[miss marmelstein]

Your daughter is getting a great education in the fundamentals of art. That’s what the paint brushes are for. My nephew is in art school as well - he’s employed, also, as a game designer in a startup business in L.A. He’s making more than I ever did at age 18!

[Mad Dawgg]

So far I am semi impressed with one of her teachers. She came home this weekend with a project wherein she has to "join pieces of wood" the idea is to use many different ways and approaches.

She brought home a paper to show us shows some of the things she will be learning. And basically she will be learning the basics of cabinet making. Lap joints and Mortise and tenon joints, and Dado joints etc.

Plus all manner of hardware stuff like eye bolts and such. Plus she is to brainstorm a nontraditional way to connect two pieces of wood.

He states in the paper that these skills learned now will serve her down the road in all manner of endeavors.

I like this approach.

She already did a project where she had to take a straight piece of wood and make it curve/bend without using water or heat.