ART TEACHER ALSO LEARNS IN CLASSROOM KNOWLES EXHIBITING RESULTS.Byline: Peggy Peggy may refer to:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - Landscape painter Glen Knowles Knowles is a surname, and may refer to many people. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
``For me, teaching and painting are very complementary,'' said Knowles, an AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C art instructor for 21 years. ``I get excited about painting out of doors and sharing my enthusiasm for painting with my students, and the questions they ask and their enthusiasm and helping them learn and make discoveries causes me to make discoveries.'' He added: ``The old saying that teachers learn the most of anyone in the classroom is certainly true.'' Knowles is showing his works in an exhibit, ``Landscapes and Victorian Art,'' which will continue through Dec. 23 in the Palmdale Playhouse gallery. An open reception will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at the theater, 38334 10th St. E.. Watercolor paintings watercolor painting, in its wider sense, refers to all pigments mixed with water rather than with oil and also to the paintings produced by this process; it includes fresco and tempera as well as aquarelle, the process now commonly meant by the generic term. make up the bulk of his exhibit at the theater, but he also works in oils, on which he had concentrated in his early career. `When I first got out of college, I was doing mostly oil paintings and made my living, a modest living, as an oil painter. ... Upon moving to the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , I really became excited about and pursued watercolor painting, ... and in these last three years I've really been doing oil paintings again,'' explained Knowles. Knowles, graduated from college in 1975, has been an art teacher at Antelope Valley College for the last 21 years. Many of his students have gone on to become art teachers and career artists. ``I think painting is about learning, and it's a process. It's not a matter of doing it right or wrong but a matter of learning step by step, and if you have the spirit to carry on and keep doing it, you'll learn how to do it. It's not a skill that's exclusive to certain people and other people couldn't learn it,'' said Knowles. ``I think some of the mystery that people like to adorn painting with is not well founded. It's a skill. Like many things it can be learned.'' The playhouse gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays. Admission is free. For more information call (661) 267-5684. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Artist Glen Knowles delivers work for his painting exhibit, ``Landscapes and Victorian Art,'' that is under way at the Palmdale Playhouse gallery, 38334 10th St. E. (2 -- color) Glen Knowles, an art teacher and painter, hangs one of his works for the holiday season exhibit at the Palmdale Playhouse gallery. A reception is scheduled for Dec. 19. Gene Blevins/Staff Photographer |
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