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rxqueen

10-30-2003, 03:39 PM

my art teacher, loughran makes me paranoid... as do three other people in my art class. *coughtravismitchandspencercough* but what really makes me paranoid about loughran is how he always wanders aimlessly about the school in the morning and during his planning period. he seems to have no real determined area in the school outside his classroom/studio. today really got me on edge because i was working on my self portrait (*we're doing black and white portraits of ourselves with charcoal pencils... i love charcoal*)... and loughran was walking around the studio looking at everybody's work. i was just working on a shadow underneath my eye when he sort of crouched down at the other side of my table, just opposite of me. he gave a long stare into my work and started talking to me. "You've worked with charcoal before, haven't you, kiddo?" and i said yes. then we got into a discussion of how weird this particular set of charcoal pencils were. then he pointed at a few other people's work and started telling me how badly they were messing up. "i like your work april. its obvious you are one of the privileged few that could draw before you took this class, and by the time i'm through with you..." (*okay, the way he said that was very creepy*) "...you will be even better than you were when i met you two years ago."
its not only the things he says and how he says them that makes me nervous, its how psychotic he actually is... he acts like his class is one big tv show and insists that we start each class off with a round of applause for us "the home viewer". its weird. but fun. mnnnhhhh...

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Lobster Cowboy

10-30-2003, 05:23 PM

relax

he's a high school art teacher, the most worthless form of life on earth. they have to live vicariously through students to quell the pain they feel having no ability to be real artists themselves.

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shawn

10-30-2003, 07:26 PM

Don't worry, it is probably the fact he see's talent in you and see's a chance to make his teaching worthwhile. You have to admit most people take art class for granted and he see's them people as a waste of his time but you may have the talent to make his teaching actually produce and artist. You see science teachers proud because a student works in the field of science, history teachers mold historians, and shop teachers turn students into welders and fine finish carpenters, but how many students have the natural ability to create good art and then follow through with a career in that field. If your unsure then look at what the others in your class do for work and then look at your own and decide if his statement of your ability has merit and don't just call him a weirdo because he acts strange at times and thinks your art is good. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

Isildur

10-30-2003, 08:38 PM

> he's a high school art teacher, the most worthless form of
> life on earth. they have to live vicariously through
> students to quell the pain they feel having no ability to be
> real artists themselves.
>

Spoken like a brat who's still sore he got a bad grade in art class.<img src=smilies/upeyes.gif>

For your information, someone can be both an accomplished artist (as in: have her art feautured in galleries and exhibitions, and earn awards at art shows) and be an art teacher. "Worthless"? My mother is worthy of an enormous amount of respect, both for her skill as an artist and her dedication to teaching, among many other fine qualities.

On the other hand, the amount of respect that I now have for you could easily be overstated.

And before you accuse me of being smug again, take a good look at your own post.

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IceWolf20

10-30-2003, 09:12 PM

> Spoken like a brat who's still sore he got a bad grade in
> art class.

Out of curiosity, why is it that you are required to take art classes to graduate....even if you suck so bad that you're stick figures don't even come out right? I never understood that. Seriously, if you are good at art or are interested in it...cool, take the class. But don't punish people like me for sucking horribly at being artistic. You can only get a C for effort, but you need some skill to get an A...and I didn't appreciate my GPA being sucked down by a required course that there was nothing that I could do to be any better at. I'm not berating art by any manner, but I suck at it, so why should I have to take it...and don't give me that "liberal arts education" bullshit.

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fairykiller

10-30-2003, 09:36 PM

>I'm not berating art by any manner, but I
> suck at it, so why should I have to take it...and don't give
> me that "liberal arts education" bullshit.

You could use that argument for pretty much anything - if you're a great artist and you want to paint for the rest of your life, why in the world should you have to do math/physics/chemistry to graduate? Or history? I don't know.

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Lobster Cowboy

10-31-2003, 01:32 AM

figures one of you would have a parent as an art teacher.

my grades in art were excellent, by the way.

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Reaper man

11-01-2003, 08:51 PM

> > Spoken like a brat who's still sore he got a bad grade in
> > art class.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is it that you are required to take
> art classes to graduate....even if you suck so bad that
> you're stick figures don't even come out right?

hooray for GED! <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

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MooglyGuy

11-01-2003, 09:20 PM

Dude, not cool. Playing off of what Isildur said -

My elementary school teacher, http://www.asklar.com/index.htmlThomas Asklar</a> is quite a painter. Seriously, take a look at some of the stuff on his site. He's been featured at some point in pretty much every local art gallery in the Buffalo, NY area. He taught not because it paid well, but because he enjoyed teaching.

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MooglyGuy

11-01-2003, 09:21 PM

> hooray for GED!

Hooray for being too stupid to actually complete high school like a normal person!

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Lobster Cowboy

11-02-2003, 02:08 AM

i realize this is going to sound mean, but this guy couldn't paint his way out of a wet paper bag.

i can smell the room service on those paintings. had i handed anything like that while i was still in school, i would've flunked out

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Reaper man

11-03-2003, 01:22 AM

> > hooray for GED!
>
> Hooray for being too stupid to actually complete high school
> like a normal person!

I would have finished normally if I wasn't picked on and rejected so much <img src=smilies/cry.gif>

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JadussD

11-03-2003, 01:28 AM

> Hooray for being too stupid to actually complete high school
> like a normal person!
>

Hooray for conformity!<img src=smilies/flipa.gif>

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JadussD

11-03-2003, 01:37 AM

> I would have finished normally if I wasn't picked on and
> rejected so much

Hooray for languishing in weakness and blissful ignorance of surroundings! Allow others to bring you down, and then beg for sympathy!

Anyone that feels sorry for you is wasting their time.

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Dark Macc

11-03-2003, 02:46 AM

> i realize this is going to sound mean, but this guy couldn't
> paint his way out of a wet paper bag.
> i can smell the room service on those paintings. had i
> handed anything like that while i was still in school, i
> would've flunked out

Is that all you do now? Troll these boards looking for an argument?

MooglyGuy

11-03-2003, 04:00 AM

> I would have finished normally if I wasn't picked on and
> rejected so much

Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. I was ridiculed by almost every single person in my school from grade five onward, but instead of being a pussy about it I actually dealt with it and completed high school.

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Reaper man

11-03-2003, 04:02 AM

> Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. I was ridiculed by almost every single
> person in my school from grade five onward, but instead of
> being a pussy about it I actually dealt with it and
> completed high school.

*shrug* It wasn't my idea

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