Diane Wallace Art Studio

The goal of all education should be “Developing analytical skills and learning how to think!”

​When a child learns how to concentrate deeply, intensely, and with great commitment on a single focused chosen goal, they are often astonished at the outcome. They discover that they are able to do more than they ever imagined.

​I want my students to learn to problem solve independently, and that means I need to help them learn how to think for themselves, and not just wait for me to do all of the thinking for them. Together we have to break a lot of old habits.

They need to learn how to:

• Set ambitious goals, and trust in their own ability to get there!
• Break difficult problems into components, and figure out the best sequence of steps to proceed:
• Develop their Perceptive Analysis skills to help them See and Think with more subtlety!
• Lose their fear of making mistakes, which are the stepping stones to progress;
• Discover their own preferences, and allow their own personality to be expressed in their art (they do not have to routinely copy a sample image though I will teach them how to copy anything, if that is what they want.
• Recognize problem issues as early as possible.