<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:13:25.358-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let My Inspiration Flow</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-4578552062497106852</id><published>2007-12-10T21:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T22:10:41.778-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Remembrance &amp; All</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Remembrance &amp;amp; All&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation9/pic1.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 299px; height: 390px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation9/Pic2.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation9/pic3.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-4578552062497106852?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/4578552062497106852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=4578552062497106852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4578552062497106852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4578552062497106852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/remembrance-all.html' title='Remembrance &amp; All'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation9/th_pic1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-4954620156716794339</id><published>2007-12-10T14:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T16:12:00.351-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Golden Age of Conversation</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Golden Age of Conversation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/8a.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 300px; height: 384px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/8b.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 301px; height: 386px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/8d.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/8e.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/8f.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-4954620156716794339?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/4954620156716794339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=4954620156716794339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4954620156716794339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4954620156716794339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/golden-age-of-conversation.html' title='Golden Age of Conversation'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation8/th_8a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-2972709957217988555</id><published>2007-12-10T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:45:04.139-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Rhythmic Input</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Rhythmic Input&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation7/7a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation7/7b.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation7/7c.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-2972709957217988555?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/2972709957217988555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=2972709957217988555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2972709957217988555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2972709957217988555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/rhythmic-input.html' title='Rhythmic Input'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation7/th_7a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-9014697018174474629</id><published>2007-12-10T14:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:42:37.952-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Stability in Flexibility</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Stability in Flexibility&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation6/6a.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 303px; height: 231px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation6/6b.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation6/6c.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation6/6d.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-9014697018174474629?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/9014697018174474629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=9014697018174474629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/9014697018174474629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/9014697018174474629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/stability-in-flexibility.html' title='Stability in Flexibility'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation6/th_6a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-460353815038131835</id><published>2007-12-10T14:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:26:34.891-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Stellar Results</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Stellar Results&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 299px; height: 383px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/5a.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 300px; height: 389px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/5b.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/5c.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/5d.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/5e.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-460353815038131835?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/460353815038131835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=460353815038131835' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/460353815038131835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/460353815038131835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/stellar-results.html' title='Stellar Results'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation5/th_5a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-6295799872041708216</id><published>2007-12-10T14:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:19:47.585-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In Agreement</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--In Agreement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation4/4a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation4/4b.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation4/4c.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation4/4d.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-6295799872041708216?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/6295799872041708216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=6295799872041708216' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/6295799872041708216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/6295799872041708216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/in-agreement.html' title='In Agreement'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation4/th_4a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-4201787096286150092</id><published>2007-12-10T14:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:15:59.405-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shed Some Light</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Shed Some Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation3/3a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation3/3b.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-4201787096286150092?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/4201787096286150092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=4201787096286150092' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4201787096286150092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4201787096286150092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/shed-some-light.html' title='Shed Some Light'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation3/th_3a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-1976901814178300678</id><published>2007-12-10T14:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:12:54.839-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Visual Roots</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Visual Roots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation2/2a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation2/2b.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation2/pic3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-1976901814178300678?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/1976901814178300678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=1976901814178300678' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/1976901814178300678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/1976901814178300678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/visual-roots.html' title='Visual Roots'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation2/th_2a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-3299875750485460905</id><published>2007-12-10T13:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T14:04:42.137-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Improvisation</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Improvisation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for visiting!  Please enjoy viewing the recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 10, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 295px; height: 380px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation1/1c.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation1/1b.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation1/1a.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-3299875750485460905?