If you don’t know me… I am an art teacher. I teach k-12 art in Alaska and I teach an illustration class for Calarts. I tend to draw with my students. The power was out in the village I live so I was working out of my k-12 class room. Usually I’m on my tablet, but I decided to used paper, crayon and tempera paint. It felt so good to use physical media for doing these studies. Big ups to the model Shadia. Every semester we have a different topic we cover, in the past we have done high fantasy, cyberpunk…currently we are on pirates. So partly this means looking at historical examples, eg the golden age of piracy or Zheng Yi Sao. Or the late 1990’s early 2000’s file sharing internet pirates/hackers. Or contemporary issues of pirates like Somalis. And then still farther what about fantasy or cartoon versions like One Piece. I have no problem talking about anime or manga in my classes as was my elders bias against that culture. I still hear of art teachers that bash anime or manga. But doing so from a place of ignorace of the beauty of those art forms.

Anyways, I think while I will be very on brand NEMOS content for most of my posting. I will use this channel to blog about art or life or whatever I want to. Keep making art kids. - Papa Sweets