CANDY ANDERSON, L.S. ART TEACHER
Miz Candy teaches that Art is a way of seeing, and that artists see things differently than other people because they know how to use what she calls their "art eyes." She believes that in addition to our normal eyes, which give us the faculty of sight, everyone has an invisible pair of eyes that uses another kind of vision. Using the vision of "art eyes" enables one to look at things and see them another way. She teaches, for instance, that artists have a different attitude about mistakes. They rarely worry about making goof-ups. Instead they make discoveries, and have opportunities to make changes all the time! When artists draw, there’s no such thing as good or bad lines, the right or wrong kind of shapes, only different ones. Art is about noticing how things look with both your normal vision and your artistic vision. The big difference between these two kinds of vision is that when you use normal vision, you see what really is. When you use your "art eyes", you see what could be, and the possibilities are endless!