{"id":1243,"date":"2017-02-10T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:12:23","slug":"beautiful-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/beautiful-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love to teach the masters, as we have so much to learn from them. \u00a0Mike Beeman<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is one of my very favorite contemporary masters. With his impressive\u00a0artistry and economy\u00a0of stroke, he\u00a0helps me so much in my teaching. \u00a0I can use his paintings to help\u00a0students understand how an artist inserts himself into the work by allowing the simplest of marks to matter so much. His work also helps me to teach about how value matters as much or more than color, and how color can be used to cause unexpected excitement in the work. At Christmastime, I rely on Mike’s Santa paintings to show the kids how we need not be so literal in our art, that suggestion and gesture work to bring about awesome beauty and enigma to the work. \u00a0Thanks, Mike! \u00a0Here are a few of Mike’s pieces.<\/p>\n

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This week was a small one, as the blizzard knocked out my Thursday classes, and I lost ten painters to the weather.<\/p>\n

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I love to teach the masters, as we have so much to learn from them.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[18,22,23,19,24,26],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-lessons","category-student-work","tag-art-for-kids","tag-art-lessons","tag-kids-art","tag-pastel-painting","tag-student-work","tag-top-of-the-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1bird-lana.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nyYC-k3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1602,"url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/learning-from-the-masters\/","url_meta":{"origin":1243,"position":0},"title":"Learning from the Masters","author":"heidimayo","date":"June 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We learn a lot\u00a0from the masters. 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