The Lesson Library
Ayesa teaches from a studio library of original lessons spanning many techniques and science themes. This is a sampling — the science each lesson teaches, the art it's built on, and how the session flows. The library grows as she teaches.
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Free to explore Moon Phases
Students become Moon explorers — learning how the Moon travels around Earth, why it seems to change shape, and why it shines at all — then create a glowing night-sky artwork of the phases in oil pastel on black paper.
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Free to explore Aurora Borealis
How the Northern Lights form — and why they glow green, red, and purple — captured in blended oil pastel; auroras over the Seattle skyline, Mt. Rainier, and an orca in the Puget Sound.
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Free to explore Starfish
The biology of sea stars meets the physics of light through water — students paint a sun-dappled sea and a dimensional starfish using only three watercolor paints, water displacement for the light flecks, and reflected color for volume.
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Each lesson below shows what it covers and how it begins. Sessions are taught from the library, shaped for the audience — and students get full online access to the lessons they're taught.
Library lesson Feathers & Scales
Feathers, scales, and the magic of convergent evolution — how different animals grew similar coverings to survive — expressed in an oil-pastel-resist watercolor painting.
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Library lesson My House in the Woods
A magical journey to discover shapes in nature — round tree canopies like green umbrellas, an A-shaped roof, branching Y trunks — drawn and painted into a woodland home scene.
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Library lesson Orcas
Pacific Northwest orca anatomy and ecology — the whales that share the Puget Sound with us — illustrated in bold, high-contrast ink.
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Library lesson Beetles
A world with beetles — anatomy, metamorphosis, rhinoceros and stag beetles, and real cutting-edge insect research — drawn in the tradition of scientific line art.
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Library lesson Monitor Lizard & Aboriginal Art
Varanus lizards from around the world — goanna, goh, biawak — meet Australian Aboriginal art traditions in a respectful, meditative dot painting session.
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