Jane Ostler, Drawing

JANE OSTLER DRAWING ILLUSTRATION PAINTING PORTRAITS EXHIBITIONS WORKSHOPS BIOGRAPHY CONTACT ART REPORT COLLABORATION GRAPHICS EARLY PAINTINGS HORIZONS 3D ROMANTIC STRANGE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES LEVEL BEST ART TEACHING SITEMAP	TEACHING - FACILITATING - DRAWING: Old Masters
	While I was working at Level Best, a favorite Monday afternoon activity was sharing my joy in Old Master paintings. Working our way through Thames and Hudsons' "From Giotto to Cezanne : A Concise History of Painting by Michael Levey", one trainee would choose an image, and I would enlarge and copy it for them to paint. They would follow my instructions by colour matiching, paint mixing, and then filling in the appropriate areas in these giant deluxe colouring in sheets, with energetic brush strokes. I found the whole process very enjoyable and I think the trainee did too. By copying together we built communication skills, while looking at how it was done long ago and contemplating the classical themes. See The Sunshine Coast: Level Best Art at firsite

	Europa




	St Anthony




	After Manet
















	A lot of my teaching has really been 'facilitating'. This means getting inside the needs and wishes of your student, and helping them to do what theychoose to do, (not what you think they should do). Facilitating someone with special needs is not always as easy as it sounds. When facilitating adults you are there to support and be their physical and emotional prop and cheer leader. They are adults afterall. Occasionally, very occasionally, you get to do something that helps them, by showing by example: by making your own drawing or demonstrating a process, like paper making, or just sitting down and making a drawing.


	From life on hotest day of the year (96 degrees).




	Rice drawing with primary school pupils.




	From life at the Level Best Cafe, d'Arcy House, Culver St. East.




	From life in the Curzon Cinema 1st floor lounge (overlooking firstsite).




	From life. Coffee and drawing in firstsite cafe.