Hello! My name is Bear!

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My classes are easy-going, mics-on spaces where we discuss and practice the process of art making, from fundamentals like line, shape, value and color, to connecting over what we love, what we struggle with, how to persevere through doubt and disappointment in our art making and ultimately learn how to trust the process and develop trust in our intuition. 

I have a fun, energetic, patient, encouraging personality. I believe learning can always be fun and exciting! 

I teach targeted art skills and fundamentals while building a safe social-emotional space where students can explore how to think like an artist, see like an artist and begin to be in the world as an artist!

All my digital illustration courses are guided step-by-step. My comics and animation classes are more club-style where we work on projects independently while hanging out and being social.

I am a self-taught award-winning, exhibiting, working artist. I have a degree in journalism from Temple University and I worked for years in journalism, editing, graphic design and marketing before quitting it all to become a working artist.

As an artist and writer, I have taught elementary, middle school and high school art and creative writing in classes including: drawing, painting, comics, stop motion, character design, and fundamental art principles like line, perspective, color, composition and more. I am a member of the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators and the Art Brand Alliance. You can usually find me writing or working on a picture book dummy, creating sculptures, painting or reading!

Through guided drawing and painting, group brainstorms, games and by analyzing the books and movies we love, I will guide learners to explore and discuss a variety of storytelling principles like character development and narrative arcs, as well as art principles like gesture drawing, composition, color theory, light theory, visual storytelling and more. 

If your kid is into beautiful chaos (aka being able to express themselves, find their voices, find value in collaboration and mutual support), where kids get to keep their mics ON (aka learn how to listen to others and value other opinions and perspectives), and don’t mind unpredictable outcomes (aka learn that being creative is a process not an end result when you’re learning), then maybe they’ll like my Outschool classes. 

All my classes are actively anti-racist, LGBTQIA2S-celebrating, intersectionally safe spaces.