Alana Judah Art

What a career fair can teach us about teaching art

What a Career Fair Can Teach Us About Teaching Art Today was my fourth year participating in the COSMOS career fair at Mitchell High School, connecting with students from Mitchell, Orleans, and Shoals…

He Didn’t Just Finish a Painting… He Built a Series 🖤

Brent has been building something seriously cool over the past several months… and today he added another piece to the collection. He just finished his Munsters house and car to go alongside his Munst…

1 Year of Artistic Growth

Petra painted her first painting with me in March of 2025, a fox in the snow. One year later, Match 2026, she completed another fox painting. This time in a snowy forest. The difference isn’t talent.…

Don’t Just Study It. Change It

Ben is one of my students that has been taking private painting lessons from me for a few years now. He got to stand in front of the original American Gothic in Chicago… …and then came back to the stu…

I think it’s done? 🐕

I think my memorial portrait of Ava is complete, but I haven’t signed it yet. She was a good girl who loved tennis balls and keep rides! These are my photo references. Completed painting

What Teaching Art Really Looks Like

Yeah… this happened. We’ve had a hamster visit, danced the Macarena, splattered paint with toothbrushes, gotten paint on the studio dogs, played with the hedgehog… and somehow still had a painting les…

Dog Portrait Update (almost done)

I got quite a bit of work done today. I finished the treat can and the tennis balls. I also haven’t Ava’s eyes, nose and paws finished. I just need to finish her body, collar and name tag. The next ti…

10 year old paints Stranger Things portrait

My 10 year old niece visited for her spring break and we painted this portrait of Eleven. She wants to do a whole series of Stranger things paintings for her room. The title of this piece is: Breakfas…

Portrait Update

A sinus infection tried to take me out, but here’s where I’m at with the portrait of Ava.

When plans go awry 😝

Let’s talk about the real stuff for a minute… What’s something that didn’t go as planned in your art room recently? A lesson that flopped A project that got chaotic A moment where you thought, “well……