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/3299875750485460905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=3299875750485460905' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/3299875750485460905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/3299875750485460905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/12/improvisation.html' title='Improvisation'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/07Conversation1/th_1c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-4569807280942839212</id><published>2007-01-07T22:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T20:27:11.272-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fortunes Untold</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Fortunes Untold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting this site to unite several&lt;br /&gt;strands of artistic thought, culminating in recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=2839&amp;amp;AKey=FGWAF5RY"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, January 07, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/5g.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-4569807280942839212?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/4569807280942839212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=4569807280942839212' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4569807280942839212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/4569807280942839212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/01/fortunes-untold.html' title='Fortunes Untold'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation5/th_5a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-2485917577834290065</id><published>2007-01-07T22:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T20:40:49.434-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Awaiting Reply</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Awaiting Reply&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting this site to unite several&lt;br /&gt;strands of artistic thought, culminating in recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=2839&amp;amp;AKey=FGWAF5RY"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, January 07, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4g.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4h-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4h-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/2i.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/4i.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-2485917577834290065?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/2485917577834290065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=2485917577834290065' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2485917577834290065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2485917577834290065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/01/awaiting-reply.html' title='Awaiting Reply'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%204/th_4a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-2715546872404906810</id><published>2007-01-06T15:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T20:49:05.715-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Quantum Mechanics</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Quantum Mechanics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting this site to unite several&lt;br /&gt;strands of artistic thought, culminating in recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=2839&amp;amp;AKey=FGWAF5RY"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, January 06, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/3f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-2715546872404906810?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/2715546872404906810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=2715546872404906810' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2715546872404906810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/2715546872404906810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/01/quantum-mechanics.html' title='Quantum Mechanics'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%203/th_3a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-6741570975801673394</id><published>2007-01-06T12:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T20:39:19.762-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Rhythm Is</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Rhythm Is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting this site to unite several&lt;br /&gt;strands of artistic thought, culminating in recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=2839&amp;amp;AKey=FGWAF5RY"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, January 06, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/small1a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/small1a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/1f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-6741570975801673394?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/6741570975801673394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=6741570975801673394' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/6741570975801673394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/6741570975801673394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/01/rhythm-is.html' title='Rhythm Is'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation1/th_small1a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7828406069228564165.post-829012645130810213</id><published>2007-01-06T00:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T20:50:42.983-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Linear Harmony</title><content type='html'>Let My Inspiration Flow--Linear Harmony&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting this site to unite several&lt;br /&gt;strands of artistic thought, culminating in recent&lt;br /&gt;artwork by MCS students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an art educator at &lt;a href="http://mcsxserve.mcs.csd10.k12.me.us/webactive/"&gt;Maranacook Community High School&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;I often have the luck and opportunity to share with&lt;br /&gt;my students some of the interesting real world techniques&lt;br /&gt;of my contemporaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Wadsworth and Marni Lawson, two gifted artists&lt;br /&gt;and innovative educators, have shared with me the Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the evolution of the technique at: &lt;a href="http://www.gulfislandart.com/"&gt;www.gulfislandart.com &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=2839&amp;amp;AKey=FGWAF5RY"&gt;www.marnilawsonwatercolors.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, January 06, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Image 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Image 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Image 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2e.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/2f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These works are about getting the artist to interact&lt;br /&gt;with the medium in a way that expresses his/her own&lt;br /&gt;understanding of the source work. In this process,&lt;br /&gt;the work chosen is responded to visually and serves&lt;br /&gt;to clarify each artist's own unique understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process each student used to gather a sense of the&lt;br /&gt;work was interactive.  First, pieces were placed upside&lt;br /&gt;down for students to choose from randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work began without discussion to ensure for each&lt;br /&gt;participant's careful interpretation and personal&lt;br /&gt;artistic expression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students were also reminded that there are no "right&lt;br /&gt;answers" in this type of process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses from student artists in the following Visual&lt;br /&gt;Conversations (tm) method were created spontaneously&lt;br /&gt;with inspiration, watercolor paints, and white sulphite&lt;br /&gt;drawing paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl Oakes, a technology teacher from Wells, Maine&lt;br /&gt;used Visual Conversations (tm) in her elementary school&lt;br /&gt;technology curriculum and was awarded Technology Teacher&lt;br /&gt;of the Year for the State of Maine in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the article at the Maine Arts Commission Website&lt;br /&gt;link below :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Visual Conversations (tm): &lt;a href="http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=1817&amp;amp;name=Marni%20Lawson"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7828406069228564165-829012645130810213?l=letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/feeds/829012645130810213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7828406069228564165&amp;postID=829012645130810213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/829012645130810213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7828406069228564165/posts/default/829012645130810213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://letmyinspirationflow.blogspot.com/2007/01/let-my-inspiration-flow-i-am-starting.html' title='Linear Harmony'/><author><name>Jeremy Smith</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09897984016962183098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/JustJeremyid2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/inspirationflow/Conversation%202/th_2a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
