Through the summer months of 2019, AYLUS Pearland hosted sixteen art classes at the local Michael’s classroom. Classes were held on Sunday and Monday evenings during June and July.
AYLUS members Kate Liu, Janie Chen, Kathy Liang, Irene Liu, Tien Tran, Katherine Zhong, Ella and Sophia Lin participated in the teaching aspect of the project. During each of the classes, these teacher volunteers would educate the students on different styles of art alongside its history. Students learned important fundamentals like values/shading, perspective, and proportion. In addition, they were taught about a variety of famous artists and each of their styles.
In the last half of class students were given the chance to reference draw. They could bring their own reference picture or choose from the provided photos to draw while teachers helped each of them. The main goal was for these students to gain knowledge on how to draw by themselves and different techniques to help them with this process. Therefore, throughout the weeks the teachers worked to give them advice allowing all the students to improve immensely.
Written by Kate Liu