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-: Hi, I'm Carina del Rosario.

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My students call me Miss Carina.

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Usually I'd be in the classroom teaching art,

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or in a museum doing some art activities there.

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But today I'm coming to you from a studio

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so you can still make art wherever you are.

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How are you feeling?

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I have been fidgety lately, very restless.

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And sometimes when I'm feeling that way,

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I like to make some quick drawings.

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It helps me get some energy out,

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it helps me focus on what's right in front of me

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instead of having my mind

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go buzzing around all over the place.

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So one of the artists who gave me inspiration

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for using that technique is Romare Bearden.

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Romare Bearden is one of my favorite artists.

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He was born in 1911, and he lived, at first,

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in North Carolina with his family,

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his great grandparents, his grandparents and his parents.

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But when he was a young person,

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I think like three years old,

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his parents wanted to leave the racism

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that was in North Carolina during that time

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and seek out opportunities for themselves in New York City.

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So he moved there and grew up there

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and continue to live there

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in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City,

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and he would go sketching around his neighborhood.

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He would sketch the block that he lived on,

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the buildings there.

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He would sketch musicians who were performing

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at different nightclubs during the Harlem Renaissance there.

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So he would just always sketch.

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So that's what we're gonna do today.

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We're going to just do some quick sketches,

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focusing on lines and shapes.

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What you'll need is either a notebook, or a piece of paper

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and just a pen or a pencil.

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I'm using a notebook that's a little bit darker pages

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cause it's a little easier for the camera to see

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rather than a white page.

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So the picture that I chose is

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of a Chief Sealth Trail near my house in Beacon Hill.

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And in this picture, you can see

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that there's some grassy parts,

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there's a winding path and these electrical towers.

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So again, I'm just gonna use my pen on my paper.

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I'm gonna use this big one

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just so it's a little bit easier to see.

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And I'm just gonna focus on lines and shapes.

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So I see some quick electrical towers here

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and then there's some lines going this way.

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I'm not gonna worry about getting it to exact.

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It's like visual note taking.

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So sometimes if you're taking notes,

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you might not be capturing every single word,

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and that's the same idea here.

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You don't have to capture every single detail.

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(pen scribbling)

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I'm switching pens cause some

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of them are a little bit drier than others.

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So here's the grassy part,

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and then over here is, I'm doing a curved line

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to capture the path.

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I see a square and a triangle for a house,

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another triangle cause I'm just seeing the top of a house.

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Okay, so I'm just using shapes.

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I'm not worrying too much about the details.

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Looks like I have some trees over there.

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(pen scribbling)

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Okay, so it's just a very rough sketch.

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So I keep a bunch of those sketches in my notebook

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just so that I can look at them for ideas

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for other art projects.

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Now, like I said, Mr. Bearden liked to think back

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to other important places in his life.

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So he would think about what life was like in North Carolina

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with his great grandparents.

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So sometimes he would just draw off from memory.

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I'm gonna draw off from memory of my grandparents' place.

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I'm gonna just flip the page here.

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I was born in the Philippines and I left when I was six.

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So even though I was only six years old

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when my family moved to the United States,

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I have very vivid memories of my grandparents' place.

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So I'm gonna draw you

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what I remember my grandparents house to look like.

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There was this wall that was right at the sidewalk

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and then it's a low concrete wall

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and then there was a fence

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and it was one of those wire fences or gates.

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So I'm just doing some curved lines.

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And then there was this gate here that would swing open.

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And then over here...

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My grandparents' place was pretty small,

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so I'm just using a rectangle

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and then a smaller rectangle for the door.

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Here's on this side was the living room in Tagalog,

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which is the language that my family speaks,

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it's called the Sala.

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Over here on the side of the house,

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there were some chickens,

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so there were a couple of chicken coops here.

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On this side of the front door was where I would take a nap

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in the afternoon.

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So yeah, what I want you to do is,

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think about some places

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that are important to you in your life.

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It could be where you're sitting right now.

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It could be someplace you've been

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that you either have pictures of

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or you have very specific memories of.

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I want you to use lines and shapes just to draw that,

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draw a few different places that are important to you,

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and then keep it in your notebook.

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Keep it handy because we'll do an art project

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next time with those sketches.

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So I hope you come back and join me.

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Again, my name is Miss Carina,

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and I'm a cultural worker and visual teaching artist

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here in Seattle.

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Thanks for joining me.

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