beautiful Wind Art. Each person drew a picture using watercolor, mixed media, crayon, and colored pencils.
Above all, the wind is invisible to the eye. Works that show the beauty and gratitude of this invisible world help students understand the concept of the essence of art. Artists are people who capture and draw the invisible beauty or essence of objects, so contemplating and observing this essence is an essential virtue and ability that artists must possess. In this sense, I ask my students to think, observe, and imagine the essence and beauty of invisible objects from their own perspective. If these efforts are continued, not only artists but also everyone who do not need to draw will be able to catch, appreciate, and love the beauty hidden in small objects around them. Congratulations at the Suffolk level of 2023-2024 reflection program!Congratulations to student, Miro for winning at the Suffolk level of this year's Reflections program. National PTA has a long-standing commitment to arts education. The Reflections program provides opportunities for recognition and access to the arts which boost student confidence and success in the arts and in life. The Reflections Program is a National PTA and New York State PTA cultural arts competition that gives students confidence in their abilities to explore ideas and learn through the arts! Each year hundreds of thousands of students in preschool through grade 12 create and submit original works in the areas of dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts. Students participate in the Reflections program in the division for their grade: primary (pre-K to grade 2), intermediate (grades 3-5), middle school (grades 6-8), high school (grades 9-12) and special artist (all grades welcome). Below is the theme for the 2023 contest.
Practice and effort make perfect. When you think about common sense, bumblebees are bees that cannot fly because their wings are too small compared to their bodies. Aerodynamically, the wings must create a reaction force that lifts the body through repeated movements in the air. And when calculated physically, the wings must be wide enough in proportion to the body. However, this bumblebee defies common sense and flies well. The reason they are able to overcome their physical limitations and fly is simple. They fly because they need to fly to survive. They must fly because they are bees, and they fly because they know who they are. This firm will and belief in self-identity and self-direction is what makes bumblebees flap their small wings more than 200 times per second. We can see that commonly mentioned conditions, objective standards, judgments, do not tell everything. Likewise, what is essential when drawing is practice and effort rather than talent. Rather than thinking that you are not good at drawing, think that you have to draw and practice like Bumblebee struggling, one day you will reach that level. I am finding this case with my students. At first, my students drew pictures as if they were drawing several paper dolls on white paper in a world without space or depth. The painting had no composition, texture or precise shape. But I saw love and passion for pure and beautiful art in their paintings. And after struggling and practice and effort, I discover that they are turning into wonderful paintings with their own unique colors, compositions, and a dynamic feel. This is truly an amazing change. Every time I discover these changes, I work more diligently in the hope that students will break their limits and flap their wings higher. I strive to provide opportunities to develop and introduce new techniques to further challenge my students. I am well aware that this process is also helping me grow step by step as an artist. Most of all, I love seeing the sparkle in my students' eyes and energy as they learn to draw. When anyone seriously engages with art, they get these sparkling, jewel-like eyes. This is an invisible gift that art gives us.
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