The Dirty Palette

Stories from an art educators studio.

​I know Kung Fu!

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Robert Louis Caldwell
02 August, 2020
So, my grand idea moving forward is to offer several new instructional classes a month, short classes that are only a few hours, and multi-day classes. Both of which I want to prerecord so I can offer them immediately to the students who took the live online class. I didn’t realize the tremendous...

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​End of one road and the beginning of the new one.

author
Robert Louis Caldwell
31 July, 2020
End of era, the Midlothian Art Academy sign in the county dump Well, I guess the first post on this blog should be on why we are here. It was not my intension to build an online art school platform; well, maybe that isn’t the complete truth. In 2016 I had initially thought about creating some...

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ABOUT

Welcome!



I am Robert Louis Caldwell, a professional artist and educator who has been instructing students in drawing and painting classes since 2010. I love what I do and love sharing that with my students. Over the years, I have gone from teaching a few students in a small classroom to a large two-room teaching studio with multiple instructors. In 2016, I opened the doors to my own art studio, which grew into Midlothian Art Academy. Unfortunately, the academy fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic and closed in July.


Not one to stand around and wait, I pushed forward and found a way to instruct online from my own studio to my students in theirs. As I built this new online platform, I thought it would be nice to have a place to share the stories of my art, classroom instruction, techniques notes and funny anecdotes from some of my wonderful students.


I hope you follow along as this new journey unveils itself.